Despite striking out on its bid for HQ2, Colorado won't whiff entirely on landing jobs from Amazon.
Amazon announced an expansion of its Denver Tech Hub, with plans to create 400 new jobs in software and hardware engineering, cloud computing and advertising.
To accommodate these hiring plans, Amazon will open a new office in the city, joining the company’s Boulder office which opened last fall. This expansion will allow Amazon to more than double its tech workforce in the Denver area.
“We’re excited to continue to grow and invest in the Denver area,” said Dave Wood, site lead for Amazon’s Denver Tech Hub. “Our new office will offer our teams the convenience of a downtown location with an array of outdoor adventures just up the road.”
Amazon’s new 98,000 square foot office will be located at 1515 Wynkoop St. in the LoDo neighborhood.
“I’m so excited that Amazon is adding 400 more jobs in Colorado. We have a terrific workforce that continues to attract the ideas and businesses that thrive in a knowledge-based economy and we are a great place to do business,” said Gov. Jared Polis. “Amazon’s current Colorado presence spans from distribution centers to robotics, corporate and operations. It’s wonderful to see their continued investment in our community.”
Amazon already has more than 350 employees in the Denver area and 3,500 across the state, primarily in customer fulfillment and retail facilities.
This hiring announcement mirrors a similar one that brought 800 jobs to Austin in March. In the aftermath of the HQ2 decision, Amazon has made an effort to beef up its workforce in the emerging tech hubs that lost out.
In addition to HQ1 in Seattle and HQ2 in Arlington, Amazon has 17 of these smaller Tech Hubs across North American, with more than 20,000 employees in total.
