Amazon is on a Hiring Spree in LatAm

Amazon is dominating Big Tech’s expansion into Latin America. On Monday, it had 2,123 open roles (including AWS) across the region. The company is famous for being a great source of talent and has invested heavily to earn that reputation. Last month, it revealed it would more than double the max base salary in the US from $160K to $350K to remain competitive in the talent market.

A less known fact is that it’s also been expanding its data center presence in LatAm. We were surprised to see so many open roles for its AWS (Amazon Web Services) division, headed by Jaime Valles. The division was originally created as Amazon’s response to an internal need to scale cloud computing infrastructure and continue growing. Instead of hiring a company to provide tech services for Amazon, it decided to turn a necessity into a product, and it now brings about $16B in revenues for the company each quarter.

Microsoft’s LatAm division, headed by Rodrigo Kede Lima, is also betting big in the data center space and talent. According to its website, it has 52 data centers around Latin America. Most recently, it announced plans to invest $317M in a new data center in Chile.

To give you a taste of Amazon’s opportunities, we featured one of their positions we think is perfect for our audience below. We’ll be thrilled to learn if one of our readers gets it!

This is our new section in which we hand-select an exciting job opportunity, based on what we know about our audience (e.g., industries, job functions).

This week’s opportunity:

Amazon is looking for a Catalog Lead for its Mexico City office.

Requirements: Data-driven person with 1+ year of experience in buying, account management, operations, project management, sales, or marketing.

What you’ll do: Handle relationships with vendors.

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