Stephenie Landry

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Stephenie Landry
Occupation
  • Businessperson
  • Online retail executive
Known forCreating Prime Now
TitleVice President, Amazon Grocery

Stephenie Landry is an American business executive and vice president of Amazon. [1] She is in charge of Amazon Prime Now and AmazonFresh, and she previously led Amazon Restaurants before the service was discontinued in 2019. [2] She led the creation and launch of many other Amazon initiatives, such as Amazon Student, Amazon Mom, and Prime Pantry. [3]

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Education

Landry earned a Women's Studies degree from Wellesley College and attended business school at the University of Michigan. [4]

Career

Landry first came to Amazon as an intern in 2003 while she was attending business school, and she became a full-time Amazon employee in 2004. [1] She started in operations, including work on logistics, transportation, supply chain, customer service, and warehousing, and she went on to create products that heavily leveraged operations. [4] Landry held a series of jobs of increasing responsibility and in 2013, she became a Technical Advisor to Jeff Wilke, who at the time ran Amazon's worldwide consumer business and was considered one of Amazon’s most powerful executives. [1] In 2014, Landry went on to write a detailed memo outlining the idea for Prime Now, and the service launched 111 days later. [5]

Recognition

Wired named Landry to its "Next List 2016," as one of "25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business." [6] Landry was also named to the 2021 and 2022 Fast Company Queer 50 list. [7] [8]

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