Tines Adds 100 Dublin Jobs After $272M Raise [2026]

Tines, the Irish-founded AI automation company, has confirmed plans to create 100 new jobs in Ireland over the next two years, according to a report from the Irish Times. The announcement, made on October 12, 2026, places Tines among the most active AI-sector hirers in Dublin this year, and it comes with a second piece of news: a new Dublin headquarters set to open later in 2026.

For a company that builds workflow automation software for security and IT teams, the timing is notable. Enterprises across Europe are racing to bolt AI agents onto their operational tooling, and Tines has positioned itself at the center of that shift. The 100 new Tines Dublin jobs announced this week span product, engineering, sales, customer success, marketing and operations, with more than half earmarked for people who have never held a full-time role before.

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What Tines Does: Inside Ireland’s Workflow Automation Player

Tines builds software that lets security, IT and operations teams automate repetitive tasks without needing a dedicated engineering team to write the glue code. The company describes itself as co-headquartered in Dublin and Boston, a structure that has let it recruit talent on both sides of the Atlantic while keeping its European base firmly in Ireland. That dual-hub model is part of why this week’s expansion matters: it signals Dublin is getting the next wave of growth, not Boston.

The company has built its reputation among security operations teams that need to automate alert triage, phishing response and compliance workflows. As more of that automation work gets layered with AI decision-making, Tines has leaned into a broader pitch: that any employee, not just engineers, should be able to build automated workflows for their own team. That pitch underpins the new Dublin jobs, since several of the roles sit in product and customer success rather than pure software engineering.

Breaking Down the New Roles: Product, Engineering, Sales and More

The 100 new positions will be spread across six functions: product, engineering, sales, customer success, marketing and operations. That spread suggests Tines is not simply scaling its code base, it is scaling the entire commercial machine around it, from the people who sell the software to the teams who support customers once they have bought it.

A Commercial as Well as Technical Build-Out

Sales and customer success roles sitting alongside engineering hires points to a company trying to convert interest into paying accounts at scale, rather than one still proving out its product. Marketing and operations hires, meanwhile, typically follow once a company has enough customer volume to need dedicated teams managing demand generation and internal processes. Taken together, the mix reads as a company moving from growth-stage scrappiness into a more structured scale-up phase.

None of the specific headcount splits between the six functions have been published, so it is not yet possible to say how many of the 100 roles will land in engineering versus sales. What is confirmed is the two-year hiring window and the six functions involved, both of which point to a sustained build-out rather than a single hiring spike.

More Than Half the Jobs Are Entry-Level: What That Means for Graduates

The detail likely to get the most attention from jobseekers is this: more than half of the 100 new roles are intended for people who are new entrants to the jobs market. That is an unusually high proportion for a fast-growing AI company, where hiring often skews toward experienced engineers who can be productive immediately.

Eoin Hinchy, Tines’ co-founder and chief executive, framed the entry-level commitment as a deliberate choice rather than a byproduct of cost-cutting. “As we grow, it’s important that we open the door to talented graduates and early-career professionals to build career pathways in this new space,” he said, in comments tied to the announcement and reported by the Irish Times.

That statement lands at a moment when graduate hiring across the wider tech sector has been patchy, with several multinationals trimming entry-level intake in favor of automation. Tines appears to be betting the opposite way: that AI-native companies still need large numbers of junior staff to support customers, manage workflows and grow into senior roles over time. Hinchy tied this directly to the broader AI jobs debate, saying “AI is changing the world of work, but we believe that it will create new and interesting careers, including in companies like ours.”

A New Dublin Headquarters Is Coming Later in 2026

Alongside the hiring news, Tines confirmed it plans to open a new Dublin headquarters later in 2026. No address, square footage or opening date beyond “later this year” has been made public, but the move fits the pattern of a company outgrowing its current footprint as headcount climbs toward and past the 100-job target.

A dedicated headquarters also gives Tines a physical anchor for its claim to being an Irish-founded company with global reach. For a business co-headquartered in Dublin and Boston, a flagship Dublin office functions as both a recruitment tool and a statement of intent: the center of gravity for European operations, and arguably for the company as a whole, is staying in Ireland.

Tines by the Numbers: Funding, Jobs and Open Roles

The scale of this week’s announcement is easier to read against the company’s broader numbers. The table below summarizes what has been confirmed about Tines’ Dublin jobs plan, its funding history and its current hiring activity.

