Doyenz said today that it is opening a new satellite office and hiring for sales jobs in Boston.

The provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and mid-sized businesses the Boston office will support the Doyenz’s rapidly expanding sales and marketing team.

For the new Boston office, Doyenz plans to hire an additional 25 employees, with positions ranging from sales account executives and marketing program specialists to more technical sales engineers. To learn more about the open positions, candidates are encouraged to visit the Doyenz careers page.

“Doyenz is actively hiring sales and marketing executives in the greater Boston area to support the company’s continued expansion across the United States,” said Eric Webster, chief revenue officer at Doyenz. “As a Bostonian myself, I know first hand what a strong talent pool the area produces, with many sales professionals having deep experience in the technology industry. This team will be essential to our growth as we continue to build upon our increasing momentum in the market.”

A local firm has released a report predicting more real estate jobs in Boston.

Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE), a leading real estate services and investment firm, today released its 2011 Real Estate Forecast, which foresees the start of a slow recovery in the leasing market for all property types in the coming year. Activity in the investment market, which began its recovery earlier than anticipated in 2010, will expand beyond assets at the top and bottom of the quality scale to include properties with slightly more risk.
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A search firm is expanding in order to recruit for real estate jobs in Boston.

Boston’s leading executive search firm for the real estate industry, Keller Augusta Partners, has created a new unit, Institutional Services Group, to focus exclusively on placement of senior executives at development and investment companies. Hillary Hatch Graves, a former Managing Director of Commonfund Realty Inc., will head the new group.

Graves, who has 15 years of experience in the financial industry and real estate, joins Keller Augusta’s President, Kate Keller, as a Principal of the new Institutional Services Group at the firm. (more…)

NextGen Digital has announced they are opening a spate of new offices and are hiring for Boston sales jobs.

Continuing its global expansion, NexGen Digital Inc. today announced it is seeking to fill positions in 18 new territories to serve the global semiconductor distribution market. NexGen Digital seeks to open offices in the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Huntsville, Ala., Minneapolis, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and San Diego. The company is targeting statewide or regional expansion in Colorado, Florida, New York, Texas, the Pacific Northwest and Research Triangle Park. In addition, NexGen Digital is eyeing international expansion in Brazil, Toronto and Ireland.

“We are growing quickly and expect to double our sales headcount this year,” said Lisa Taylor, chief executive officer, NexGen Digital. “We create a fun and supportive atmosphere designed to build community and help people thrive in their careers. We’re excited to expand our presence into these areas, increasing our global reach and international communications, which will allow us to better serve our global customer base of OEMs and contract manufacturers.”

NexGen Digital has director of strategic account positions available domestically and internationally. Ideal candidates should be mature self-starters capable of running a territory independently. Candidates must have at least five years of qualified semiconductor industry experience with an OEM or contract manufacturer background, or have broker experience. The positions available offer salary, commission and benefits. Interested parties should e-mail a resume to resume@nexgendigital.com.

For more information about its hiring and expansion, contact NexGen Digital at + 1 949-475-8900, ext. 1919.

Massachusetts companies are warning that medical-device jobs in Boston will be cut in the wake of the federal healthcare reform’s new 2.3 percent sales tax on their products.

This is according to a new survey from the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council.

According to BostonHerald.com, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, which is holding its annual meeting in Boston, said the medical-device tax has become the top issue among firms making products for the medical sector.

The council’s statement didn’t mention what percentage of the council’s members plan to cut jobs after the tax is implemented in 2013.

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Boston Scientific, the world’s second-largest maker of heart devices, is cutting as many as 1,300 sales jobs in Boston, or 10 percent of its non-manufacturing workforce, because it expects sales growth for drug-coated stents and heart defibrillators will slow this year.

Natick, Massachusetts-based Boston Scientific will close its international headquarters, merge the endosurgery group and combine its cardiovascular and cardiac rhythm-management groups, the company said in a Feb. 10 statement. The move will reduce expenses by as much as 7 percent, or $250 million, over the next two years, Boston Scientific officials said.

Boston Scientific employs 25,000 people nationwide and recorded 2009 revenues of $8.188 billion. It was founded in 1979.

According to BusinessWeek.com, Boston Scientific’s shares fell the most in 17 months on March 15 after the company said it stopped sales of defibrillators because of a documentation error. The devices brought in $1.79 billion last year, or 22 percent of Boston Scientific’s revenue, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

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