Social media giant Facebook, which has had a small New York City presence since 2007, will be expanding its operations to include engineers, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced Friday afternoon at a press conference at the company’s midtown offices. It will begin hiring engineers in January, she said, and the company is already accepting applications—on Facebook. The No. 2 official in the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company was flanked by Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Sen. Chuck Schumer, who hailed the decision as a turning point in New York’s efforts to establish itself as a world-class center of information technology.
Facebook currently has 100 employees in New York, working in advertising sales, global recruiting and running the company’s global marketing operations. The city will now become the company’s only engineering outpost away from the West Coast.
“From our touch-points on Madison Avenue to around the world, New York has been a really important home for us,” Ms. Sandberg said. “Today we have a very important announcement to make, which is that we are expanding our efforts in New York so we can also do engineering.”
She said the company had not determined how many engineers it would hire, and she declined to give estimates. “We will hire as much talent as we can find,” she said.
The company’s global head of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, promised that New York would have a major role.
“For us this isn’t a satellite office,” he said. “This will be a key part of our engineering stack.”
The decision to branch out to New York followed the development of an engineering center in Seattle last year that has proved a success for the company. After that, Mr. Schroepfer said, Facebook looked around for another place that could offer the “smartest, most entrepreneurial engineers.”
“We did a pretty detailed analysis and decided the best place by a wide margin would be New York City,” he said.
The move comes as Facebook is making more deals with media companies, many of them headquartered in New York. A recent revamp of the platform was designed to make it more competitive with Google and Amazon in offering access to movies, music, news and other content.
Facebook will have competition from Google, which has 2,500 employees in New York, about half of them engineers. But the newcomer will be going public next year and can offer stakes in the company to top-flight talent.
For Mr. Bloomberg, Facebook’s move demonstrated the progress the city has made in fostering the tech sector.
“[It’s] conclusive proof that we are well on our way to achieving our goal, which is to become the world’s No. 1 hub of information technology and social media,” he said.
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