— Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. — Gwen Hall was appointed CEO… Read More
The workplace and job market are a volatile mix of variables these days, including the economy, tech layoffs, inflation, pay transparency, remote work, and a move by some companies to… Read More
Seattle compensation data startup Payscale announced Tuesday that it is purchasing San Francisco-based competitor Agora Solutions amid a tailwind of lawmakers pushing employers for more pay transparency. Terms of the deal… Read More
— Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. A SAP Concur veteran, Torrey took over as CEO from longtime leader Mike Metzger in 2019. The company’s… Read More
Payscale is hopping on the M&A train again. The Seattle-based compensation data company today announced the acquisition of CURO Compensation Ltd., a Scotland-based firm that also sells compensation software. The… Read More
The plywood is coming down, restaurants that survived are adding hours and vehicle traffic in Seattle is growing from the ghost-town levels of one year ago. But as downtown, Belltown,… Read More
— Entrepreneur Jeff Ma is now general manager of Microsoft for Startups. Ma founded CircleLending, Citzen Sports and tenXer, all of which were acquired. He was a predictive analytics expert… Read More
— Compensation software provider PayScale named Kristin Boraas its new general counsel, responsible for the growth of the Seattle-based startup’s legal department. Boraas spent more than five years in Tableau’s… Read More
The Seattle metro area saw the second-highest annual wage growth during the fourth quarter of 2019, according to PayScale’s latest wage trends report. Seattle had a 4.4% year-over-year spike, and… Read More
There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software… Read More
—Former Microsoft general manager Adrianna Burrows is now chief marketing officer at Seattle-based compensation startup PayScale. Burrows is one of several new executives appointed by new CEO Scott Torrey, who… Read More
— Cary Baker, currently chief financial officer at RealNetworks, will leave the company in February to join Seattle-based RFID maker Impinj as CFO. Baker was previously CFO at HEAT Software… Read More
— Former PayScale CFO Mark Klebanoff signed on with Amperity as chief operating officer. Klebanoff, who joined PayScale in 2013, previously worked with Amperity co-founders Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager at… Read More
It pays to be in tech, and in Seattle. The city landed among the top metro areas in the U.S. when it comes to strong wage growth in the Q3 2019… Read More
— Axon landed former Amazon executive Jeff Kunins as chief product officer and executive vice president of software. Kunins was most recently vice president of Alexa Entertainment and previously was… Read More
Convoy is adding two new senior executives to lead marketing and revenue, capping a year of massive growth following a funding round that vaulted the on-demand trucking company into the… Read More
PayScale‘s longtime CEO Mike Metzger has stepped down, and Scott Torrey will lead the company going forward. Torrey is a veteran of SAP Concur who spent nearly two decades with… Read More
Officially, Lydia Frank is PayScale’s vice president of corporate and product marketing — a promotion that was announced this month. But parts of the job remind Frank of her first… Read More
If you’re a woman working in the tech sector, odds are you’re making roughly the same salary as a male employee in a comparable role with a similar background and… Read More
As discussions swirl about gender pay disparities and more information becomes available about salary practices, PayScale keeps on growing. Now the Seattle-based compensation data company has a new financial backer… Read More
Seattle is an evolving city, so it makes sense for the GeekWire Awards to evolve, too. That’s especially evident as we set out to identify the tech industry’s CEO of… Read More
For all of Jeff Bezos’ accomplishments, one accolade he hadn’t attained was leading a company sitting atop the GeekWire 200, our ranking of privately held Pacific Northwest tech companies. Until now.… Read More
DocuSign’s long reign atop the GeekWire 200 ranking of the top Pacific Northwest startups is over. The digital signature giant vacated its number one spot after graduating from our list… Read More
Gentlemen, consider this your formal invitation. As we recognize April 10 as Equal Pay Day – the symbolic day women would make as much as men in the previous calendar… Read More
Toward the end of last year, a report named seven Pacific Northwest startups — all of them near the top of the GeekWire 200 — that could go public in 2017. In… Read More
It might be chilly in Seattle this week, but a new interactive “heat map” from the folks at Payscale shows just how hot the region was in 2017 when it came… Read More
— One of the original backers of Redfin is stepping off the board of directors after more than a decade of service at the Seattle real estate company. Paul Goodrich,… Read More
Tech companies with more women in leadership enjoy some unexpected perks. In addition to improving salary equity among men and women, they also have higher rates of employee satisfaction and… Read More
Seattle-based compensation software and data provider PayScale announced today that it has received a minority investment from Mercer, a New York-based publicly-traded consulting company. As part of the investment deal,… Read More
ReplyYes, a fast-growing, chat-based commerce startup, announced three additions to the company’s executive board this week: former Zulily engineer Trevor Inman, former Qumulo exec Brett Goodwin, and Blackberry and Warner Music… Read More