Long ago, the 17-story building at 76 Ninth Avenue housed the original headquarters of the Port Authority of New York – the hub of the region's massive transportation activities. So it's only fitting that Google, whose mission is to make the world's information universally accessible, chose this 2.9 million square foot modern office building and retail center – the second largest building in Manhattan – as its New York base. Situated in the city's historic Chelsea district just a few blocks from the center of the U.S. media universe, Google New York is the company's North American Advertising Sales headquarters, our largest engineering center outside of Mountain View, and a full-service engineering R&D center.
Here, we occupy more than 300,000 square feet and employ more than 2000 people, including software engineers, system administrators, site reliability engineers, technical writers, quality engineers, test engineers, user experience researchers and product managers with a wide array of backgrounds and experiences. We also have employees working in human resources, finance, legal, facilities, marketing, communications, business development and corporate development.
Our engineers work on a range of projects including search and advertising quality, Web applications, infrastructure and application backends, research and much more. Our Direct Sales Advertising teams support several industries that drive New York's economy, including retail, media and entertainment, finance, travel, automotive and consumer/packaged goods. Google sales representatives offer products such as AdWords, AdSense, Google Mini and Google Checkout to Fortune 5000 companies throughout the country. Additionally, the New York office launched our print advertising beta product and our television advertising group.
"Hundreds of computer scientists and engineers are building systems that push the limits of what's possible. The atmosphere is intense AND fun, with challenging problems and great perks, day in and day out. Google New York is a delight."
Stu Feldman, Vice President, Engineering
Here in NY we thrive in the same culture Google made famous in Silicon Valley. This is a community of bright, inspiring and talented people who work in a relaxed but focused professional environment, with access to an amazing pool of computing resources and data that help us solve intellectually challenging and wide-ranging problems.
It's always easy to get to know like-minded Googlers to expand your horizons, too. You're more than welcome to take advantage of these and many other offerings: Google Cares (our volunteer network), @Google Talks series, our strong ties to academia and the research community, language classes, sports teams (softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, dodgeball, juggling) and game competitions (hosted in our Game Room, where you can play "Guitar Hero II", Foosball, table tennis, darts, pool and board games).
With all of the complex challenges our company faces, we are always seeking new Googlers with industry expertise, broad and varied experiences and impressive accomplishments. Above all, we're looking for more innovators like us, because at Google, innovation is a constant. If you're ready to join us, please check out our open positions. Want to learn more about Google in the New York community? Visit our NYC community site