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What the hiring data is telling us

Each month our job board gives us something most ecosystem commentary doesn’t: a live, bottom-up read on what founders are actually doing with their capital. Not sentiment — real roles, posted and filled across the Innovation Bay network. Here’s what June looked like.

~9,000 live roles across the network

3,300+ new roles posted in June

~50% of demand is technical

The market is busy – and liquid

There were around 9,000 live roles across the network through June, with more than 3,300 new roles posted — roughly 140 a day. Just as telling, nearly as many roles came down as went up. That churn isn’t softness; it’s liquidity. Roles are being filled and replaced quickly, which is exactly what a healthy, moving talent market looks like.

Founders are still building

Half of all demand is technical: software engineering — the single biggest category at ~18% of all roles — plus IT, data science, product and QA. Companies aren’t trimming to survive; they’re hiring the people who ship. The steady stream of data science roles (~8%) is the AI thesis showing up in the hiring data — it’s where founders are placing their bets.

The scale-up signal is in the back office

The third-largest category — ahead of every engineering discipline except software — is accounting & finance (~11%). That’s the sound of a generation of companies professionalising: bringing in the finance, operations and people leaders you only hire when you’re building something durable.

On the “sales is hotter than ever” question

We’ve heard the view that sales roles are in more demand than ever. The current data complicates that story. Sales & Business Development is the #4 function at ~9% of open roles — real and substantial, and the largest customer-facing category, but sitting behind two technical functions and finance, not leading the pack.

A caveat worth stating plainly: “more than ever” is a claim about change over time, and this view is a single month. To confirm or retire it, we’re now tracking job-function demand month over month — see the note below.

Why it matters – and why it’s free

Innovation Bay Jobs exists to keep great talent inside our ecosystem and shorten the distance between the best people and the companies building the future of this country. It runs on our partnership with Getro, which aggregates live roles across our member and portfolio companies into one place — so a single search reaches the whole community, not one company at a time. It’s the connective tissue applied to talent: collapse the distance, concentrate the opportunity, lift the whole network at once.

If you’re hiring, your roles belong here. If you’re looking for your next thing, this is the shortest path to the founders worth backing your career on.

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From next month

We’re now logging job-function demand each month so this becomes a true trend line — month-on-month movement and a rolling 6-month view of where the ecosystem is really hiring (and whether sales is, in fact, climbing).

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