{"id":10219,"date":"2011-06-15T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=10219"},"modified":"2011-06-15T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:00:18","slug":"google-hiring-offers-field-sales-staff-in-17-major-u-s-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/google-hiring-offers-field-sales-staff-in-17-major-u-s-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hiring Offer’s Field Sales Staff in 17 Major U.S. Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been questions<\/a> about Google’s desire and willingness to ramp up face to face sales in local markets. Their attempted acquistion of Groupon<\/a> seemed be to focused on a quick development of an on-the-ground, locally focused sales team. Discussions about their early efforts and ability to succeed in selling local revolve around this question. Last week’s job postings indicated that they were looking for new hires in Seattle<\/a> for “Commerce Sales team [members which will] play a critical role in growing Google\u2019s new Commerce related businesses, such as Google Offers, through large-scale SMB acquisition programs.”<\/p>\n

Today while searching<\/a> the Google Jobs posting for similar positions (Field Rep<\/a>, Field Sales Manager<\/a>, First Sales Team Lead <\/a>& Head of Field Sales<\/a> for Commerce Sales) I found at least 64 Offers postings<\/a> for the following cities:<\/p>\n