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Laand Hiring Index

What tech, startups and AI companies are hiring for right now, and what they actually ask for. Read straight from company job boards, every day, by Laand.

667,172open roles right now
12,301companies hiring
92,564new roles this week
+22%open roles vs 30 days ago
3%of open roles are AI roles

Beyond the resume

3% of job ads want high agency. 79% of those never ask to see it.

3%of job ads describe high-agency work
79%of those ask for no proof of work
18%still make a degree a hard requirement
12%ask to see a portfolio, sample or trial

We read every job ad on the boards we track, sentence by sentence. 3% describe a role that needs high agency: someone who owns outcomes, works through ambiguity or builds from zero. 1% ask for "high agency" or "taste" in so many words. Only 18% still make a degree a hard requirement.

Yet 79% of the ads that ask for high agency ask for nothing but a resume to prove it; only 12% of all ads ask to see a portfolio, a work sample or a trial project. A resume lists what someone was given to do. It cannot show whether they spot the problem nobody assigned them, or solve it with the taste that makes the work stand out.

  • Within the same function, high-agency roles advertise 87% more at the top of the range.
  • AI roles ask for high agency more often: 8%, against 3% of other roles.
  • 7% expect candidates to work fluently with AI tools.

How employers ask for it

Laand is the agent for high-agency talent with rare execution taste: it helps people prove what a resume cannot, and helps companies hire on that proof. See how it works

Roles making waves

Every function, right now

Growth compares the last 30 days with the 30 before, on the 1,754 boards we have tracked throughout, so new coverage never reads as market growth.

FunctionOpen nowNew, 30 daysGrowthMedian top of rangeRemoteAI rolesHigh-agency
341,243280,139−5%$77k6%1%1%
77,63447,819−18%$195k11%0%4%
46,10533,612+7%$82k18%1%3%
21,10318,195+43%$58k9%1%1%
19,65718,814+5%$240k7%2%1%
19,38014,709+2%$132k10%1%3%
16,4139,555+14%$142k14%2%2%
14,6539,758−13%$160k25%2%9%
13,8038,184+5%$171k2%1%3%
12,6167,490+27%$230k20%100%8%
11,4917,276+4%$200k11%0%3%
9,9617,144+11%$189k15%0%4%
9,5285,534+4%$215k26%17%13%
9,2728,132−20%$80k15%3%3%
7,1104,231−16%$200k25%9%4%
6,4904,564+12%$198k15%2%4%
6,4204,581−3%$146k14%1%9%
6,2463,828+7%$185k23%2%8%
5,5103,344+13%$171k23%3%13%
3,6562,256−37%$144k29%1%7%
3,0031,713+4%$91k29%1%10%
2,4461,666+6%$175k24%1%13%
2,1421,067+6%$220k21%14%22%
1,290728+36%$204k26%4%15%

Operations & Strategy

Companies hiring
8,166
High-agency ads with no proof asked
80%
Degree required
16%
Ask to see the work
9%
Most-open titles
Registered Nurse, Pharmacy Technician, Assistant Manager
Hiring most
Cvshealth, Lowes, TJX

The market, week by week

Open roles over time

Like-for-like boards, by group of functions.

Titles

What the market is learning to need

Titles move before org charts do. Rising titles grew their share of new roles fastest, at five or more companies.

On the rise

  1. Software Development Engineer In TestSoftware Engineering · 10 companies+471%
  2. Global Account ManagerSales · 8 companies+471%
  3. Regional Sales DirectorSales · 5 companies+390%
  4. Sales EngineerSolutions & Sales Engineering · 14 companies+328%
  5. Systems AdministratorInfrastructure & DevOps · 9 companies+281%
  6. Technical WriterContent & Media · 11 companies+243%
  7. Associate ManagerOperations & Strategy · 10 companies+212%
  8. Firmware EngineerHardware & Robotics · 8 companies+198%
  9. Technical Account ManagerCustomer Success · 12 companies+186%
  10. Client PartnerSales · 9 companies+186%
  11. Product Management DirectorProduct Management · 8 companies+186%
  12. Operations ManagerOperations & Strategy · 16 companies+164%
  13. Solution ConsultantSolutions & Sales Engineering · 6 companies+164%
  14. ArchitectSoftware Engineering · 9 companies+145%
  15. Sourcing ManagerOperations & Strategy · 6 companies+128%

Brand new

  1. InitiativbewerbungOther · first seen October 21, 2026335 cos.
  2. Maintenance MechanicOperations & Strategy · first seen October 23, 202697 cos.
  3. Physical TherapistOperations & Strategy · first seen September 27, 202688 cos.
  4. Occupational TherapistOperations & Strategy · first seen October 21, 202677 cos.
  5. PharmacistOperations & Strategy · first seen October 6, 202666 cos.
  6. Open SollicitatieOther · first seen October 21, 202660 cos.
  7. Speech Language PathologistOperations & Strategy · first seen October 3, 202654 cos.
  8. MechanicOperations & Strategy · first seen October 14, 202652 cos.
  9. Clinical PharmacistOperations & Strategy · first seen October 20, 202650 cos.
  10. Technical ManagerOperations & Strategy · first seen October 23, 202647 cos.

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How we measure, and how to cite it

  • Source. The public job boards of 15,035 companies, read directly from their applicant tracking systems every day. Staffing agencies are excluded.
  • Open roles are a census of what is live on those boards right now.
  • Growth compares like with like: only boards we tracked before the comparison period began. A role counts as new on the date it was posted, not the day we found it.
  • Pay is the median top of advertised USD salary ranges.
  • Hiring signals come from reading the full text of 851,861 job ads opened in the last 12 months, sentence by sentence, with fixed rules rather than AI guesses. A role whose ad we could not read is left out rather than counted as silent.
  • Thin numbers are hidden. A percentage needs at least 50 roles behind it to appear here.

Laand Hiring Index, laand.me/laand-hiring-index, data as of November 11, 2026.