Amid news of belt tightening and layoffs, the city's tech sector is in need of workers—at least 4,000 of them.
Tech:NYC, the membership organization representing the local tech industry, has launched a job board to compile all open positions in one place. The board brings together positions from member companies that can be performed in the city—whether they are officially based here or fully remote.
“The quantity and scope of positions available on the Tech:NYC Jobs Board is a testament to the growth and continued economic opportunity provided by New York City’s tech ecosystem,” said Julie Samuels, president and executive director of Tech:NYC.
Tech:NYC launches job search site with thousands of local positions
The organization’s goal was to create a single place for job seekers in tech who wanted to live in the city to look for jobs. The site, created by local tech company Getro, crawls job listings on companies’ websites, which keeps it up to date; recruiting teams do not have to actively monitor the listings or take them down when they are filled. Tech:NYC is then able to set filters to make sure that an Amazon job, for example, can be done locally and is not pegged to a Seattle desk.
Young people in the city's Summer Youth Employment Program worked on the site with Getro.
There are 3,837 positions listed at 722 companies. Tech:NYC hopes to add postings from even more local firms, regardless of whether they are members of the industry group. Filling the positions should not be a problem, said Evan Walden, CEO and founder of Getro. “Four thousand jobs at the most interesting startups in New York City?” he said. “I don’t think it will be a problem.” Although the full impact of large tech company layoffs in the city is as yet unclear, Tech:NYC’s director of communications, Tyler Bugg, said the open jobs should be a reassuring sign for people looking for work.
Some of the member firms with open positions have indeed recently announced large layoffs. Amazon, for example, has 91 open city jobs. Salesforce has 134 and Google, 42.
Many of the open positions are in sales, business development and engineering—"things contributing to the core business and to growing the business,” Walden said. “It feels consistent with the broader ecosystem.”
Walden added that jobs at such companies are often essential backfills, the result of normal turnover. Or they may be evidence of the latest priorities at companies in the middle of substantial strategy changes.
Open positions at Amazon include a handful in sales and business development, including an advisory partnerships manager job in a group that works with management consulting firms to implement cloud computing at businesses around the world. It pays up to $220,200, according to the listing. There are also several jobs at Wondery, Amazon’s podcast ad network, which is growing.
Of all companies with listings, Deloitte has the most local jobs posted, with 409 positions listed. Yahoo, Salesforce and Bloomberg have more than 100 each. Amazon, open-source software firm Grafana Labs, Zillow, cloud-monitoring company Datadog, Mastercard, fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz, database platform MongoDB and Intuit each have between 50 and 100 open positions.
Walden said job searchers are still prioritizing remote work in their job searches on Getro sites.
Although the option of remote work can certainly benefit small cities with less expensive living costs, tech insiders report that New York is a common choice even for employees who could live anywhere.
“We have seen a lot of folks start remotely,” said Sarah Brown, head of enterprise at Ramp, a fintech unicorn that is based in the city but is remote-friendly. “Then they see the magic in the office and move to New York to be a part of it.”