Jobber has officially opened a Vancouver office, giving the Canadian tech company a formal home base in a city where it says it already employs more than 100 people.

The company, which builds software for home service businesses, has moved into a new space at 601 West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver. According to Jobber, the office has 70 desks and will operate in a hybrid work format.

For Jobber, the move is not about entering Vancouver for the first time. It is about catching up to the team it has already built here.

“Great Vancouver-based talent kept joining us organically, but we weren’t getting the benefits of co-location because those folks had nowhere to meet,” Lynsey Thornton, VP at Jobber, told Vancouver Tech Journal. “It’s important for us to give people a home base to come together, and that hasn’t been possible at scale for us before now.”

CEO Sam Pillar put it more bluntly.

“The most depressing celebration is the one where you drop an emoji in Slack or toast the camera on your webcam after a significant win and then log off to silently go fold the laundry,” Pillar said.

Founded in Edmonton, Jobber has grown into a major Canadian software company serving home service businesses such as plumbers, landscapers, cleaners, and other field-service operators. The company says it powers more than 100,000 teams across 60 countries.

Jobber now has offices in Edmonton, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Boston, and Vancouver.

Thornton said the new Vancouver space is intended to strengthen collaboration among employees who were already based in the city, while also giving Jobber a more visible presence in the local tech ecosystem.

“With this space, people from teams across the company will be working together and hanging out, and we expect to see that contribute to better decision making,” Thornton said. “It’s also somewhere we can celebrate the wins.”

The company is also looking to hire in Vancouver, particularly engineers, designers, and product managers. Thornton said Jobber is not focused on anchoring specific teams in the city so much as finding local people who fit the company’s mission.

“We care more about finding exceptional local people who align with our mission than anchoring on specific teams,” she said. “But knowing the Vancouver scene, we’re looking to take advantage of the huge range of technical and creative talent here.”

The Vancouver office also comes as many tech companies continue to refine what hybrid work looks like after years of remote-first hiring. For Jobber, Thornton said, the office is first and foremost about creating a better working environment for the team.

“AI is compressing the time between idea and execution, and being in-person has the potential to make those iteration loops even faster — and arguably more fun,” she said.

Jobber is also planning to use the space for community-building. Thornton said the company is considering hosting an event in late August or early September, once the lounge spaces are complete, with co-founder and CTO Forrest Zeisler potentially speaking on what it takes to build large-scale companies in Canada.

The Vancouver push also appears tied to Jobber’s broader recruiting ambitions. Thornton said the company does not yet have a strong employer brand in the city, despite already having a sizeable local team.

“There aren’t that many large-scale Canadian tech companies in Vancouver, and I know so many in the community who want the opportunity to contribute to the Canadian tech story,” Thornton said.

She added that Vancouver is also connected to the kinds of customers Jobber serves.

“Many of the team here joined because they have a friend or family member — a plumber, landscaper, or cleaner — struggling with the realities of keeping it all going, and they want to change that,” Thornton said. “The home services community in Vancouver is large, and we want to help strengthen it.”

For Jobber, then, the new office is both a workplace and a signal: the company already had Vancouver talent. Now, it has a place for that team to gather, grow, and help define the company’s next stage.

“We’re the leader in our industry, but we’re only at the start of our journey,” Thornton said. “Challenges never really go away as you scale, they just change shape. So we’re looking for people who will help us do that: push past what got us here, raise the bar for our customers, and win the next stage of growth.”