DoubleDown Interactive lays off 55 employees at Seattle office following delayed IPO
January 8, 2021 at 12:41 pm
Casual game maker DoubleDown Interactive this week laid off 55 employees at its Seattle office.
The company said the cuts mostly affected engineering and product development functions. They were made as DoubleDown moves development resources to its Seoul, South Korea headquarters location. The Seattle office serves as the company’s main U.S. engineering center and employed 149 people as of June 2020.
“DoubleDown’s Seattle office will remain an important location for the company continuing to be the primary site for player-facing activities such as channel marketing, paid user acquisition and retention, marketing art, and customer service as well as high-level app and game design and art,” Joe Sigrist, senior vice president and general manager at DoubleDown, said in a statement to GeekWire.