B2B SaaS hiring · every company verified
The state of B2B SaaS hiring.
Measured weekly, not surveyed.
Weekly numbers from 7,296 live B2B SaaS companies. We read each company's job pages directly. Dead companies removed. Agencies never counted.
Key numbers
issue 08 · week of 7 sep 2026Companies hiring now
Open roles
Open leadership roles
Share of companies hiring ▼ −2.9 pp
arrow: same companies, 4 weeks
Hiring index ▼ −7.1 %
The index
baseline 100 = week of 20 jul 2026open roles per 100 companies · chain-linked
Open roles per 100 companies. Each week compared against the same set of companies as the week before, so adding new companies to the database never moves the line.
Key numbers this week
this week · arrows vs 4 weeks ago · copy them as they are, free with a link to assaybase.io
of companies have at least one open role.
open roles per 100 live companies.
of open roles are engineering — the largest function.
of open roles are Head-of level or above.
of open roles are AI roles, across 370 companies.
customer-success share of openings: sales-led vs product-led.
companies hiring a Head-of where we find no current leader.
companies hiring now, of 7,050 checked alive.
Every number comes straight from the database. Week of 7 Sep 2026, AssayBase.
Leadership gaps
Only on AssayBase this weekCompanies hiring a Head-of for a function where we find no current leader. This crosses two datasets nobody else combines: who a company is hiring for, and who already leads there.
Companies gapping, by function
12 more companies' gap postings have titles that don't sort into any tracked function.
Hiring mix: product-led vs sales-led
Only on AssayBasethis week · share of each side's open roles · hybrids grouped with their leading side
All open roles
Leadership roles only · 308 PLG · 661 SLG
Reading the market · September 2026
The interesting split this week is not engineering. Both product-led and sales-led companies put almost exactly a third of their open roles into engineering, and about a quarter into sales. Where they part company is customer success: sales-led companies give it 11.6% of their openings, product-led companies 8.9%. Marketing runs the other way, 8.1% product-led against 6.8% sales-led. That is the shape of two different businesses — one staffing the conversation after the contract, the other staffing the conversation before the signup — and it is visible only because every company here carries a checked go-to-market classification.
Where the roles are
this week · arrows vs 4 weeks agoShare of all open roles
Leadership openings · 990 roles · count and share of that function
Size and geography
Open roles per 100 employees · this week · covers 96% of companies
Small companies hire harder relative to their size. A band with fewer than 30 companies keeps its label and loses its bar; the largest band is open-ended, so it never gets a rate.
Roles per 100 companies HQ'd there · covers 94% of companies
Countries with fewer than 150 companies in our scope are excluded, because a rate needs a denominator big enough to be a rate.
How these numbers are made
The corpus is 7,050 live, verified B2B SaaS companies. Each one passed a SaaS check before entering, and dead or acquired companies are removed. We read careers pages and job feeds directly from each company, every week. No job boards, no agencies, no duplicates. Talent-pool adverts and general-application forms are stored but never counted as openings.
Every line on this page is a rate, never a raw count. Each week is compared only against the same companies in the previous week, so growing coverage never fakes a trend. The technical name for it is a chain-linked matched-panel index; the practical effect is that when we start reading 500 more companies' job boards, none of the lines move. Raw counts appear only as this-week figures — the three numbers at the top, the key numbers, the share bars, the go-to-market card and the country table — each carrying the week it was taken.
One function is missing from the chart on purpose. Some job titles cannot be sorted into a function at all; we count them, and they appear as “Other” in the share of all open roles. But we do not draw them as a line. When that bucket moves it usually means we have got better or worse at reading job titles, not that companies have changed what they hire for, and a line cannot tell those two apart. It moved sharply in August 2026 for exactly that reason: about 1,200 postings we had never managed to classify left our data in two weeks.
The index is set to 100 in the week of 20 Jul 2026 and does not start earlier because our job data does not: the first company job board was read on 16 July 2026, and any number before that would be invented. The weeks from 20 Jul 2026 to 17 Aug 2026 are rebuilt from stored posting history rather than measured live. Size intensity uses employee-band midpoints. The country table uses each company's headquarters, because a posting's location is free text with no country in it. Leadership-gap counts rest on our leadership data, which covers 53% of companies, and claim only what we can see.
The trend line counts only companies we were already watching, so adding new companies does not move it.
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