SurveyMonkey Moves European HQ to Dublin

Palo Alto, CA-based DIY research specialist SurveyMonkey is moving its European headquarters to Dublin, hiring 50 new members of staff in Ireland, and relocating its international team there from its office in Lisbon.

SurveyMonkey provides online subscription-based tools that enable individuals to create surveys, collect responses and analyze survey results. The firm also offers an Enterprise version for gathering and sharing business-related feedback. The company currently has more than 275 employees, based in the US, Luxembourg and Portugal.

In December, SurveyMonkey announced it would be opening an office in London's Tech City, billed as the company's largest office outside the US. The firm has now started advertising for a wide variety of roles to be based at its new operation in Ireland.

Luis Franco, VP, International Operations, comments: 'This new office will ensure we can further educate our international customers, all from a central multi-lingual, multi-cultural location. The convergence of language talent, technology know-how and cultural savvy makes Dublin the ideal base from which we can meet the needs of our international customers.'

SurveyMonkey is one of a number of companies from Silicon Valley that have chosen to locate a strategic part of their international operations in Dublin. At the end of last year, Facebook caused a storm when it revealed that its Irish operation earned £1.5bn, but paid just £4.3m in tax. Separately, earlier in the year, marcoms giant WPP moved its headquarters back to London from Dublin, reversing a move it made for tax reasons in 2008.

Web site: www.surveymonkey.com .