Online pollster SurveyMonkey said Tuesday it plans to lay off 13 percent of its staff, about 100 jobs, because its "strategy isn't living up to expectations."
SurveyMonkey said the cuts included a "small number" of Portland employees, but the company indicated it still plans to increase the size of its downtown office.
"We expanded our office space in downtown Portland in anticipation of growing the office. That will not change," SurveyMonkey chief executive Zander Lurie said in a written statement.
Founded in Portland in 1999, SurveyMonkey's headquarters are now in California but the company still has a big outpost downtown - employing more than 100 on two floors of the U.S. Bancorp Tower ("Big Pink.") Since the company's 2009 sale, the Portland office has focused primarily on customer service.
In a statement to the online tech journal Re/Code, Lurie said most of Tuesday's cuts will be in the company's sales office. Lurie said the company expects $200 million in revenue this year.
SurveyMonkey Vice President Ross Moser, head of the Portland office, said the company will be adding jobs here as it expands the office's role in the company.
SurveyMonkey raised $250 million in 2014 in an investment that valued the company at $2 billion. The company endured a difficult 2015 when CEO Dave Goldberg - husband of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg - died suddenly while on vacation in Mexico.
-- Mike Rogoway
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