SEATTLE — Jobs in e-commerce technology, cloud computing, and machine learning will be the focus of 3,000 new hires planned in Vancouver by Amazon.
The company today announced it will expand its Vancouver, B.C. high tech hub, building a 416,000 square foot development centre in Vancouver. Today’s announcement is the latest milestone in the company’s ongoing job creation in Canada, where it already employs over 6,000 people, says the company’s press release.
“Amazon is excited to create 3,000 more highly-skilled jobs in Vancouver,” said Alexandre Gagnon, vice-president of Amazon Canada and Mexico. “Vancouver is home to an incredibly talented and diverse workforce, and these thousands of new employees will invent on behalf of our customers worldwide.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson were also at the event.
Amazon currently employs more than 1,000 researchers and engineers in Vancouver, primarily creating new products and services for the company’s international retail business and Amazon Web Services (AWS), says the company’s release. Additionally in Vancouver, the human resources technology team helps build the HR, recruiting and employee management software systems that support Amazon’s global workforce of over 560,000 employees.
Amazon will expand into a brand new location in QuadReal’s The Post redevelopment when the project opens in 2022. This is in addition to Amazon’s current Vancouver offices – including its 156,000 square foot location in Telus Garden which opened to Amazon employees in 2015. On top of today’s announcement, Amazon also confirmed last November its plans to expand into another downtown site on Dunsmuir Street, which will open in 2020. The company expects to grow to 5,000 corporate employees in Vancouver in the coming years across all of its locations in the city.
