Ottawa’s Ross Video looking to add another 200 employees

An Ottawa-based production company is hiring upwards of 200 people as it hopes to surpass 1000 employees in 2021, despite the ongoing pandemic.

Posting 100 new positions during its first virtual job fair, March 30, the hiring blitz from Ross Video is regarded as the next step in growth for the company.

David Ross, CEO of Ross Video, says that they have been growing at an average of 15 per cent every year for 29 years and 1000 employees is simply what year 30 looks like.

“We are hiring over 200 people this year, which is a big jump. Going from around 800 people to passing well through a thousand — it’s a big year,” says Ross.

“There’s a lot of jobs posted on our site. We did not put all 200 jobs on at once, it would just overwhelm people and they would not be able to find what they are looking for. But, at any given time there is between 50 to 80 jobs posted.”

The positions advertised at the virtual job fair included research and development, sales and marketing, manufacturing, human resources, finances, IM/IS, IT and more.

Since March of last year, at the onset of the pandemic, Ross says his company took the initiative to provide their workers with higher wages. The CEO confirms, the wage increases for entry level jobs began with COVID-19 but are permanent raises.

“When we did it, at the time it impacted 100 eastern Ontario families, where they got a substantial wage increase. There are some 16 and 18 an hour jobs that suddenly became $20 an hour jobs,” says the CEO.

Ross believes what separates his company from a lot of the others in Ottawa is its broad range of technologies.

“If you are interested in robotics, we are hiring there. If you are interested in designing circuit boards at the hardware level, we are doing that. Writing embedded software or web type software like working with Java, we are doing that as well,” says Ross.

“If you are interested in A.I, we are working in A.I. It’s almost every buzz word you can think of Ross Video is doing it all at the same time. When you add over 200 people to a company, all the people you need to make that company work, the backbone of the company has to expand as well.”

Ross Video’s production team took on the entirety of the WNBA’s broadcasting needs in 2020, facilitated large- scale broadcasts from major networks like ESPN, and applied graphics technology to the Chinese Spring Festival and the Grammy’s.

“It’s a neat company, everybody knows who our customers are. Whether it is the biggest sports teams, broadcasters, stadiums and governments. It’s really neat to have a company with this much technology and so many interesting things going on while still remaining a family company,” says Ross.

Ross Video has 15 offices across six countries, anyone interested in a career with Ross Video is encouraged to visit their website to find out more.