{"id":20788,"date":"2015-10-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?post_type=sf_press_release&#038;p=20788"},"modified":"2020-09-29T21:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T21:13:50","slug":"salesforce-plans-to-double-seattle-area-workforce-open-new-office","status":"publish","type":"sf_press_release","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/press-releases\/2015\/10\/26\/salesforce-plans-to-double-seattle-area-workforce-open-new-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Plans To Double Seattle Area Workforce, Open New Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s fastest growing top 10 software company to make new Bellevue office one of the company\u2019s largest engineering hubs globally<br \/> <br \/> SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2015\u2014Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform<br \/> and world&#8217;s #1 CRM company, today announced plans to double its workforce in the Seattle area. The company is expanding its team of highly skilled enterprise software engineers in the Seattle area, which will become one of the company\u2019s largest engineering hubs globally.<br \/> <br \/> To accommodate its growth, Salesforce announced plans to open a new Seattle-area office in Bellevue, WA. Salesforce\u2019s new Bellevue office will be located at the Nine Two Nine Office Tower building, where the company will be the largest tenant.<br \/> <br \/> Comments on the News: <br \/> &quot;The Seattle area is home to some of the most talented enterprise software engineers in the world,\u201d said Parker Harris, co-founder, Salesforce. \u201cThat\u2019s why we are doubling down on our investment in the Seattle area, which will be a key innovation hub for the company.\u201d<br \/> &quot;We are proud and delighted Salesforce has chosen Bellevue for its expansion in the Puget Sound region,&quot; said Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci. &quot;I want to thank Salesforce for bringing hundreds of new jobs to the region and for solidifying Bellevue as an important global hub for technology and innovation.&quot;<br \/> <br \/> Salesforce: Fastest-Growing Top 10 Software Company<br \/> Salesforce is the 6th largest software company and the fastest growing top 10 software company in the world today. Companies of every size and industry rely on the Salesforce Customer Success Platform to help them connect with their customers in a whole new way. <br \/> <br \/> Over the last 16 years, Salesforce has expanded and redefined CRM, bringing social, mobile, data science and IoT technologies to its trusted cloud platform, enabling companies to grow sales faster, deliver customer service everywhere, create 1:1 customer journeys, engage with customers in interactive communities, deliver analytics for every business user and build modern mobile apps fast. <br \/> <br \/> Additional Information<br \/> \u2022 Find your #dreamjob: http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/company\/careers\/ <br \/> \u2022 Follow @Salesforce on Twitter<br \/> \u2022 Like Salesforce.com on Facebook: http:\/\/facebook.com\/salesforce <br \/> <br \/> ###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s fastest growing top 10 software company to make new Bellevue office one of the company\u2019s largest engineering hubs globally SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"sf_subhead":"World\u2019s fastest growing top 10 software company to make new Bellevue office one of the company\u2019s largest engineering hubs globally SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.","sf_i18n_disclaimer":false,"alternateThumbnailId":0,"sf_product_cta_id":0,"footnotes":""},"sf_content_type":[1755,1776],"sf_theme":[1915],"sf_topic":[1732,1763,1778],"sf_product":[],"sf_industry":[],"sf_role":[],"sf_multimedia_asset":[],"sf_location":[1724],"sf_collection":[],"sf_visibility":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20788","sf_press_release","type-sf_press_release","status-publish","hentry","sf_content_type-press-releases","sf_content_type-press-releases-corporate","sf_theme-future-of-work","sf_topic-future-of-work","sf_topic-innovation","sf_topic-real-estate","sf_location-amer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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