THIS WEEK · 17 AUGUST 2026
BY CHRIS · WEEKLY SENIOR SEAT SCAN
Every Monday since mid July I have swept the careers pages of our corner of the industry, company by company, link by link. Until now I have shared a curated ten. Several of you asked for the whole board, so here it is: more than fifty senior seats, all verified live, organised by where they are and what they are.
What the market is telling us
What five weeks of tracking is telling us
The market is hiring people who make money
Roughly half of everything on this board is a revenue seat: advertising sales, monetisation, retention, commercial partnerships. Comcast is building an entire senior ad sales bench for its new Universal Ads business in one quarter. DAZN has put a Head of Research and Measurement and a Head of Strategic Planning up alongside its VP Media Sales, all closing the same day, which is what a coordinated build looks like. CNN's one visibly busy corner is retention. When the industry's spending freezes everywhere else, it concentrates where the money comes in, and that is exactly what we are watching happen.
New York is the centre of gravity
Eighteen of the seats below sit in New York. London is the quiet second pole: Comcast alone now has four live senior commercial seats there. The West Coast belongs to product and data. And Netflix's freshest senior openings are all Asia Pacific, three of them below, which is the first real eastward shift we have seen since this scan began. That is super interesting to me.
Speed is the story nobody tells you
A senior marketing seat we shared on Wednesday was filled the same day. A Prime Video seat lasted barely a week. Amazon is running one to two week windows on senior roles now. The uncomfortable truth is that by the time a senior role looks open to everyone, it is usually already closing, so if something below fits you, this week beats next week every single time. To compete in this market means being ready, and really understanding what you represent in terms of value. That is hard to achieve alone and that is why I have created The Career Blueprint Package.
Two smaller currents worth knowing
Salary transparency keeps rising: most US seats below carry published bands, and the top of the market keeps setting records. And the technology vendors, whose boards have been largely frozen all summer, are opening seats again in exactly one place: revenue and post sale. When vendors buy salespeople and loyalty leaders before they buy engineers, they are telling you where their boards think the next eighteen months live.
An honest note on the Middle East
The Gulf's public boards are quiet, but the hiring is not: two Director grade country leadership seats in the region were filled this month without ever being properly advertised. If MENA is your market, the roles are moving through networks rather than job boards right now, which is precisely what a room like this one is for. I am here and have spent years becoming credible enough to be considered when there is a senior search, but most are done under the radar and quietly among trusted networks. If you know of a role that belongs here, drop it below. More than 2,000 of us watch this market together now, and this works because we do it for each other.
The rest of the board
Every live senior seat this Monday
Everything below was verified live this Monday. Where a closing date is shown it is real. This week three senior doors shut within days of opening, so treat the dates with respect.
New York
18 rolesAdvertising & commercial sales
Executive Director, Advertising Sales
Comcast / Universal Ads · New York
The flagship of a four seat senior bench being built for Comcast's new performance advertising business
Sr. Sales Director, Search & Services
Comcast / Universal Ads · New York
Same new bench, search and services advertisers
Sr Director, Advertising Sales, Mobile/Tech
Comcast / Universal Ads · New York
Sr Director, Advertising Sales, Commerce
Comcast / Universal Ads · New York
VP Media Sales
DAZN · New York
The executive seat for North American commercial growth across advertising, distribution and partnerships
Marketing, growth & monetisation
Head of Lifecycle Marketing
DAZN · New York
CRM, engagement and subscriber lifecycle for the US business
Director, Product Management, Retention
CNN · New York
Subscriber retention as a product discipline (via mirror)
Director, Ad Monetization & Insights
Disney · New York or Glendale
Ad revenue strategy for the streaming portfolio
Strategy, research & data
Head of Global Research & Measurement
DAZN · New York
Advertising research and measurement worldwide
Head of Strategic Planning
DAZN · New York
The sibling seat, planning the whole ads operation, same band, same close
VP, Product, Comcast Advertising
Comcast · New York or Philadelphia
A thirty plus product organisation across four product areas
Director, Research & Analytics
ESPN · New York or Bristol
Audience research for the ESPN portfolio
Principal Product Manager, Ad Products (Live Sports)
Amazon / Prime Video · New York or Seattle
The product brain behind live sports advertising
Content, editorial & communications
Chief Editor
DAZN · New York
Editorial leadership for the US, deadline extended
VP Content Production, Sports
DAZN · New York
Director of Multimedia & Social Strategy
BBC Studios · New York
Multiplatform and social strategy for BBC Studios in America (via mirror)
Director, Media Planning
ESPN · New York
Director, Communications
ESPN · New York
US West Coast
10 rolesProduct, data & technology
VP, Data Product
Disney · Santa Monica or New York
The data product behind the Disney+, Hulu and ESPN streaming stack
Executive Director, Data Science
Disney · New York, Santa Monica or San Francisco
Depending on city
Product Strategy & Operations Director
Disney · San Francisco or Glendale
Director, Product Management, Reporting Solutions
Disney · Seattle, Santa Monica, Glendale, New York or San Francisco
Principal Product Manager, Personalization & Monetization
Amazon / Prime Video · Seattle
Principal PMT, Live Sports
Amazon DSP · Santa Monica, Boulder, New York or Seattle
Senior Design Director, Member Experience
Netflix · Los Gatos or LA
The published band is the largest we have ever tracked
Growth, monetisation & content
Executive Director, Product Growth & Monetization
Disney · San Francisco or Glendale
Director, Creator Content and Partnerships
Disney · Burbank
The seat defining Disney's Creator Studio, with a whole team being hired beneath it
Broadcast & production services
Director & Site Manager, Connected Solutions
NEP Group · Van Nuys
via Indeed
US, Elsewhere & Remote
9 rolesSport & commercial leadership
Executive Director, Commercial USA
World Rugby · USA
Commercial strategy for Rugby World Cup 2031 and 2033
Managing Director, Rugby World Cup USA 2031
World Rugby · USA
The person who delivers rugby's biggest ever bet on America
Executive Director, USA Growth Plan
World Rugby · USA
The growth sibling
SVP, Sports Studio & Entertainment
ESPN · Bristol CT
Studio programming, digital production, podcasts and audio, the biggest band on this board bar one
Vendor revenue & post sale (the remote seats)
VP Sales & Customer Growth
Bitmovin · Remote
Player coach seat building the US revenue engine for serious video infrastructure
VP, Customer Loyalty
Telestream · Remote
Retention, renewals and the whole post sale revenue motion, posted this weekend
Senior Sales Director, Media
Brightcove · US remote
Platform engineering
Director, Enterprise Architecture, Platform & Infrastructure
Comcast / FreeWheel · Reston VA (hybrid)
Strategy
Sr Director, Strategic Planning
Comcast Technology Solutions · Philadelphia
London & UK
3 rolesCommercial & sales
Senior Director, International Sales, Streaming, Broadcasting & Advertising
Comcast · London
Revenue leadership across Europe, MENA and APAC
Director, European Sales
Comcast · London
Cloud video, broadcast and advertising solutions across Europe
Senior Director, Growth and Emerging Markets
Comcast / FreeWheel · London
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