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The company, which announced last year it was opening a second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, has posted five job listings. The positions are for a few global category managers, a senior financial analyst and a human resource specialist. The company said these employees will"help build the foundation of our workforce and workplace."The tech giant said it's on pace to create 400 new jobs this year as part of a total of 25,000 over the next decade or so.
An additional building is scheduled to open in the fall.Two vice presidents, Ardine Williams, vice president of workforce development, and Rob Pulciani, vice president of Alexa, are also relocating from Seattle to start building their teams.Amazon's expansion will make it one of the biggest employers in the region, and finding workers could be a challenge given the tight labor market. The search for a second location for Amazon headquarters started in 2017 and took more than a year.
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