Amazon is looking for experienced housekeepers, pointing to the possibility that it is experimenting with a new benefit for members of its $99 per year Prime service.
According to job postings first spotted by The Seattle Times, Amazon is seeking people with several years of experience cleaning homes and dealing with customers to help people keep up their homes. The Times spotted language saying the job involves “timesaving assistance to Amazon Prime members,” allowing for an “errand-free” home, but as of this morning references to Prime appear to be gone from the job listings.
We’ve reached out to Amazon, and will update this post when we hear back.
Amazon posted four jobs yesterday in its customer service section for “home assistants” and “cleaning technicians.” Here is a description of the home assistant job.
You will be an expert in helping Amazon customers keep up their home. You will be working with customers each day with tidying up around the home, laundry, and helping put groceries and essentials like toilet paper and paper towels away. You will assure that customers return to an errand-free home.
And cleaning technician:
Amazon is looking for a self-driven cleaning professional who has an obsession with Customer satisfaction and a passion for making a house feel like a home. The cleaning technician will be responsible for coordinating the weekly schedule of cleanings requested by Amazon Customers along with providing transportation to and from clients’ homes.
The candidate must be highly motivated, detail oriented and carry a positive attitude at all times. Amazon will provide all the cleaning supplies needed along with a gas stipend to cover costs to and from our customer’s homes. Amazon will also provide on-site training along with benefits including Amazon stock and health insurance. If you love making a house feel like a home then this role is for you.
Amazon has been piling on the Prime benefits lately in a bid to accomplish CEO Jeff Bezos’ goal of making Prime benefits so numerous and valuable that it’s irresponsible not to be a member.
And the effort appears to be working. A recent study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that Amazon is up to 65 million Prime members, more than half of its U.S. customer base.
