Box Opens Austin Office and Plans to Create 200 Jobs

Box announced Friday morning it has selected Austin to expand its operations.
The Austin office will be the company’s first U.S. location outside of the Bay Area. The company spent more than a year on its site selection process.
The office will be located at One American Center and it will include workers in a wide variety of areas including customer service, finance, technical operations and other functions. The office is a 20,800 square foot.
Box plans to hire up to 90 workers by the end of this year and plans to eventually hire more than 200. Box plans to hold a recruiting event on June 4th at Easy Tiger.
“Today we have more than 25 million users globally and in addition to Austin, we’ve opened up offices in San Francisco, London, and Japan in the last two years,” according to a Box blog post.
Box, an online file sharing and cloud content management company, is based in Los Altos, Calif. The company has raised $414 million since its founding in 2005, according to Crunchbase.