On the heels of its
$1.6 million funding announcement in July,
Social Tables has hired seven new faces in the last month, bringing the current number of employees to 22. Julia Damon, who manages marketing communications for Social Tables, says that there are still more spaces to fill.
"We've hired two people in sales, three in marketing and two in engineering," Damon recounts. "We're actively looking for one to two more people for our customer success team." Social Tables is also hiring a product manager. "The [product manager] will work with everyone to figure out where we go from here—what we build now."
All seven of the new hires hail from the D.C. area, which, Damon says, reaffirms the company's commitment to the District.
Social Tables' new employees bring "a new look at the industry," according to Damon. "We had the ability to hire the people we needed," she explains. "And we needed to expand to the hospitality industry, but we didn't have that experience. All of our new hires have hospitality experience. One came from Cvent, two have experience in the catering industry—at the Kennedy Center and at Avalon Catering, and one is from Saber Hospitality."
Damon attributes Social Tables' growth to funding and to necessity. "[Overall]," she explains, "our growth has been [a result of] the needs we see in the industry." Damon says that enterprise clients use Social Tables as a sales tool in the proposal process as well as an operational tool in day-to-day business operations. The company is seeing results; Damon estimates Social Tables is gaining between 100 and 120 new enterprise customers per month.
With the expanded staff and steady growth, Social Tables is quickly outgrowing its current home at 1776. "We will be moving out," Damon says. "We're getting too large for the space. We don't know where we're moving to yet. We've been actively looking for a space for the past two weeks. But we're looking to stay in D.C."
She anticipates the move will happen sometime in early November.