According to a recent job posting, Amazon's payments
acceptance and experience team is seeking to hire an "experienced product
leader to develop Amazon's Digital Currency and Blockchain strategy and product
roadmap."
"You will leverage your domain expertise in Blockchain,
Distributed Ledger, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Cryptocurrency to
develop the case for the capabilities which should be developed, drive overall
vision and product strategy, and gain leadership buy-in and investment for new
capabilities," according to the job posting, which was previously reported
by Insider.
Amazon confirmed the job posting.
An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement: "We're
inspired by the innovation happening in the cryptocurrency space and are exploring
what this could look like on Amazon. We believe the future will be built on new
technologies that enable modern, fast, and inexpensive payments, and hope to
bring that future to Amazon customers as soon as possible."
The company's cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services,
offers a service called managed blockchain. But Amazon doesn't accept any
cryptocurrencies as payment for its products. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (then CEO
of AWS) said in 2017 that the company wasn't particularly focused on blockchain
technology, though he acknowledged Amazon was "watching it
carefully."
Digital currencies like bitcoin have grown in popularity in
recent years, leading to more institutional adoption. Technology companies have
also warmed up to cryptocurrency, including Facebook, which has backed a
digital currency project called Diem.
In May, Apple said it was looking to hire a lead negotiator
to strike partnerships with "alternative payments" partners, listing
cryptocurrency as one area of potential job expertise.
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