Today is a special episode as we're here at Amazon Accelerate and for the first time ever having somebody from the Amazon Vine program to answer all the questions you've got about the program.

How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think. Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the series sellers podcast by Helium 10.

I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that is actually a special episode

as we are here at Amazon Accelerate.

And for the first time ever, we've got somebody from the Amazon Vine program who's gonna answer all of the questions that you submitted for this program. And let me go ahead and introduce her now, Ami. Thank you for joining us. How are you feeling today? I'm feeling great. Thank you for having me over here. Thank you for being here. Now, this, we've done a little over 500 episodes now. Oh, that's awesome. But is this your first podcast episode that you are doing? This is my first podcast. I've got the privilege of being the host on your very first of, I'm sure, many podcasts. What I like to do with guests when they come on the show for the first time is just get a little backstory. So you actually were born and raised in India? That's right. What part? Mumbai. Mumbai? Okay, excellent. Now, I do a little bit of Zumba dancing on the side. I've done some Bangra moves. So we might have to collaborate on some moves a little bit later. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. I love dancing. Now, growing up, do you do dancing, What do you think you were going to be when you got to this age? That's interesting. I did do a lot of dancing. I am a classically trained dancer. I didn't know that. I just pulled that out of nowhere. It was true. All right, excellent. Yeah, it's just something I did it. So I did that for eight years. And what I wanted to become, I think I wanted to do this is just be in the business. I mean, I'm in the business. That's what I thought I would do. Did you go to university there in India? Yeah, I did a couple of my master's over there. And I worked for a little over close to four years where I was also running my own startup back in India and then I moved over here from my second master's and after that I've been over here at Amazon. What were you studying? What was your major? Management. Management, okay. Yeah. And so you kind of got into the entrepreneurial life a little bit with your own startup over there. Yeah, that's right, which is why I love working for sellers.

And when you came here to America, is that when you started working at Amazon?

Yeah, that's right. I came here, I did my MBA at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

A Wolverine?

Yes. Okay, okay. All right. So then coming to Amazon, what was your first position?

So I started my career at Amazon as a senior product manager on the listings team.

And my responsibility there was to build seller-facing listing tools that helps them list easily on Amazon.

So I did that for a little under two years.

And then I moved into the selling performance team

where I was responsible for building a bunch of tools,

including ML models and experiences

that ensures customer trust in the shopping experience on Amazon.

And right after that, I moved to Seller University,

and in Seller University, we just were responsible for building tools

that ensures sellers know how to sell on Amazon and make the most of the Amazon

store and right now I'm in the brand experience and excellence team where I lead

bunch of programs that helps brands list helps brands drive success on Amazon store,

and one of the programs is wine, which is why I'm here today.

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