Metric	Figure
New Ireland jobs announced	100 over two years
Entry-level share of new roles	More than half
Functions hiring	Product, engineering, sales, customer success, marketing, operations
New Dublin headquarters	Opening later in 2026
Total funding raised to date	$272 million
Named investors	Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, Felicis, Addition, Accel, Blossom Capital, Lux Capital
Current live job openings	27 positions
Headquarters structure	Co-headquartered in Dublin and Boston

Inside Tines’ $272 Million Funding Story

Tines has raised $272 million to date from a investor group that reads like a checklist of major growth-stage backers: Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, Felicis, Addition, Accel, Blossom Capital and Lux Capital. That roster blends traditional investment banking money (Goldman Sachs), one of the world’s largest technology-focused funds (SoftBank) and several venture firms with long track records in enterprise software (Accel, Felicis, Lux Capital).

Why the Investor Mix Matters

Having Goldman Sachs and SoftBank alongside specialist venture firms gives Tines access to both deep balance sheets and operational expertise in scaling enterprise software companies. It is also a signal to the market: investors writing large checks into an Irish-founded company are betting that the Dublin-Boston model can produce a category leader in AI-driven workflow automation, not just a regional player serving the Irish or European market alone.

The $272 million raised puts Tines in rare company among Irish-founded technology businesses. It is one of the clearer signals yet that international capital sees Ireland’s AI and security automation sector as investable at scale, rather than treating Dublin purely as a base for multinational European headquarters.

Current Job Openings: A Snapshot of 27 Live Roles

Tines’ own careers page currently lists 27 open positions, a figure that gives an early read on where the first wave of the 100 new Dublin jobs is likely to land before the full two-year hiring plan plays out. The live postings span commercial operations, customer success, engineering, marketing and revenue operations, matching the six functions named in the official announcement.

Department	Example Open Role	Location
Marketing	Field Marketing Manager – West United States	United States – West (Remote)
Marketing	Field Marketing Specialist – EMEA	Dublin
Commercial Operations	GTM Systems Specialist	United States (Remote)
Commercial Operations	Manager, Sales Compensation	Ireland (Remote)
Engineering	Senior Software Engineer (Data Stores)	Dublin / Remote
Revenue Operations	Revenue Operations Engineer	Ireland
Executive Support	Executive Assistant to CEO and COO (fixed term)	Boston, MA (Hybrid)

One of the live listings, an Executive Assistant to the CEO and COO role posted on Tines’ Greenhouse job board, is based in Boston on a hybrid basis, underscoring that the Dublin hiring push sits alongside continued activity at the company’s US hub rather than replacing it.

Why Tines Is Hiring Now: AI Automation Demand in Ireland

The announcement lands at a moment when demand for workflow and security automation tools is climbing across Europe, driven by two overlapping pressures. First, security teams are drowning in alerts and incidents that outpace headcount, pushing them toward automation platforms that can triage routine cases. Second, regulatory pressure around data protection and incident response, particularly across the EU, is pushing IT and compliance teams to document and automate processes that used to be handled manually.

Tines has tried to position itself at the intersection of those two pressures by selling automation as something any team member can configure, not just specialist engineers. Hinchy described that ambition directly: “We believe every employee and every team should be able to use AI to build the software they need, and that’s the opportunity we’re going after with Tines.” Scaling that pitch into a larger customer base is, by Hinchy’s own account, the reason behind the hiring push: “These 100 new roles are an important part of scaling our business and supporting customers as they put AI to work across their organisations.”

Ireland’s AI Jobs Market: Historical Context

Dublin’s tech employment story has gone through several distinct phases. The first wave, through the 2000s and 2010s, was built on multinational headquarters: Google, Meta, Microsoft and others setting up large European operations centers in and around the city. That wave gave Ireland deep bench strength in sales, support and localization roles tied to US tech giants.

The more recent wave, which Tines’ announcement fits into, is different in kind: Irish-founded companies raising large rounds from global investors and choosing to keep their center of gravity in Dublin rather than relocating as they scale. That shift matters because jobs created by an Irish-headquartered company with its own product and engineering function tend to be stickier than roles inside a multinational’s regional office, which can be restructured or relocated in response to decisions made abroad. A company co-headquartered in Dublin and Boston, rather than simply running a satellite office from Dublin, represents a meaningfully different kind of job creation for the city.

Competitive Landscape: The Race to Automate Security and IT Operations

Tines operates in a segment of enterprise software, often described as security orchestration and workflow automation, that has attracted both established vendors and a new wave of AI-native challengers over the past two years. The broad trend across this category is consistent: vendors are racing to add autonomous AI agents that can not just suggest a response to a security alert or IT ticket, but actually execute the fix, with a human reviewing rather than performing every step.

What differentiates Tines within that crowded field, according to its own public statements, is an emphasis on letting non-engineers build and own automated workflows rather than requiring every integration to go through a central platform team. Whether that positioning holds up against well-funded rivals chasing the same autonomous-agent opportunity will likely depend less on marketing and more on how quickly Tines can convert its new Dublin headcount into shipped product and signed enterprise contracts.

