Irish telecoms company Spearline intends to double workforce

Irish telecoms company Spearline said it would almost double its workforce and add more than 100 new jobs as part of its global expansion plans.

The move comes in the wake of the recent acquisition of TestRTC in Israel, and will see the company grow to 250 by the end of the year. It is planning further growth in 2023.

The Cork-headquartered company said it planned to hire 106 people in customer engagement, finance, HR, marketing, operations, product engineering and sales roles. The new jobs will be across Ireland, the United States and India, with an emphasis on remote working roles. Almost 40 of the jobs will be located in Ireland, but that number could increase as the company has a remote and hybrid working policy, and roles attached to offices outside Ireland could be filled by Irish-based candidates.

Spearline, which helps call centres to monitor their network and call quality and counts Zoom and Mastercard among its clients, has its headquarters in Skibbereen, Co Cork, with a second base in Waterford. It also has locations in India and Romania and plans to establish a multistate team in the US to cover all regions where new and current customers operate.

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“We are delighted to announce we will be expanding our workforce in Ireland and internationally,” said Spearline chief executive and co-founder Kevin Buckley. “Our plan is to hire 106 jobs in total . . . as we adopt a more modern, hybrid working approach in a post-Covid world.”

Spearline was founded in 2003 in west Cork Mr Buckley and Matthew Lawlor. It bought TestRTC in December 2021 in a deal worth more than €10 million, triggering plans for a California expansion.