IDA Ireland CEO, Barry O’Leary commenting on today’s announcement said “This adds to the strong flow of prominent technology and digital media announcements in Ireland in recent months. The growing cluster of cloud computing investments from the world’s leading technology companies enhances Ireland’s reputation as the Internet Capital of Europe.’’ 

‘’Ireland continues to attract leading investments from global technology companies aided by our improving competitiveness and availability of skills.’’ Concluded Mr. O’Leary.

“Salesforce.com has been investing in Ireland since 2001 and now has almost 300 employees across sales, renewals and customer success. We are now actively recruiting across all functions in Dublin and plan to fill at least 100 positions,” said Dr Steve Garnett, chairman EMEA, salesforce.com.

The company is actively recruiting to meet the demands of new business and continued growth and expansion in Ireland.  It’s creating tech-industry jobs at its European corporate sales headquarters in Sandyford, Co Dublin. The new jobs to be filled include corporate sales account executives, business development specialists, marketing as well as roles in technical IT and support and will cover all major European languages. 

“These jobs are being created in response to major growth and demand for our cloud computing services across EMEA,” commented Dr Garnett.   “The next phase in the cloud computing model is being driven from the changes that are driving the consumer web. The impact of social networking and collaboration, new mobile devices like the iPad, and the drive for real-time information are changing business expectations, the same way they have changed consumer ones.”

He added, “Ireland has played a key role in the success of salesforce.com.  We have been delighted with the calibre, flexibility and commitment of our Irish employees and we believe that Ireland continues to be a highly attractive location for high tech industries.”

The company is holding a recruitment day on Wednesday 13th October at the salesforce.com offices in Sandyford Business Park at 5.00pm.  Details about the event are available here on www.salesforce.com/openday or check out the open positions on salesforce.com/careers

Having grown substantially over the last ten years, the Dublin office is the European hub for salesforce.com’s multilingual corporate sales operation.  Salesforce.com was recognised for the second year running as one of Fortune’s 100 best places to work and named the world’s fourth fastest growing company by Fortune.

Press queries to:
Gillian Kelly, IDA Ireland Press Office
Tel: +353 1 603 4190;  gillian.kelly@ida.ie

Mary O’Brien, Simpson Financial & Technology PR,
Tel: 01-260 5300; mary@simpsonftpr.ie

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