Subtypes & shapes · May 2026

What is a GTM Engineer?

Eight flavors, one role family.

Live database of 1,847 job listings (938 open), 2,317 named practitioners, and 1,324 hiring companies — sorted into eight archetypes that show how the role is taking shape across the market.

Updated 2026-09-12
AIAI fluencyGTMGTM knowledge / experienceDATAData analyticsEXPExperimentationCODECoding experience
Distribution

Where the open roles actually sit

Total roles per archetype, segmented by current status. The Notion daily refresh reclassifies any "Likely Open" posting that closed overnight; this is yesterday's snapshot.

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Geography

Where the roles are

Every role with a parsable city, plotted at scale by open-role count. Remote / global roles get a separate counter — they aren't anchored to a place.

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Hiring map

Who's hiring GTM Engineers right now

Top companies with at least one open GTME role. Each tile's area is the open-role count; toggle the color to see archetype mix, AI fluency, coding intensity, or open-vs-closed share. Inspired by Karpathy's US Job Market Visualizer. Click any tile to open that company's roles in the job board.

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The titles vary, the shapes vary, but the substrate is the same. Eight flavors of one role family — all rebuilding revenue motion as code.

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Market data

Demand vs. supply by profile

Blue = open roles (demand). Gray = named practitioners (supply). Where blue is much wider than gray, the market is tight. Fractional / Consulting and Executive / CoE Lead are the only buckets where supply already outpaces visible demand.

Outbound GTME396 · 647
Marketing Engineer44 · 135
Growth Engineer54 · 162
Revenue Architect / RevOps Systems86 · 267
Founding GTME58 · 53
Sales Engineer Hybrid29 · 87
Executive / CoE Lead82 · 226
AI Enablement Engineer38 · 19
AI Accelerator / Internal FDE30 · 51
Fractional / Consulting52 · 198
Hiring tightness

How hard each archetype is to hire for

Open roles per known practitioner. Higher = harder to fill from the existing visible talent pool. Anything above ~2.0 means the discipline is faster than the supply can catch up.

ProfileOpen rolesPractitionersTightnessRead
AI Enablement Engineer38192xDemand outpacing supply
Founding GTME58531.09xIn balance
Outbound GTME3966470.61xTalent exists; titling lagging
AI Accelerator / Internal FDE30510.59xTalent exists; titling lagging
Executive / CoE Lead822260.36xTalent exists; titling lagging
Marketing Engineer441350.33xTalent exists; titling lagging
Growth Engineer541620.33xTalent exists; titling lagging
Sales Engineer Hybrid29870.33xTalent exists; titling lagging
Revenue Architect / RevOps Systems862670.32xTalent exists; titling lagging
Fractional / Consulting521980.26xTalent exists; titling lagging
Tool fluency

Which tools each archetype hires for

Each cell is the share of open JDs in that profile that explicitly mention the tool. RevOps Systems is 50% Salesforce. Outbound is 43% Clay. Marketo is the signature of the new AI Accelerator profile. React + TypeScript prove Growth Engineer is genuinely an engineering role.

ProfileJDsClaySalesforceHubSpotMarketoPythonSQLTypeScriptReactClaude
Outbound GTME39642%42%29%22%19%18%
Marketing Engineer4415%20%18%14%13%13%9%
Growth Engineer5420%18%13%18%16%15%24%
Revenue Architect / RevOps Systems8616%52%23%13%15%9%
Founding GTME5842%25%22%20%20%
Sales Engineer Hybrid297%11%6%9%6%
Executive / CoE Lead827%16%8%5%3%4%
AI Enablement Engineer387%21%13%
AI Accelerator / Internal FDE3011%16%41%27%16%
Fractional / Consulting5237%16%28%8%
Adjacent variants

Customer-facing flavors we track separately

The eight archetypes above are internal, on-the-business roles. We also track two adjacent customer-facing flavors that share the same substrate.

The dataset

By the numbers, and where to dig in

938Open roles right now
1,847Total job listings tracked
2,317Named practitioners
1,324Hiring companies
10Archetypes
2026-09-12Last refresh
About this dataset

Based on a Notion-backed dataset of 1,847 job listings (938 open today) and 2,317 practitioners across 1,324 hiring companies, eight archetypes describe how the GTM Engineer is showing up in the market. Each tilts differently across AI fluency, GTM knowledge, data analytics, experimentation, and coding.

Roles come from job-board crawls (LinkedIn, Wellfound, YC, Built In, Teamtailor, Remote Rocketship) plus content sources (The Signal, GTMonly, State of GTM Engineering 2026, GTME Pulse, SyncGTM, Skaled). Each is classified into one of the eight archetypes via a deterministic flavor matcher and rated 1–10 across the five axes using keyword-mined heuristics. Practitioners come from public LinkedIn profiles already in role.

How this is built → · View Roles DB on Notion →

Source: live snapshot of the Notion-backed GTME database, refreshed daily. Last refresh 2026-09-12.Upside · GTM Engineer