First-hire signals / Engineering Leadership
Companies making their first Engineering Leadership hire
3 companies have recently posted their first-ever Engineering Leadership role on their public careers board. New engineering leaders re-evaluate the tool stack in their first 100 days and buy engineering-metrics and planning tools.
First Engineering Leadership hires
Teams scaling Engineering Leadership fast
Surge
Breakmark: Engineering Leadership hiring surge — 14 roles in 30 days (previous 30 days: 0)
2026-10-05
How we detect a first Engineering Leadership hire
We classify every posting title into one of 41 role families. Engineering Leadership covers: engineering managers, directors, vps of engineering and ctos. We keep the full history of families each company has ever posted.
- Observed: the family appeared on a board where we had previously recorded postings and never saw this family.
- Inferred: on the first crawl of an established board (postings older than 60 days), the family has only 1–2 roles, all posted in the last 21 days.
Currently 506 Engineering Leadership roles are open across 102 companies — see all companies hiring Engineering Leadership.
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