Though website company GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, it has a sizable presence in the Seattle area, thanks to the region's rich talent pool.
A majority of GoDaddy's 432 Washington-based employees, including much of leadership team, work out of its Kirkland office at Carillon Point, Gourav Pani, president of GoDaddy's U.S. business, told the Business Journal.
"We have a lot of engineering talent here," he said. "We do a lot of work with generative AI here and website building, tech, and also core platforms that power everything for our company."
GoDaddy also has employees in product management, marketing, public relations, finance and human resources based in Kirkland. CEO Aman Bhutani, who joined GoDaddy from Expedia in 2019, is based out of Kirkland, as are Pani and Monica Bailey, the company's chief people officer.
GoDaddy, which opened a Kirkland office in 2013, has two floors at Carillon Point. Pani said the company has a separate floor that it uses for media shoots.
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GoDaddy was founded in 1997. The company allows small businesses to get domain names for a website, and it helps with logos, website design and AI-powered marketing posts. Small businesses can also use GoDaddy for payments, as the company acquired point-of-sale company Poynt in 2021 for up to $365 million. Pani said that although GoDaddy caters to larger businesses, the company's focus is small businesses with between one and 10 employees.
As of the end of last year, GoDaddy had 6,159 employees companywide. The company also works with about 3,500 workers employed through third-party contractors to help with support services. GoDaddy generated $1.1 billion in revenue during the second quarter, up 7% year over year.
Pani said that while GoDaddy is not planning to drastically increase its local headcount, the company will continue to tap the region as needed for certain roles. He added that GoDaddy's priority is launching tools that save clients time.
"What we are building right now, here in the Seattle area actually, is a business consultant," Pani said. "Sometimes entrepreneurs know the question they want to ask and what they want an answer to. Sometimes they don't even know what to ask. It's the blank-page problems like where do I start? What do I do next? How do we create conversation starters for entrepreneurs to say what they should do next?"
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