240 SENIOR SEATS, 117 OF THEM HERE LAST MONDAY
240 SENIOR SEATS,
AND HALF OF THEM
WERE HERE LAST WEEK TOO.
Monday 9 November 2026
240 senior media roles open right now, director level and above, against 217 last Monday. But the number that stopped us is a different one. 117 of those 240 were already on this list a week ago. Nearly half the senior seats in front of you this morning are searches that haven't closed yet.
And at the other end of it, the Middle East is still at zero. More on both below.
FILED BY
Chris, RedHolt
6 min read
What We Think Is Actually Happening
Five things, with the evidence attached
01
The market is edging up, and the big studio groups are still where the depth is.
Like for like, the senior count is up about 7 per cent on last week. That's a steady week rather than a surge.
The depth sits in the same place. NBCUniversal is carrying 42 senior seats, Paramount 34, Crunchyroll 21, Nielsen and Gracenote 16, Tubi 15. Those five hold 53 per cent of the whole list. If you're a senior person who can work in the United States, that's where the doors are open.
02
Seats are staying open longer, and that's useful to you.
117 roles carried over from last Monday, against 86 the week before. That's 49 per cent of the list, up from 40. Paramount, Samba TV and Netflix have the most seats that have now been open for eight weeks or more.
A seat that's still there a week later tells you something. The hiring team hasn't found their person yet, and a direct, well aimed approach to the person the role reports to lands very differently in week four than it does in week one.
03
Commercial is closing the gap on product and engineering.
Product and engineering still leads, 80 seats against 58 commercial ones, and it has been in front every Monday since the start of October. But the gap has narrowed from 33 seats to 22 in a week. Commercial went from 47 to 58, with new sales, partnerships and business development seats at Comcast above all, then Tubi, Nielsen and NBCUniversal.
Inside the product number there's still a quiet corner worth knowing about: 18 of this week's roles are Principal or Lead engineering and architecture seats, seven of them at Disney and five at NBCUniversal.
04
Asia Pacific is warming, and the Gulf still isn't.
There are 31 senior seats across Asia Pacific this week, against 12 last Monday. India holds 17 of them, most at JioHotstar, and there's a cluster in Tokyo and Seoul across Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Crunchyroll and Disney, most of it new this week. Set JioHotstar aside and the region is still on 21.
The Middle East is at zero for a third Monday. Africa is at zero for a fifth. If you're in the region and looking, the honest advice is the same as last week: aim outward. 16 seats in the UK, 31 across Asia Pacific and six in Europe are where a month of effort will go furthest right now.
Why the Gulf reads as zero, and why that isn't the same as nobody hiring
Hiring culture is different from region to region. Across the Middle East, and in much of Asia Pacific, senior seats are very often filled on trust and existing relationships, sometimes before a role is ever advertised. In Europe and the United States, employment rules and most companies' own internal hiring guidelines mean senior roles are far more likely to be posted publicly, even when there's already someone in mind. So a public list will always show more of the American and European market than the Gulf's. If you're here in the region, the move is twofold: aim outward at the seats you can see, and closer to home make sure the people who make these calls already know who you are.
And one thing for everyone, wherever you are
Look at your LinkedIn network. None of those connections are an accident. You either accepted them, or they accepted you. It's incumbent on each of us to breathe life into the latent potential sitting in them. If you're a candidate in the Middle East or Asia Pacific, keep that front of mind, because in markets that run on trust and relationships, that's where a lot of senior seats are found.
05
Ad tech and measurement is still the warmest corner.
Five of the seven ad tech and measurement companies we track have a senior seat open, 32 roles between them, led by Nielsen and Gracenote with 16 and Samba TV with nine. That's the warmest segment for a fifth week running. The vendor and media technology layer is still thin, with 25 senior seats, and Dolby alone carries 13 of them.
Twelve Mondays
The trend underneath the number
Like for like, the senior count is up about 7 per cent on last week. A steady week, not a surge. The line below is every Monday since we started counting.
Still Looking
117 of this week's roles were also advertised last Monday
And plenty have been open far longer than that.
NBCUniversal has 28 of them, Paramount and Disney 12 each, Versant 10, Samba TV nine. Paramount has ten senior seats that have now been open for eight weeks or more.
NBCUniversal / Peacock · SVP, Head of Studio Data & Insights
Universal City, CA
NBCUniversal / Peacock · Vice President, Content Delivery Networks
New York, NY
Paramount · SVP, Corporate Strategy
Los Angeles, CA
Paramount · VP, Compensation
Los Angeles, CA
The Walt Disney Company · Product Strategy and Operations Director
San Francisco CA / Glendale CA
The Walt Disney Company · VP, Publicity
Burbank, CA
Versant · Director, Podcasts & Digital Shows - CNBC
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Versant · Senior Director, Finance Transformation (Versant Media)
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Samba TV · Senior Director, Sales Engineering
New York City, New York
Crunchyroll · VP, Product Counsel
Los Angeles, CA
If one of those is yours, the door hasn't closed. This is the week to go at it directly rather than waiting for the next posting.
The Roles, By Region
Every role on this week's list, closest to home first
Company, role, location, then the link. A few entries link to the company's careers page rather than the posting itself, so for those, search the title there and apply.
