Amazon opens three new offices in Romania and creates 500 jobs

9 March 2021 • Article

 Amazon opens three new offices in Romania and creates 500 jobs

Amazon, with 2,500 employees in Romania announced it is preparing to add by the end of the year another 500 permanent roles available in its offices in the country and intends to open a new office in Timisoara and two more in Iasi.

The Timișoara office, scheduled to open in the second quarter of the year (Q2 / 2021), will focus on the Amazon Devices line, which will also include Ring security devices, and will be the place where products and services will be developed and launched. innovative. The new office in Iasi will open at the end of the year on the current campus and will be the first to host the Retail Business Support department – which ensures that Amazon products and their availability are optimized for customers and at the same time supports sales partners and teams dedicated to product categories. In 2023, Amazon will move to Palas Campus in Iasi, where the entire local team will be strengthened. The new Palas Campus office will host Compliance Ops, Retail Business Support, Creative Ops & Production, Imaging Support, Customer Behavior Analytics, Information Security & Privacy, Compliance Tech, AWS Global IT and Content Creation Tools. Amazon and the AWS division are already operating in the Bucharest office, which hosts the Engineering Center, Technology Development, Speech and Language Solutions for Alexa teams, as well as Alexa Product Testing. Here the teams are responsible for developing technological solutions and optimizing Amazon’s operations.

“We are very happy to open new offices and add another 500 jobs in Timisoara and Iasi. The new offices come with many opportunities for software and operations professionals who will have the chance to innovate and improve our products and services that support Amazon customers around the world. In the future, our growing teams will benefit from modern office buildings with the best quality facilities and improved collaboration and support. We are delighted that we can continue our investments in Romania and proud of the impact we have in Timisoara, Iasi and Bucharest by recruiting the best professionals in the country and in the world,” said Octavian Tanase, General Manager, Amazon Romania.

Recruitment for positions in Bucharest and Iasi is underway, and those interested are invited to access the page romania.amazon.com. All selected candidates will receive attractive salary packages and extensive benefits, including private health insurance and life insurance. Amazon has been investing in Romania for a long time. In 2005, the company opened its first office in Romania and invested over EUR 100 million, developing state-of-the-art technologies and providing an unparalleled shopping experience for its customers around the world. Amazon was named Number 2 in the World’s Best Employers 2020 catalog by Forbes and Best Brand in the Workers´ Choice 2019 ranking by market research firm YouGov.

Source: Outsourcing Today