NINE STREAMERS
ARE HIRING
RIGHT NOW.

Every single streamer board we could read is hiring at senior level. Nine out of nine. Netflix 16, Paramount 16, Crunchyroll 13, Tubi 10. Last week that figure was 90 per cent, the week before 76.9. It has risen five editions running, which is the longest clean run of anything we track. What that means for you: if you have been waiting for the right moment to move across into a streamer, this is the warmest the door has been since we started counting.

Seven vendor boards out of thirty three are hiring at senior level, 21.2 per cent, the lowest reading in the series. Twenty six vendor boards served us their complete list this morning with nothing above director on it: Irdeto, Nagra, Verimatrix, MediaKind, Vizrt, Telestream, Qwest, Kaltura, Accedo, Qwilt, Cleeng, JWX, Backlight, Titan OS, MainStreaming, M2A Media, Magycal, Conviva, Quickplay, Firstlight Media, Axinom, castLabs, Mux, OTTera, Ateme and Comcast Technology Solutions. Those are real zeroes. We read the whole board and there was nothing there. Last Monday we said the vendor share had risen three editions running and told you to hold that loosely. Holding it loosely was right. What that means for you: on the vendor side, aim at the seven that are moving rather than at the category. Deltatre is carrying thirteen senior seats on its own, and NPAW has two sales director roles open for a second week after six empty editions. Those are the doors that are actually ajar.

This is new and it is the finding we would most want you to take away. From this week we track which roles are still advertised a week later, matched on requisition ID rather than job title. Sixty eight of last Monday's roles are still sitting there. Look at the most senior of them and it is the same job in three different buildings. Tubi wants a Vice President and Associate General Counsel for content acquisitions. Crunchyroll wants a Vice President of content protection and anti piracy. Dolby wants a Vice President of intellectual property protection. All three were advertised last Monday. All three are still advertised today. What that means for you: if rights, content protection or anti piracy is your background, you are scarcer than you think you are. Three of the four most stubborn senior seats in the open market are yours, and a role that will not close is a role where the company has run out of options. Ask for more than you were going to ask for.

Product and engineering 51 seats, commercial 44. A fortnight ago that gap was fifty three. Commercial is the only major function that has risen two weeks running, and it is the function leading what little vendor hiring there is. The honest caveat, because we would rather give you it than have you act on half a number: part of the engineering fall is our own rule, not the market. We only count a specialist engineering seat if it is a Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, Principal Architect, Staff Architect, Distinguished Engineer or Principal Consultant. One role in this whole sweep qualified. Read the direction, not the size of the gap.