United States. Snap One opened its new headquarters that serves as an innovation center for the acceleration of hardware and software products, a space that will house interoperability testing, product engineering and design, hardware and software testing, among others.
Snap One announced on May 10 the opening of a new five-story, 94,983-square-foot building. This building is called joint, because it functions as the co-headquarters at the Innovation Pointe campus in Lehi (Utah).
According to Snap One Chief Operating Officer Jeff Dungan, the new joint headquarters features an innovation center with an increased number of labs, testing areas and state-of-the-art training facilities that enable the company to accelerate the development of hardware and software products. and services that can be imagined, designed, prototyped, tested and delivered faster than ever to delight our partners and their customers.
"The original Draper, Utah location was established in 2005 and was able to meet the needs of our partners for nearly 20 years. As our scale and pace of technology innovation accelerates, we have built on this legacy to address the needs of the future," said Dungan. "In designing this new shared headquarters, we have considered the long-term needs of our partners and their customers and created an environment that internalizes the capabilities needed to accelerate our innovations."
For Dungan, "the name of the location of our new innovation center, Innovation Pointe, is very appropriate. This campus will function as a creative hub for a larger community that is attracting some of the biggest names in tech today."
Innovation Pointe is at the heart of 'Silicon Slopes', Utah's tech community, which is also home to many leading tech innovators, including Adobe, Pluralsight, Qualtrics, Ancestry, Entrata, Lucid, Pattern, Domo, Microsoft, Oracle, Skullcandy, Vivint, and many others. Snap One's new joint headquarters will serve as a collaboration hub for about 500 Snap One area employees, complementing the company's other technology centers in Charlotte, North Carolina and Serbia.
Specifically, new capabilities hosted within the Innovation Center include interoperability testing, Control4 automation testing, in-house digital product design, physical engineering and prototyping, software development, accelerated and highly accelerated product life testing, regulatory and drop testing, anechoic and RF chamber. Tests. The facility also contains a large number of classrooms that allow the company to operate an on-site Snap One University that can train partners to be more proficient in both Control4 and third-party product integration.
In addition, new and expanded labs will enable the company to design and develop better product and safety experiences. The enhanced collaboration spaces will foster greater creativity and collaboration among team members in Utah and around the world. The space will also be used for engineering leadership and team member collaboration. The building itself has been designed to provide bright and welcoming working conditions that will enhance the productivity and well-being of everyone who works there.
"With the opening of this new joint headquarters, partners can once again be confident that Snap One is by their side, making their future needs our top priority: thinking ahead about the resources and capabilities they will need to expand their business today and in the future. the future," Dungan concluded.
