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Startup hiring tracker
What venture-backed startups that just raised are hiring for right now, counted from every role they post. Last 30 days against the 30 before.
6,892 new roles at 647 venture-backed startups in the last 30 days, up 24% on the 30 days before.
- Gaining share: sales & bd (1,088 roles, +48%), marketing (424 roles, +59%) and product (191 roles, +46%).
- Losing share: engineering (2,088, +9%) and data & ml (143, -7%).
- The most-posted kinds of role were hardware / robotics (393), marketing / growth (319) and other sales (291).
- Fastest-rising role: security, 156 new roles against 73 the 30 days before.
- Anthropic posted the most, 223 roles after its Series H, followed by Cyera (185) and Blank Street (175).
- Best-paid listed role type: account executive, with a median top-of-range of $300K.
New roles
6,892
+24% vs prior 30 days
Startups hiring
647
+4% vs prior 30 days
Median top of pay range
$200K
45% of roles list pay
Remote
23%
of new roles
By function
| Roles | Share | vs prior 30 days | Median pay* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 2,088 | 30.3% | +9% | $225K |
| Sales & BD | 1,088 | 15.8% | +48% | $225K |
| Operations | 562 | 8.2% | +25% | $175K |
| Marketing | 424 | 6.2% | +59% | $190K |
| People | 296 | 4.3% | +32% | $175K |
| Hardware | 290 | 4.2% | +32% | $94K |
| Customer | 216 | 3.1% | +19% | $150K |
| Finance | 204 | 3.0% | +21% | $200K |
| Product | 191 | 2.8% | +46% | $250K |
| Legal | 167 | 2.4% | +27% | $250K |
| Design | 148 | 2.1% | +24% | $205K |
| Data & ML | 143 | 2.1% | -7% | $168K |
| Science | 92 | 1.3% | +46% | $175K |
| Clinical | 81 | 1.2% | -1% | $95K |
*Median of the top of each listed pay range, USD roles only, shown when at least 8 roles list pay.
By role
Grouped from job titles.
| Roles | Share | vs prior 30 days | Median pay* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware / robotics | 393 | 5.7% | +11% | $180K |
| Marketing / growth | 319 | 4.6% | +48% | $200K |
| Other sales | 291 | 4.2% | +50% | $210K |
| Account executive | 285 | 4.1% | +34% | $300K |
| Software engineer | 242 | 3.5% | +4% | $245K |
| Backend / infrastructure engineer | 235 | 3.4% | +22% | $275K |
| AI/ML engineer or researcher | 227 | 3.3% | +46% | $290K |
| Customer success / account manager | 171 | 2.5% | +32% | $185K |
| Recruiter / talent | 168 | 2.4% | +19% | $179K |
| Product manager | 161 | 2.3% | +41% | $250K |
| Solutions / sales engineer | 156 | 2.3% | +54% | $250K |
| Security | 156 | 2.3% | +114% | $250K |
| SDR / BDR | 123 | 1.8% | +78% | $100K |
| Legal | 112 | 1.6% | +15% | $250K |
| Finance | 110 | 1.6% | +33% | $226K |
| Designer | 100 | 1.5% | +18% | $193K |
| Data | 84 | 1.2% | -5% | $220K |
| Forward deployed engineer | 68 | 1.0% | -3% | $240K |
| Full-stack engineer | 63 | 0.9% | +43% | $268K |
| Frontend / mobile engineer | 26 | 0.4% | -24% | $257K |
*Median of the top of each listed pay range, USD roles only, shown when at least 8 roles list pay.
Who is hiring the most
Most new roles in the last 30 days.
- 1Anthropic223 roles
Series H · mostly engineering
- 2Cyera185 roles
Series G $400M · mostly sales & bd
- 3Blank Street175 roles
Series C $75M
- 4Harvey160 roles
Series H $550M · mostly sales & bd
- 5Crusoe138 roles
Series F $3.9B · mostly engineering
- 6DayOne113 roles
Series C $2.5B
- 7Alan103 roles
Series G $545M · mostly sales & bd
- 8Pogo94 roles
Venture round
- 9Horizon3.ai87 roles
Series E $250M · mostly sales & bd
- 10Astranis77 roles
Series E · mostly engineering
- 11True Anomaly72 roles
Series D $600M · mostly engineering
- 12Kraken71 roles
Venture round $100M · mostly engineering
- 13Mistral AI71 roles
Series D $3.5B · mostly engineering
- 14Sierra67 roles
Series E $950M · mostly sales & bd
- 15Mach Industries62 roles
Series C $600M · mostly engineering
The last 7 days
New roles
1,668
+10% vs week before
Startups hiring
368
-2% vs week before
Median top of pay range
$200K
44% of roles list pay
Remote
25%
of new roles
By function
| Roles | Share | vs week before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 494 | 29.6% | +7% |
| Sales & BD | 285 | 17.1% | +16% |
| Operations | 127 | 7.6% | -3% |
| Marketing | 92 | 5.5% | -10% |
| People | 76 | 4.6% | +3% |
| Hardware | 62 | 3.7% | +27% |
| Customer | 45 | 2.7% | -6% |
| Product | 42 | 2.5% | 0% |
| Legal | 41 | 2.5% | +3% |
| Finance | 41 | 2.5% | -16% |
Top hirers
- 1Anthropic59 roles
Series H · mostly engineering
- 2Pogo53 roles
Venture round
- 3Cyera46 roles
Series G $400M · mostly engineering
- 4Blank Street39 roles
Series C $75M
- 5Sierra39 roles
Series E $950M · mostly sales & bd
- 6Covenant34 roles
Series A $250M · mostly engineering
- 7Harvey32 roles
Series H $550M · mostly customer
- 8Crusoe31 roles
Series F $3.9B · mostly engineering
12-week trend
New roles per week by function (Monday to Sunday weeks).
All new roles per week
Engineering
453+68% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Sales & BD
238+80% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Operations
141+127% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Marketing
102+86% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
People
77+92% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Hardware
48+117% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Customer
51+134% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Finance
46+81% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Product
36+66% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Data & ML
29+74% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Legal
37+105% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Design
42+50% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Clinical
16+87% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Science
12+48% (last 4 wks vs first 4)
Cities
| Roles | Share | vs prior 30 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF Bay Area | 1,246 | 18.1% | +6% |
| New York | 829 | 12.0% | +19% |
| London | 329 | 4.8% | +49% |
| Los Angeles | 305 | 4.4% | -9% |
| Denver / Boulder | 183 | 2.7% | +12% |
| Paris | 160 | 2.3% | +1% |
| Boston | 151 | 2.2% | -1% |
| Seattle | 132 | 1.9% | +31% |
| Toronto | 123 | 1.8% | +68% |
| Munich | 112 | 1.6% | +1% |
| Tel Aviv | 102 | 1.5% | +386% |
| Austin | 98 | 1.4% | -25% |
Seniority
- Intern3%
- Entry3%
- Mid48%
- Senior13%
- Staff/Lead13%
- Manager12%
- Director4%
- VP/C-level4%
How we count
Every role comes from the startup's own hiring system (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and others), at venture-backed companies that raised in the last six months. A role counts in the week JustBacked first listed it. Changes compare with the period of the same length just before. JustBacked keeps adding newly funded companies, so raw counts drift up over time; shares of all new roles are the cleaner signal of what is gaining or losing ground.
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