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Interior Design for Workspaces: Tech Companies
Key Takeaways
- In 2019, Glassdoor, an online platform that connects jobs and companies, announced that it would open its first Canadian office.
- Pinterest, with offices in 23 different locations, has a total of 2,200 employees. This company announced in 2021 that it will be opening an additional office in downtown Toronto.
- Doordash, a technology company that facilitates door-to-door delivery, will start off its Canadian office with a 50-person team.
Introduction
This report presents 5 tech companies headquartered in the US or other regions that are already operational in Canada and/or are looking to set up new offices there to expand their footprint. For each, we have provided company information, insight into the new offices in Canada, and contact information. The number of employees for each company is above 1,000 and we have provided the contact information for at least one individual and the general company information, as is publicly and readily available.
- Pinterest is an online visual discovery engine that is headquartered in San Francisco and has 23 other additional locations: Chicago, Hamburg, Madrid, Munich, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Singapore, Atlanta, Detroit, London, Mexico City, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Sydney, Toronto, Berlin, Dublin, Los Angeles, Milan, Ogden, Portland, Seattle, and Tokyo. According to an article released in June 2021, Pinterest will be opening an additional office in downtown Toronto. The first 50 employees in this new location will have engineering, sales, insights, and marketing roles.
- Across these locations, Pinterest has over 2,200 employees. Following its first entry into Canada in 2018, this new location will be the second office in Canada.
- The research team was unable to find the contact information for the Facility Manager, Operations Director, Real Estate Director, or Operations Director. For this reason, the research team provided at least one individual with a similar role. Caitlin Neve is the Partner Manager in Canada and Jessica Sears is the Account Manager. The company's contact information is provided below:
- Phone number: 1-415-762-7100.
Cloudflare
- Cloudflare is a global cloud platform that deals with website infrastructure and website security company. It is headquartered in San Francisco and has 16 locations across the globe: Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. This company announced that it is going to open its first Canadian office. The COO made this announcement during an online conference.
- Although this company has not shared its current count of employees, company profile databases such as Craft.co and Zoominfo provide an estimate. As per the instructions (more than 1,000 employees), this company has about 1,697 employees.
- The research team was unable to find the contact information for the Facility Manager, Operations Director, Real Estate Director, or Operations Director. For this reason, the research team provided at least one individual with a similar role. Clyde Noronha is the Account Executive for the Canada office. He does not provide his phone number or email address on his LinkedIn account. Here is the company's phone number for the company.
- Phone number: +44 20 3514 6970
Doordash
- Doordash is a technology company that facilitates door-to-door delivery and is located across 60 cities. This company is headquartered in San Francisco and is in the process of opening its very first international engineering office in Canada. This Toronto location will start off with a 50-person team that will take on front-end, backend, and mobile roles. This experience will assist in expanding the company's experience in different currencies, languages, and address different cultures.
- Although this company has not shared its current count of employees, company profile databases such as Craft.co and Zoominfo provide an estimate. As per the instructions (more than 1,000 employees), this company has about 3,279 employees.
- The research team was unable to find the contact information for the Facility Manager, Operations Director, Real Estate Director, or Operations Director. For this reason, the research team provided at least one individual with a similar role. We were unable to find individuals with these roles in the Canada office and had to provide individuals from the US locations. Kolton Reynolds is the Operations Manager in New York. Jared Africk is the Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations. Unfortunately, they do not provide their phone number or email address on their LinkedIn account.
- Email: support@doordash.com
- Phone Number: +1-855-973-1040
Xero
- Xero is cloud-based accounting software for small businesses. Xero has 17 offices across 8 countries and is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, and South Africa. Since its entry into the Canadian market in 2018, Xero has acquired Hubdoc.
- Across its 17 offices, this company has over 3,500 employees. Xero has been establishing its presence in Canada and has recently named its Toronto office "the company’s North American hub for product development and technology innovation." The company plans to increase its influence in Canada.
- The research team was unable to find the contact information for the Facility Manager, Operations Director, Real Estate Director, or Operations Director. For this reason, the research team provided at least one individual with a similar role. Nick Cowan is the Head of Commercial Operations in New Zealand.
- Xero does not provide a phone number that one can call. On their website, they state that any number found online claiming to belong to Xero is fraudulant. As such, we have provided the link to their contact method that has been availed.
Glassdoor
- Glassdoor is an online platform that connects jobs, companies, and individuals while providing helpful insights. It is headquartered in San Francisco. This company has locations across three states: Illinois, Ohio, California. In August 2019, the company announced that it would open its first Canada office in downtown Toronto.
- According to Crunchbase, this brand has between 501 and 1,000 employees. The research team included this company because we can estimate that the employee count could exceed 1,000 by 2021. Although this information is not readily available, the most recent and most accurate report of the employee count was presented on CNBC in 2018, which read 750 employees.
- The research team was unable to find the contact information for the Facility Manager, Operations Director, Real Estate Director, or Operations Director. For this reason, the research team provided at least one individual with a similar role. Kate Prebil is the Senior Enterprise Account Manager.
Research Strategy
For this research on Interior Design for Workspaces: Tech Companies, we leveraged the most reputable sources of information that were available in the public domain, including Invest Ontario, Business Insider, and LinkedIn.