Overview
- Effective in March, Dharmesh Mehta will become CEO Andy Jassy’s technical advisor, a role often referred to internally as the CEO’s “shadow.”
- Amit Agarwal expands his remit to lead Selling Partner Services and Customer Trust alongside International Emerging Stores, reporting to Worldwide Stores chief Doug Herrington.
- Alex Dunlap, Jassy’s current technical advisor, will move to a new leadership role within Amazon to be announced.
- Independent sellers now account for about 62% of units sold in Amazon’s store, and the third-party marketplace generated $42.5 billion in revenue last quarter.
- During Mehta’s tenure leading seller services, Amazon intensified anti-counterfeit and fraud efforts, rolled out logistics and generative AI tools, and ended inventory commingling, a shift the company estimates will save brand owners $600 million annually.