Pleasant Ridge-based ePrize has added 140 new jobs over the last year, the lion's share of which are in its Oakland County headquarters. The tech firm also has 25 open positions that it's looking to fill at an open house today.
The technology meet and greet will feature the latest in what the digital engagement software firm has to offer. It's also looking to attract people to become the newest members of the company's team, including professionals who specialize in software engineering, quality assurance, front-end web development, technical project management and systems support.
"We're expecting to do a lot more hiring in this area in 2013," says Sarah Sheffer, a corporate recruiter for
ePrize. "We're hoping to find a few good employees."
The 13-year-old company was founded by
Josh Linkner, the current CEO of
Detroit Venture Partners, in 1999. It has since grown to 425 people and 20 summer interns. Of those employees, 320 work in Pleasant Ridge.
Catterton Partners, a Connecticut-based private-equity firm, acquired ePrize earlier this year.
Shortly after that
ePrize spun out
LevelEleven, a tech start-up that creates a sales force mobile app. The venture-backed start-up now calls the M@dison Building home and is hiring. The executives behind ePrize are looking to do more of that and are hoping attractive more software talent will help push that along in 2013. The company expects to hire another 50-100 people next year.
"The lion's share of these hires would be in Pleasant Ridge," says Mark Schell, senior director of talent for ePrize.
Source: Mark Schell, senior director of talent for ePrize and Sarah Sheffer, a corporate recruiter for ePrize
Writer: Jon Zemke
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