{"id":95126,"date":"2017-10-19T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=95126"},"modified":"2017-10-19T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:59:18","slug":"shopify-creates-hundreds-of-new-jobs-with-waterloo-expansion","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/shopify-creates-hundreds-of-new-jobs-with-waterloo-expansion","title":{"rendered":"Shopify Creates Hundreds of New Jobs with Waterloo Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just 18 months into <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/09\/09\/shopify-waterloo-office-historic-distillery\" target=\"_blank\">Shopify\u2019s bet<\/a> on the Kitchener-Waterloo region and the company is already looking to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Shopify announced a new Waterloo expansion today which will create 300 to 500 new jobs over the next 2 to 3 years for their <em>Plus<\/em> operations. Shopify Plus is made up of sales, creative, product and technical teams. They are dedicated specifically to servicing Shopify\u2019s high-profile and higher volume merchants with sales ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to a billion dollars per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a really great migration of merchants onto the Shopify Plus platform which has driven a lot of our growth over the last couple of years, and it is driving our expansion here in the region,\u201d said Loren Padelford, a general manager with Shopify Plus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look to hire a number of entry-level people, all the way to senior executive level talent \u2013 our team now is building software that is solving really complex problems for very large and complex businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was September 2016 when Padelford cut the ribbon on the <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/10\/19\/killer-spaces-shopify-waterloo\" target=\"_blank\">Shopify\u2019s stunning 45,000-square-foot Waterloo Office<\/a>; a turn-of-the-century whiskey distillery. Over the last year, the team has grown from 50 to more than 250 today, filling up the current office and forcing the new team into an additional 55,000 square feet in the neighboring 85 Willis Way. Just 70 meters from the Distillery office, Shopify is creating its own campus feel in their corner of Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>Padelford attributes the company\u2019s rapid growth to the high-quality talent pool in the corridor. He&#8217;s hoping this expansion not only keeps young talent in the area, but also attracts global talent and welcomes Canadian expats back home from their tech tours abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe originally selected Waterloo because of the great talent pool and that\u2019s allowed us to grow much faster than we anticipated. The corridor between Kitchener, Waterloo and Toronto continues to be, from my perspective, one of the greatest technical corridors in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The office is expected to open in early 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 18 months into Shopify\u2019s bet on the Kitchener-Waterloo region and the company is already looking to grow. Shopify announced a new Waterloo expansion today which will create 300 to 500 new jobs over the next 2 to 3 years for their Plus operations. 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