Market Impact: What This Means for Irish Tech Employment

For Dublin’s labor market, a 100-job commitment from a single AI company is a meaningful but not enormous number next to the city’s thousands of tech vacancies. Its real significance is in composition rather than scale: more than half of the roles aimed at new entrants directly addresses a complaint that has circulated across Irish tech hiring forums for the past year, that AI adoption is shrinking the number of junior openings available to graduates just as the cost of entering the sector rises.

It also adds to a narrative that Irish-founded AI companies, not just multinational subsidiaries, are now large enough employers to shape local hiring trends. Alongside the new Dublin headquarters, the jobs announcement signals that at least one well-funded Irish AI company is choosing to concentrate growth in Ireland rather than splitting it evenly, or disproportionately, toward its US base in Boston.

Eoin Hinchy on Tines’ Growth: In His Own Words

Tines co-founder and chief executive Eoin Hinchy gave several on-record comments tied to the Dublin jobs and headquarters announcement, reported by the Irish Times. Taken together, his comments sketch out both the commercial rationale for the hiring push and the company’s broader bet on Dublin as a long-term base.

“It’s an exciting time for Tines as we build and grow an AI company from Dublin.” — Eoin Hinchy, co-founder and CEO, Tines
“We believe every employee and every team should be able to use AI to build the software they need, and that’s the opportunity we’re going after with Tines.” — Eoin Hinchy, co-founder and CEO, Tines
“These 100 new roles are an important part of scaling our business and supporting customers as they put AI to work across their organisations.” — Eoin Hinchy, co-founder and CEO, Tines
“As we grow, it’s important that we open the door to talented graduates and early-career professionals to build career pathways in this new space.” — Eoin Hinchy, co-founder and CEO, Tines

None of the comments reference a specific valuation or confirm “unicorn” status for the company, a term that has circulated in headlines around this story without an on-record figure attached. Readers should treat that label as unverified until Tines or an investor discloses an actual valuation.

Predictions: What Comes Next for Tines and Dublin’s AI Workforce

Based on the confirmed details of this announcement, a few outcomes look likely over the next 12 to 24 months.

Expect Tines to publish incremental updates to its careers page as it works through the 100-role target, rather than announcing the jobs in one large batch; the current count of 27 open roles is likely an early marker, not a ceiling.
The new Dublin headquarters opening will likely coincide with, or shortly follow, the bulk of the entry-level hiring, since onboarding large graduate cohorts typically requires dedicated office space.
Other Irish-founded AI and security software companies are likely to face pressure to match Tines’ entry-level hiring commitment, particularly if the move is well received by graduates and generates positive press for Tines’ employer brand.
Further funding activity is plausible given the scale of the current $272 million raised and the capital intensity of scaling customer success and sales teams internationally, though no new round has been confirmed.
Expect continued competitive pressure in the security and IT workflow automation space as rival vendors respond to the same enterprise demand for AI-driven automation that is driving Tines’ expansion.

Each of these remains a forward-looking read on confirmed facts rather than a reported commitment from Tines itself, and should be treated accordingly until the company confirms further detail.

How This Fits the Broader Irish Tech Hiring Picture

Coverage of the announcement from outlets including RTÉ and Silicon Republic has framed the Tines news alongside a wider pattern of Irish AI companies expanding domestic headcount even as some multinational employers in Ireland have scaled back. That contrast, a growing Irish-founded AI sector against a more cautious multinational hiring environment, is likely to shape how recruiters and policymakers read this announcement over the coming weeks.

For job seekers specifically targeting Tines Dublin jobs, the practical takeaway is that the 27 currently listed roles are a live, searchable starting point, while the bulk of the 100-role commitment will likely be filled gradually as the company approaches the opening of its new Dublin headquarters later in 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many jobs is Tines creating in Dublin?
Tines has confirmed 100 new jobs in Ireland over the next two years, spread across product, engineering, sales, customer success, marketing and operations.

How many of the new Tines Dublin jobs are entry-level?
More than half of the 100 new roles are intended for new entrants to the jobs market, according to the company’s announcement.

Is Tines opening a new office in Dublin?
Yes. Tines plans to open a new Dublin headquarters later in 2026, alongside the hiring push.

How much funding has Tines raised?
Tines has raised $272 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, Felicis, Addition, Accel, Blossom Capital and Lux Capital.

Is Tines a unicorn?
Media headlines have used the term “unicorn,” but no valuation figure confirming that status appears in the company’s own announcement or in the reporting examined for this article. That detail remains unconfirmed.

Where is Tines headquartered?
Tines is co-headquartered in Dublin and Boston.

How many open roles does Tines currently have?
As of this announcement, Tines’ careers page lists 27 open positions, spanning commercial operations, customer success, engineering, marketing and revenue operations.

What does Tines actually build?
Tines builds workflow and security automation software that lets IT, security and operations teams automate repetitive tasks, increasingly incorporating AI-driven decision-making into those workflows.