Graeme Smith, managing director for Amazon Development Centre Scotland, said: “These highly skilled jobs join our incredibly talented teams in Scotland and provide exciting opportunities for those who want to be at the cutting edge of global technology.
The majority are for highly-skilled roles across a range of professions, from software developers and machine learning specialists, to applied sciences and product managers.Įdinburgh was Amazon’s first research and development centre outside of North America and it has become a global centre for innovation, software engineering and machine learning. Fellow Big Tech firms Meta and Google have also revealed plans to reduce costs.Amazon has announced it is hiring for 100 tech and corporate jobs in Scotland. He added that the changes would benefit Amazon’s business and customers as the firm finds “a way to do more for customers at a lower cost.”Īmazon is one of a number of tech firms to announce headcount changes in recent months. “These changes will help us pursue our long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure,” he wrote. Jassy highlighted this was a response to the uncertain economy and the company’s rapid hiring in recent years. Plans to cut staff were revealed in a blog post written by Andy Jassy, the Harvard MBA who took over as chief executive from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in early 2021. Sales via Amazon’s online store fell in 2022 amid a cost-of-living crisis and post-pandemic drop in ecommerce, while supply chain issues contributed to rising costs. Most will occur in Amazon’s human resources division-referred to internally as People, Experience and Technology (PXT)-and the Amazon Stores unit housing its ecommerce business. Staff cuts will fall within the corporate business-rather than warehouses or physical stores. The world’s fifth largest company revealed on Wednesday that “just over 18,000” staff would leave as it aims to reduce costs. Amazon plans to cut 18,000 employees from its workforce in early 2023.
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