A London-based company with a strong Tampa presence is ready to further grow its Sunshine State roots.
TransferWise, an international tech-enabled money transferring company, announced Wednesday it is looking to fill 750 roles globally, with 40 of those being based in Tampa.
"We’re already improving international banking for people and businesses, but this is just the very beginning," Kristo Kaarmaan, founder and CEO of TransferWise, said in a statement. "We need a lot of help beyond our current team to achieve our mission of money without borders."
The company currently has 2,200 employees across 14 global offices, servicing 9 million customers. In 2016, it was reported the company hit the famed unicorn club, or private companies that are worth over $1 billion. In 2015, it opened its Tampa office, and in 2018 it transferred offices to a historic cigar factory in Ybor City, where it remains today.
A TransferWise spokeswoman told Tampa Bay Inno the roles will be primarily operational, such as customer support, verification and payment operations. The postings and hirings will span through Q1 and Q2. She also noted even if one role is posted on the website, multiple hirings can happen for that one role.
The company chose Tampa as one of its two U.S. locations due to Tampa's "deep talent pool in customer service and financial operations," according to Kaarmaan. It also has an office in New York. The company currently expanded its remote work offering to 90 days, which states an employee can work in any of its global offices for three months at a time.
"Employees worldwide can enjoy working and living in a country they don’t know, or to travel to their home country to be with family," a company statement said.
TransferWise is the latest technology company to expand or move operations into the Tampa Bay region:
- January: The Inc Lab, a D.C.-based company announced it would be bringing an AI lab to Tampa
- February: Avalon Healthcare Solutions a Healthcare IT company, expands expansion project
- May: Pole Star, a London-based maritime technology company, announced the opening of a St. Petersburg office
- May: After getting acquired from St. Pete-based Sunny-Z Inc., New Jersey-based American Fibertek relocated to St. Petersburg
- June: Fisher Investments a Washington-based financial services company, announced a new office opening in Tampa
- July: Baltimore-based Madison Cloud relocates to the Feather Sound area in Pinellas County
- July: ioAssociates, a U.K.-based digital technology firm, announced it would open its first U.S. office in Tampa
