Featured Success Story
Ireland has really become a place where a lot of Europeans want to work and we've been very lucky in attracting great talent from all over Europe that are now working in Dublin
Featured Success Story
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Cork has become the global hub of choice for international headquarters of technology companies, home to over 100 technology companies. With over 40,000 students across Cork’s two universities, NetApp’s decision to base its international headquarters in Cork provides access to a talent pool that is truly worthy of supporting the robust and evolving technology market. As well as being a part of the vibrant emerging business scene in Cork, NetApp’s hybrid working model means there are opportunities for technical and non-technical candidates across Ireland.
ServiceNow
ServiceNow is a leading cloud-based platform whose solutions help digitise and unify organisations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. Its solutions enable employees and customers to be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. Founded in 2004, it now has a customer base of approximately 7,700 global enterprise companies including ~85% of the Fortune 500.
Arriving and expanding in Ireland
In 2018, ServiceNow established a Development Centre in Dublin, creating 30 jobs across cloud operations, engineering and legal activities. The following year, the company began expanding its team in Dublin by setting up a multilingual support centre.In 2021, ServiceNow announced it was creating at least 300 jobs in Ireland over the next three years. The roles were entirely brand-new, permanent positions, primarily in engineering, natural language understanding, internationalization and sales, and offered a span from early in career opportunities, all the way up to senior international roles.
Doubling down on Ireland
In June 2022, ServiceNow signed a 12-year lease for four floors of a new development in Dublin city, giving it room to expand. That office is expected to open early in 2024.Today, Ireland is one of ServiceNow’s largest international locations and the leading cloud based platform has continued to grow across the EMEA region as more enterprises seek to harness the power of its platform to meet their digital needs and help them work faster and more efficiently.
It employs over 400 people in Dublin, with 46 nationalities represented across the workforce. Employees are located across 24 counties, though the majority are based at its office in the capital. This culture has been recognised as one of Ireland’s Best Workplaces in Tech 2023.
In June 2023, ServiceNow announced plans to double ServiceNow’s staff numbers in Ireland to 800, which will enable ServiceNow to continue innovating solutions, like generative AI functionality that bring IT and business together to create ‘exponential enterprises’ and operate as one company.
How Ireland Helps ServiceNow
- Rapid ramp-up from 30 staff in 2018
- 400+ employees in Ireland, set to double by 2026
- Ireland is an EMEA Hub with team members across all functions
- 40+ nationalities represented in Irish-based workforce
We think that Ireland has really become the gateway to the European Union. There’s so many things that US companies gain from their relationship with Ireland.
