Recent job listings seem to indicate that Amazon.com is thinking about expanding its same-day delivery program around the globe.
The job postings underline the importance of fast shipping to its ability to compete with services offered by brick-and-mortar stores.
The U.S. online retailer is also considering adding a same-day delivery option on all items sold by third-party merchants on its site. If that option is added, some logistics experts said it could help offset the high costs of speedy, last-mile delivery.
At least seven listings for senior product and marketing jobs based at the company's headquarters in Seattle have been posted online recently.
"Our long-term vision is that customers can order and receive a sellers' product the same day anywhere in the world," according to one job posting from October.
Amazon hasn't commented how it plans to meet its goals and how it would extend same-day delivery to more third-party sellers, who account for nearly 40 percent of items sold on Amazon's website.
Amazon currently offers same-day delivery in a little over a dozen U.S. cities, charging users $5.99 for members of its Prime program while non-Prime members pay $8.99.
The company started offering same-day delivery in the U.K. with newspaper delivery company Connect Group.
A senior product manager role was posted on Tuesday calling for a candidate to shape the future of same-day delivery and "drive large worldwide projects with huge customer-facing and financial impact."
Amazon rivals like eBay have pared back their same-day projects, citing still-unproven consumer demand, according to Reuters. Google expanded its same-day delivery service this year however, as well as on-demand delivery startups such as Postmates and Instacart.
Getting more third-party sellers to provide same-day delivery could help Amazon offset the high costs of offering fast shipping and building new warehouses in large urban locations however, according to a survey by RBC Capital Markets.
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