Ireland warmly welcomes new firms in niche, highly skilled areas and Rent the Runway will join a growing number of disruptive companies based here. "Galway city will be a natural fit for this innovative, progressive and creative company. Minister for Business, Enterprise & Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD said: “I am delighted to see Rent the Runway choose the west of Ireland to open their first ever international office and create 150 new high-tech jobs. “There’s an incredible opportunity to tap into the growing STEM talent in the region, and we’re eager to begin establishing our Irish footprint.” From the start, it was clear that Galway was the perfect location for our new office - the city has an atmosphere of creativity, mirrors Rent the Runway’s cultural values, and excitingly, will be the European Capital of Culture in 2020,” said Rent the Runway chief technology officer, Josh Builder. “We are thrilled to open our first-ever international office in Galway, where we’ve had overwhelming support from the government and the IDA. The company’s technology team is 45 per cent female, and 80 per cent of leaders at the company are women. The privately owned company has five physical locations in the US, 11 million members, and 1,800 employees, 93 per cent of whom are female, multiracial and/or minority. The centre in Galway will be the first operation for Rent the Runway outside of the US. The prospective team, to be based in the historic Claddagh area of Galway city centre, will tackle core technology challenges that are critical to Rent the Runway’s overall success and will influence the future of the next generation of services. Influence future of next generation of services Recognising Ireland’s significant technology talent, Rent the Runway aims to hire 150 engineers and tech developers over the next three years. The new office will enable the company to expand its engineering and product development footprint and new Rent the Runway employees will have the opportunity to launch or grow their careers across a number of roles in software engineering and development. Many of our engineers are entrepreneurs themselves, and we strongly encourage a collaborative, product-driven culture across our organization.Rent the Runway, Inc, the company that created the world’s first living, sustainable closet by enabling women to rent versus buy their clothing, has selected Galway for its first-ever international technology office. Engineers at Rent the Runway focus on solving business problems first, and receive the satisfaction that they have true impact on the success of the company. We utilize data, engineering and algorithms to create a personalized website and an adaptive supply chain to fulfill our commitment to an amazing customer experience. Our engineering team works on challenging product-oriented problems across the boundaries of e-commerce, mobile, analytics and shipping/fulfillment, and the backbone of our business is served by our custom logistics management system which is core to our capacity to deliver the right product to the right user at the right time. The Rent the Runway Foundation, which our two co-founders launched together in 2015, helps tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs build and scale their own businesses with the mission of founders more clearly representing the demographics of this country. We are also trying to revolutionize entrepreneurship itself - proving that diverse teams produce outsized impact. We’ve built - proprietary technology, a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation, stores of the future, a viral brand, relationships with hundreds of fashion brands - and we are obsessed with continuing to game change our customer experience. Our employees have a revolutionary spirit that permeates our culture. We are proud to be both a profitable and high-growth business, with a loyal 6MM-strong customer base who share the experience of renting as being empowering and smart. Since our launch in late 2009, we have raised $190M from top-tier investors and built one of the most beloved brands on earth. We have pioneered the Closet in the Cloud and believe that every person globally will soon have a subscription to fashion. Rent the Runway is disrupting the $1.7 trillion global fashion industry by introducing clothing rental as a utility in women’s everyday lives and empowering women to feel like their best selves everyday.
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