Marketing Hiring Looks Stable. It's Not.

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We wouldn’t want to be a junior marketer looking for a job in 2025.

Taligence’s Q3 Marketing Jobs Report just dropped, and the headline numbers look stable enough: 33,679 marketing roles at quarter-end, a mere -1.3% decline year-over-year. But there’s a lot going on behind that stable facade.

Senior roles—director-level and above—are up 5.3% year-over-year, and C-suite positions jumped 26.5%. Meanwhile, entry-level and generalist roles are getting squeezed, with entry/associate positions down 8.6% YoY. The average job posting is staying seven days longer than last quarter.

Companies are hiring fewer people, taking longer to decide, and when they do hire, they’re paying for experience and specialization.