Online retailing heavyweight Amazon’s IT service management entity is reportedly gearing towards accelerating adoption in the virtual asset sphere among its clients, with new hirings. 

Specifically, the New York office of Amazon Web Services is reportedly on the hunt for a Financial Services Specialist, who has a thorough understanding and knowledge of “the overall cryptocurrency and digital asset ecosystem”, additionally possessing experience in blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

The firm reportedly revealed that anyone taking up the role would be engaged with regulators, financial institutions, and capital market operators, to deep-dive into finding out the potential benefits from digital asset adoption.

The applicant would reportedly encourage the senior employees at top-tier international financial establishments to “transform the way they transact digital assets”, including cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, security-backed tokens, asset-backed tokens, and non-fungible tokens.

Furthermore, it is mandatory for the prospective staff member to have a minimum of seven years of experience in financial services business development “with exposure to distributed ledger or blockchain technologies.”

Amazon has been disclosing details of its human resources hunt for several positions requiring experience in the crypto asset sphere. 

In February, the online retail giant claimed it was looking for a fresh face for the management role in software development, based in Mexico, to support the introduction of “a new payment product” aimed at enabling residents to purchase crypto using cash, in order to spend digital currency while shopping on Amazon.