Q&A with Ciara Calleja, experience program manager for Game Growth

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Q&A with Ciara Calleja, experience program manager for Game Growth

We caught up with Ciara Calleja, experience program manager at Game Growth, to talk about her career journey at Amazon and the exciting projects she’s been leading around Employee Experience, mental health, and people development.

Ciara, let’s start at the beginning. How did you come to work at Amazon Games?

I started my career at Amazon over six years ago as a “banista,” a banana attendant, welcoming visitors and community members and handing out bananas. I had just come back from living overseas, and wasn’t sure where I was going, but I was thankful for the opportunity to pass out positivity with potassium. While the years since have brought me a lot of challenges, it ultimately brought me to Amazon Games at the beginning of the pandemic.

Earlier this year, I was given the opportunity to start a new program within Game Growth focused on employee experience. I became the first Game Growth experience program manager, working on increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and team health in the organization; and ensuring that current and future employees are being provided an experience to learn, grow, and develop through curated programs that will make them feel like they belong. It is a completely unique job, and I helped create it! How neat is that?

You’re currently working at Game Growth, a team that’s part of Amazon Games that focuses on reimagining how game creators promote their products across the globe to reach new audiences. Tell us a bit more about that.

What Game Growth does for games and gamers is exciting! Our vision is to enable game consumers to easily find and access any game experience, for any platform, anywhere in the world. That encompasses