Middle East
0 rolesNothing at director level or above this week.
United Kingdom
16 rolesComcast · Director, Advertiser Partnerships & Strategy
London, England
Crunchyroll · Director of Corporate Communications
London, UK
Crunchyroll · Director, Localisation & Operations - Europe
London, UK
Crunchyroll · GM, Europe
London, UK
Deltatre · Technical Delivery Director - Vesper Build and Run
United Kingdom
Deltatre · Technical Director - OTT Delivery
United Kingdom
Deluxe · VP, Theatrical Subtitling
Burbank CA or London UK
Genius Sports · Group Head of Finance (Legend)
London, United Kingdom
NBCUniversal / Peacock · Director, Corporate Legal Affairs
London, United Kingdom
NBCUniversal / Peacock · Director, Global Product Analytics
Brentford, UK
NBCUniversal / Peacock · Director, Music Business & Legal Affairs
London, United Kingdom
Paramount · Director of Social Paramount + EMEA
London, GB
Paramount · VP, Commissioning Editor - Drama
London, United Kingdom
Samba TV · Director Product Management - Identity & Activation
London / New York City
Sportradar · Director, Enterprise Clients
London, United Kingdom
Sportradar · VP, Security Operations
London, United Kingdom (global remit)
Europe
6 rolesDeltatre · Technical Delivery Director - Vesper Build and Run
North Macedonia
Deltatre · Technical Delivery Director - Vesper Build and Run
Italy
Deluxe · Director, AI Engineering & Platform
Aachen, Germany (hybrid)
Dolby · Head of Automotive Business m/f/d
Nuernberg, Germany
Magnite · Account Director, Publisher Platforms - AdTech
Paris, France
Samba TV · Senior Director - Data Platform and Cloud Services
Warsaw, Poland
Asia Pacific
18 rolesAmazon Prime Video · Head of Prime Video Channels, Prime Video Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Amazon Prime Video · Head of Scripted & Movies, Japan, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
Tokyo, Japan
Amazon Prime Video · Principal Software Engineer, Prime Video & Studios CoreTech
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Crunchyroll · SVP, Franchise & Title Strategy
Tokyo, Japan
Dolby · Director, Licensing Sales Automotive
Shenzhen, Futian District, CN and Beijing, Chaoyang District, CN
Dolby · VP, Commercial Partnerships, China
Beijing, Chaoyang District, CN and Shenzhen, Futian District, CN
JioHotstar · Director - Data Science
Mumbai
JioHotstar · Director - Enterprise IT
Bengaluru
JioHotstar · Director - Enterprise Security
Mumbai, Urmi
JioHotstar · Director - Entertainment Ad Sales, Digital, LCS
Gurugram, Star Center
JioHotstar · Director - Entertainment Client Strategy & Solutions
Mumbai
JioHotstar · Director - Growth Strategy
Mumbai, OUC
JioHotstar · Senior Director - Entertainment Ad Sales, Digital, LCS
Mumbai, Urmi
JioHotstar · Senior Director - Marketing, Tamil
Chennai, Kochar Jade
JioHotstar · Senior Vice President - Entertainment PRS, South Regionals
Chennai, Kochar Jade
JioHotstar · Vice President - Entertainment Pricing, Planning, Supply and Ad Products, Digital
Mumbai
Netflix · Director, Business Affairs Lead - Japan Content
Tokyo, Japan
Netflix · Director, Content Localization - APAC
Tokyo / Seoul / Singapore
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What It Means
If you're looking right now.
- 01
If you can work in the US, start with the five companies holding more than half the list.
- 02
Aim outward too: 16 seats in the UK and 31 across Asia Pacific this week.
- 03
In the Gulf, senior seats are often filled on trust and relationships before they're advertised.
- 04
Wherever you are, your LinkedIn connections aren't an accident. Breathe life into them, doubly so in the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
- 05
Go after the seats still open. The door hasn't closed.
Why We Do This
The clearest weekly picture of senior media hiring anywhere
It started with something I kept hearing in conversation after conversation. The senior jobs are out there, Chris, but I can never see them all in one place. So one Monday in August we went and looked, and we found 80. This morning it's 240, and we've done it every single Monday since, with the trend underneath so you can see which way the market's moving and not just what's open today.
That's what we're building: the clearest weekly picture of senior media hiring anywhere, free for members, so you can see the whole market at once and move first. It's a big part of what this community is for.
And so you know where it's all heading, we intend to be the most distinguished headhunting firm in the world for senior media roles, on both sides of this industry, the businesses that reach the viewer and the companies that supply them. It's a standard we hold ourselves to, and Mondays like this keep us on the pitch.
And if you're out there looking for your next role and wondering why you're not making more progress, the Career Blueprint might well help. It's really hard to work out what you are as a product when you ask the same brain that is the product to work out what the product is, and that's exactly what the Blueprint does for you. Members get 50 per cent off.
And even if a Blueprint isn't for you, just talk to me. A half an hour conversation can sometimes make a huge difference.
Have a great week. Chris
GLOBAL ROLE FINDER, NOVEMBER 2026
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