One of the fastest-growing technology companies in the US, according to Deloitte and Financial Times, has leased the 29th floor of the Skyliner office building at the Daszyńskiego Roundabout in Warsaw. Almost a hundred iTechArt specialists are expected to work there by the end of 2022.
“We hired more than 1,000 employees in 2021 and we have bold plans for 2022. Our clients in the United States want to work with programmers in Poland. When everything goes back to normal, we cannot imagine working 100 percent remotely without personal contacts and checking how our people feel. iTechArt engineers must have the best offices and we rent such offices in all cities,” says Vitaly Aksionchyk, Managing Director Poland.
iTechArt is an international company with offices in New York, London, Vienna, Minsk and Kyiv, among others. It has over 3,000 employees globally, including 150 in Poland. Next to Łódź and Wrocław, Warsaw is one of the three Polish locations the company has expanded to over the last year. iTechArt’s client base includes about 250 organisations including unicorns: Silicon Valley start-ups with very high Venture Capital funding.
At the moment the company is focusing on hiring experienced developers with several years of experience but it also expects to recruit Warsaw-based juniors: “In the talent-hungry technology industry, juniors paradoxically have an uphill battle. Everyone wants to hire developers with experience. However, we are currently building a senior base, also to be able to educate students. Later this year we will start our own internship programme Students’ Labs. The Skyliner will be a great place for this type of activity as well.”
iTechArt has no doubt that companies need and will continue to need office space. “At the moment we have rented a total of 4,000 sqm of offices in three cities and we are looking around for more. We cannot imagine that our specialists could not use an office or work in a flex office where they have to share space. A good workplace is so important to us that we have appointed a team of Happiness Managers who take care of the décor, chillout room equipment, additional activities as well as snacks and coffee,” says Vitaly.
“We welcome aboard another tenant from the IT sector who appreciates the quality of our building. The Skyliner is not only a representative skyscraper and a showcase of a modern organisation but most of all a comfortable high-tech facility which meets the needs of employees,” says Jarosław Prawicki, Leasing Director at Karimpol Group.
The Skyliner office building, where iTechArt has rented nearly 1,500 sqm of space, is one of the seven tallest buildings in Poland and the latest investment project of the Karimpol Group. It offers 49,000 sqm of rentable space on 42 floors. The lowest levels are dedicated to services, retail and food. At 165 m high, there is a two-level Skybar with extraordinary views of the Warsaw skyline. The Skyliner has the highest office lobby in Poland, as high as 16 metres. The building is equipped with state-of-the-art technology including 21 high-speed lifts (up to 7 m/s) with a smart touchless service system, as well as the SkylinerApp building application which replaces traditional access control cards and enables remote desk, room and parking space reservation. The Skyliner’s five-level car park is designed for 428 cars, has charging stations for electric vehicles, as well as parking spaces for 330 bicycles with full infrastructure for two-wheel enthusiasts.
The Skyliner is BREEAM certified as Excellent and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources.
The tenant was represented in the lease by Master Management Group and the landlord by CBRE Poland.
