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Cisco Systems Inc. has big plans to grow its global workforce this year, and New England Cisco officials say the region is no exception.
In the week since Cisco CEO John Chambers said the San Jose networking giant would hire up to 3,000 people globally, Paul Bosco, vice president and general manager of video and broadband at Cisco and overseer of the company’s 2,000 employees locally, said “we’ve already begun to grow." The company has just short of 50 positions they would like to fill locally and expect to fill 15 to 20 of those with people outside the company.
Many of the positions are designed to fill out the teams of Cisco’s main product lines in the area: collaboration software and video networks. Specifically, the company is hiring sales and support personnel for its WebEx collaboration software as well as engineers and salespeople for its growing line of video delivery and video communications products.
“Video is a fundamentally transformational moment in our industry, and we are hiring in a range of sales and R&D groups that span the entire video spectrum,” Bosco said. The Boston area is a major center of Cisco’s video concept and platform solutions group.
The organic growth in headcount is on top of acquisitions of local companies. Late last year, Cisco closed the acquisition of Tewksbury mobile data delivery technology firm Starent Networks. While Bosco would not comment specifically on the company’s plans for Starent, he noted the importance of such investments in the Massachusetts IT industry.
“It’s a very good sign of the health of the industry to have hiring again, but the fact that we have put $2.9 billion in the region... I’d count that as an example of importance of investing in the entrepreneurial spirit of the region,” he said.
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