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How Talkdesk hires

Truth index
A 87/100
Median time to fill
88 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%

Talkdesk scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 88 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

Talkdesk is a cloud contact centre company founded in 2011 by two Portuguese entrepreneurs after winning a Twilio hackathon. Its platform combines omnichannel routing, workforce management and artificial intelligence agents for customer service teams. The company became the first Portuguese-founded unicorn and keeps large engineering operations in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra.

News

News markets.businessinsider.com 30 days ago
Talkdesk brings commerce orchestration to the retail floor
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Talkdesk, Inc. today announced Talkdesk for Stores, bringing the physical store into the ...
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News Pulse 2.0 1 month ago
Talkdesk: Interview With SVP, Global Head Of People Shauna Geraghty About AI, HR And IT Convergence
At Talkdesk, AI is increasingly bringing people strategy, enterprise technology, organizational design and business transformation together. As the company pursues an AI-first transformation, its approach includes rethinking workforce planning, employee d
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News markets.businessinsider.com 1 month ago
Talkdesk and Microsoft expand partnership to accelerate AI automation for enterprise contact centers
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Talkdesk, Inc. announced an expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft that enables or...
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News YahooFinance 1 month ago
Microsoft, Talkdesk Expand Collaboration for Azure-Backed Software Purchases
Microsoft (MSFT) and Talkdesk have expanded their collaboration, allowing enterprise clients to buy
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
Talkdesk named a Leader in two 2026 IDC MarketScape Vendor Assessments
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Talkdesk, Inc., today announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwi...
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News markets.businessinsider.com 2 months ago
Talkdesk transforms the bank branch into an AI-powered advisory hub
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Talkdesk, Inc. today announced Talkdesk for Financial Centers, a new solution that transfo...
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Press release The Manila Times 4 months ago
Talkdesk ends the guesswork in deploying customer-facing AI agents
Talkdesk Agent Builder enables teams to create, test, and validate AI agents before deployment - turning ideas into production-ready AI workers in hours, not weeks
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News International Business Times 3 years ago
Once Valued At $10B, Talkdesk Cuts Staff In Third Round Of Layoffs Since Last Year: Report
Talkdesk was valued at $10 billion in mid-2021 after it secured $230 million in funding. But amid a wider tech reckoning, the software provider has implemented three rounds of workforce cuts since
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Talkdesk over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
103
Postings analysed
62
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python19%
JavaScript19%
Kotlin10%
Java8%
Frameworks & libraries
Spring Boot5%
Flink5%
CallKit2%
Commander.js2%
Databases
PostgreSQL8%
Redis8%
ElasticSearch6%
MySQL6%
Cloud & platforms
Apache Kafka11%
AWS10%
RabbitMQ10%
Kubernetes8%
AI & ML
LLM10%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$205k
Typical range
$79k – $330k
Open positions
18
16 Jobs
Junior 6.3%
Middle 12.5%
Senior 68.8%
Principal 6.3%
Architect 6.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $164k $164k
Middle 2 $225k $144k – $305k
Senior 11 $205k $147k – $330k
Principal 1 $273k $273k
Architect 1 $204k $204k
Highest paying role Senior Manager, Solutions Engineer (FSI) $330k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Talkdesk By role, level and city, against the market · 18 jobs with pay

People

Tiago Paiva
Executive Officer, Director
Josh Stein
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
33
14 opened / 24 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
95 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
28% ▲
Sales
19% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
Support
8%
HR
8% ▲
Leadership
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Solutions (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added React.js to stack Oct 2026
New location: Salt Lake City Oct 2026
New location: Dallas Oct 2026
New location: Philadelphia Oct 2026
Added Okta to stack Oct 2026
Added PHP to stack Oct 2026
Added Magento to stack Oct 2026
New location: Portugal Sep 2026
New location: United Kingdom Sep 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added Twilio to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
13
Hiring now
9
Countries
6
Busiest office
Porto
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Talent Community
535 Mission Street, 12th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94105, US
careers board, company site
Porto Portugal
Support & operations
Portugal (Hybrid)
4 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Leadership, Management
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Seattle United States
Regional office
Seattle
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $273k Avg Salary
hires for Product
seen since Aug 2025 careers board, job postings
Lisbon Portugal
Portugal (Hybrid)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Solutions
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
UK (Remote)
1 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Phoenix United States
Sales office
USA (In Region)
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $330k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Amsterdam Netherlands
Netherlands (Remote)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Dallas United States
Sales office
USA (In Region)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $330k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Salt Lake City United States
Sales office
USA (In Region)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $330k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Paris France
Engineering / R&D
France (Remote)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Solutions
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Singapore (Remote)
careers board
Palo Alto United States
Regional office
Palo Alto
careers board
Tysons United States
Regional office
Tysons
careers board
Earlier presence
Bengaluru, India 3 open roles · last posting Sep 2026
Munich, Germany 1 open roles · last posting Feb 2026
Austin, United States 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Philadelphia, United States 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026

Jobs

$124k – $164k per year • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • United States
AI Agents
Management
ServiceNow
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≈ $62k – $164k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Paris
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
NLP
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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≈ $43k – $98k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Portugal
JavaScript
Kotlin
Ruby
Redis
RabbitMQ
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Management
Agile
Scrum
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$117k – $178k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
DevOps
Rest API
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$220k – $330k per year • Remote (United States) • 7+ years exp • United States
AI Agents
Cybersecurity
PCI DSS
SOC 2
HIPAA
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$136k – $204k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
SOAP
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≈ $94k – $181k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • 2+ years exp
JavaScript
SQL
AI Agents
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
WebRTC
TCP/IP
DNS
Analytics
Looker
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$45k – $79k per year • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree
AI Agents
DevOps
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$205k – $305k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • United States
AI Agents
Management
Outlook
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$157k – $235k per year • Remote (United States) • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
AI Agents
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Management
ITSM
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≈ $55k – $126k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lisbon
JavaScript
SQL
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
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≈ $41k – $119k per year (Estimated) • In office • Portugal
Python
AI Agents
DevOps
Splunk
AWS
Linux
Unix
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
IBM QRadar
SIEM
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Financials

Total raised
$158.3M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 $143.3M Details
Series A 2015 $15M Details