Part of the WTIA’s mission is to grow a strong and sustainable workforce, which means we’re passionate about keeping local talent plugged into our state’s technology industry. In addition to our job board, every Wednesday we’ll be keeping you connected to Washington’s job market with the latest in local hiring news.

 

Visual Commerce Platform Curalate Raises $27M, Plans to Hire for New Seattle Office

GeekWire | Taylor Soper | Feb. 3

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/visual-commerce-platform-curalate-raises-27m-plans-hire-new-seattle-office/

“Curalate, the Philadelphia-based startup that helps marketers connect visual content to commerce, has raised a $27.5 million Series C round and plans to hire up to 15 additional employees for its new Seattle office. The company already employs 15 people at its 3,400 square-foot downtown Seattle office that opened in September. It’s one of many out-of-town tech companies with satellite offices in Seattle, hoping to tap into the technical talent pool the city offers.”

Latest local job postings from Curalate

 

Company Perks Keep Getting Nicer, But Only for Some Workers

Bloomberg Business | Rebecca Greenfield | Feb. 3

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/perks-keep-getting-nicer-for-some-workers

“At Seattle-based real estate website Zillow, new moms traveling for work can have their breast milk shipped on the company’s dime. Consulting company Accenture will pay for employees to have gender reassignment surgery. Twilio, a messaging service based in San Francisco, gives workers free Kindle tablets and a $30 subscription to purchase books. These are some of the perks enjoyed by the working elite, according to Glassdoor’s list of the top 20 companies for employee benefits and perks, released on Wednesday.”

Check out the Top 20 Employee Benefits & Perks, here

Latest local job postings from Zillow

 

Placed’s Shim: Location-Based Optimization Is The ‘SEO of 2016’

GeoMarketing | David Kaplan | Feb. 1

http://www.geomarketing.com/placeds-shim-location-based-optimization-is-the-seo-of-2016

“As its celebrates its founding five years ago in Seattle, Placed is continuing to stake its claim as the advertising industry standard for in-store attribution across all devices. Part of that effort has entailed striking 100-plus deals with just about every major media buying agency and demand-side platform, but as David Shim, the company’s CEO and founder tells it, the plan for 2016 is shaping up much the same way. Placed is adding between two-and-four new partners on a weekly basis, Shim told GeoMarketing, and to keep up, the company has 50 open positions.”

Latest local job postings from Placed

 

Tech Startups Working Hard to Sell Culture that Job Hunters Will Buy Into

Seattle Times | Rachel Lerman | Jan. 30

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/tech-startups-working-to-sell-a-culture-job-hunters-will-buy/

“Dogs at work? Better parental leave? In these boom times of Seattle technology, one of the biggest challenges has been filling jobs as the demand for workers exceeds the supply of candidates…But with companies offering similar benefits and salaries that are at least competitive for their respective sizes, recruiters say the thing that sets one business apart from another is that indefinable quality: culture. Recruiters for companies of all sizes are drawing candidates by talking up that culture, emphasizing the uniqueness of a company’s technology and offering the ability to make a palpable impact on the company’s product.”

 

Seattle Company Named to Forbes Best Small Companies List

Puget Sound Business Journal | Rob Smith | Jan. 28

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2016/01/seattle-company-named-to-forbes-best-small.html

“Forbes magazine named 25 growing companies to its first-ever small companies list. Seattle-based Blink, which recorded $12 million in revenue last year and employs 70, was chosen partially because of its employee-engagement practices…Blink was named to the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list last year. Forbes rated the companies on several metrics, including their reputations as determined by industry insiders, their community contributions and their sound financial practices.”

Check out “The Best Small Companies In America, 2016,” here