Open roles
3,684
+0% vs. 3,680 on August 7
AI in the job title
7.2%
+2.0 pts from 5.2%
Remote roles
25%
+2.1 pts from 23%
Pay listed
23%
+2.6 pts from 21%
Director level and up
27%
+0.2 pts from 27%
Entry level
5%
−0.6 pts from 6%
Median listed pay, US
$112K
+2% from $110K
Where agencies are hiring
Share of open roles by discipline, same 210 agencies. Data & AI gained the most share (+1.7 pts); Design & Creative lost the most (−3.4 pts).
Show the numbers as a table
| Discipline | Roles, August 7 | Share | Roles now | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy & Account | 855 | 23.2% | 777 | 21.1% | −2.1 pts |
| Design & Creative | 816 | 22.2% | 692 | 18.8% | −3.4 pts |
| Engineering | 625 | 17.0% | 664 | 18.0% | +1.0 pts |
| Marketing & Growth | 568 | 15.4% | 628 | 17.0% | +1.6 pts |
| Operations & Leadership | 468 | 12.7% | 524 | 14.2% | +1.5 pts |
| Data & AI | 188 | 5.1% | 249 | 6.8% | +1.7 pts |
| Business Development & Sales | 114 | 3.1% | 98 | 2.7% | −0.4 pts |
| Product | 46 | 1.2% | 52 | 1.4% | +0.2 pts |
Independent agencies vs. the networks
Since August 7, open roles at independent agencies grew (+9%) and at holding-company and group-owned agencies they shrank (−12%). Check before you cite: without the biggest single mover in each group, independents are +4% (without Artefact, +104 roles) and the networks are −10% (without Wunderman Thompson, −70 roles). Changes in points since August 7 sit beside each share.
| Independent | Holding company or group | |
|---|---|---|
| Agencies in the panel | 156 | 54 |
| Open roles | 2,308 +9% | 1,376 −12% |
| AI in the job title | 8.8% +2.8 pts | 4.4% +0.3 pts |
| Design & Creative share | 15.0% −3.1 pts | 25.1% −2.6 pts |
| Remote roles | 33.6% +0.5 pts | 10.3% +1.4 pts |
| Pay listed | 26.6% −0.1 pts | 18.2% +5.3 pts |
Ownership for each agency: ownership.json.
Hiring the most right now
- Wunderman Thompson 276 open roles
- Media.Monks 220 open roles
- Power Digital 189 open roles
- DEPT 144 open roles
- Artefact 114 open roles
- Hogarth 97 open roles
- Valtech 94 open roles
- Ogilvy 88 open roles
- Konrad Group 85 open roles
- Highwire PR 67 open roles
How the index works
- What it counts: open roles posted on the public careers boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) of the agencies Agency Roles tracks. We read every board every day.
- Same agencies, both dates: changes compare only the 210 agencies tracked on both August 7, 2026 and November 14, 2026, so adding agencies to the board never shows up as growth.
- Same rules, both dates: discipline, seniority and remote status are re-derived from each title and location with today's rules, for both snapshots.
- AI in the title: the title names AI, machine learning, LLMs, generative AI, prompts or agents. It counts roles built around AI, not every role that uses it.
- Pay: share of roles that list a pay range. Median pay uses US roles with a listed range, at the midpoint of the range.
- Independent: not owned by an advertising holding company (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, Dentsu, Havas, Stagwell, Hakuhodo, S4) or by a consulting, IT or multi-agency group (such as Accenture, Infosys, Brandtech or Next 15). Founder-owned and private-equity-backed agencies both count as independent. Ownership was checked against public sources in November 2026 for the agencies behind 85% of open roles; smaller agencies count as independent unless a public source says otherwise.
- Limits: agencies that hire without a public board are not counted. A role posted in several cities counts once per posting.
The index updates with every daily crawl and rolls to a new month on the 1st. Download the monthly snapshots (JSON).
Cite this
Agency Roles Hiring Index, November 2026. Open roles at 210 agencies, August 7, 2026 to November 14, 2026. https://agencyroles.com/hiring-index/
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