Business & Tech
YouTube to Grow San Bruno Workforce
Video sharing site says it will increase staffing by 30 percent.
YouTube, the San Bruno-based online video giant, is going on a hiring spree.
The company announced in a blog last week that it plans to boost its workforce by more than 30 percent, which at a current roster between 600-700 could mean 200 new jobs in an unforgiving economy.
“We are growing very quickly,” said Chris Dale, a company spokesman. “We are a global platform and we need to add more workers to keep up with growth.”
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Dale declined to go into further detail about how many of these positions will be based in San Bruno. The company is hiring worldwide.
YouTube’s job postings reveal that the company is looking for more than 60 positions for its San Bruno headquarters, though some of these jobs give the option of working from Mountain View or New York.
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About half of the San Bruno jobs are in advertising sales and customer support, such as a listing for an adtech quality assurance specialist. The next three biggest job categories are: software engineering, business operations and development, and marketing and communications.
Dale said it’s hard for him to say what impact the jobs will have on the San Bruno economy but it’s good news for YouTube, which expects to have its largest hiring year since it started in 2005. “We love working here and we think it's great,” he said.
The video-sharing website sees 2 billion views a day and 35 hours worth of video uploads every minute, according to the company.
The site has become an international hub for music videos—Justin Bieber’s “Baby” video has the most views of all time with nearly half a billion views—and an amusing network for viral videos like Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on a Pig).
“It’s been amazing to watch an idea become a platform that turned into a stage for hundreds of millions of people to express themselves,” said YouTube Human Resources Director Jeff Ferguson in his blog post announcing the new hires.
Google, which purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, is also predicting a major workforce increase this year of 6,000 employees around the globe.