As Anthropic slows its hiring, OpenAI keeps growing, especially in go-to-market
Open job postings at OpenAI and Anthropic · Nov 10, 2025 to Jun 22, 2026
OpenAI is in a hiring boom. Its open job postings just reached a high of 713, up 69% from 422 last November, and the line is still climbing. Anthropic is moving the other way: after peaking near 478 roles in April, its board has pulled back 19% to 387. Six months ago both labs were expanding. Now the two leaders are hiring in opposite directions.
OpenAI's open roles keep climbing; Anthropic's have fallen back
Total open job postings at each lab, reconstructed from every posting's open and close dates
OpenAI open roles
713
+69% since November
Anthropic open roles
387
down 19% from peak
OpenAI's lead
1.8×
more open roles
For all that divergence, the two boards still want the same kind of people. Both put the majority of their openings into technical roles, engineering, research, and product: 57% at OpenAI and 58% at Anthropic. The mix barely differs between them. What separates the two labs is not which roles they value, but how fast each is growing.
Both labs still hire mostly for technical roles
Share of each lab's open roles by function · OpenAI leans more commercial, but only by a little
Where OpenAI pulls ahead is go-to-market. Go-to-market, the sales, marketing, and solutions teams that put the product in front of customers, is its largest commercial area and the function where it most outhires Anthropic: 224 open roles to Anthropic's 100, a 2.2 times gap. The gap narrows in proportional terms: go-to-market is 31% of OpenAI's openings and 26% of Anthropic's, so much of it simply reflects that OpenAI is hiring more of everything. But OpenAI has roughly doubled its go-to-market hiring since November, while Anthropic's is back where it started.
Go-to-market is OpenAI's biggest commercial area, and its fastest-growing
Open go-to-market roles at each lab. Toggle between absolute counts and share of each board.
OpenAI GTM roles
224 (31%)
of 713 open
Anthropic GTM roles
100 (26%)
of 387 open
In absolute terms
2.2×
OpenAI's GTM vs Anthropic's
What go-to-market means at each lab
Open go-to-market roles by sub-function · counts, not shares
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Source: Timeplot, based on OpenAI and Anthropic job postings. Fixed window Nov 10, 2025 to Jun 22, 2026. Roles are grouped into functions from each posting's title and team; blank, untitled listings are excluded so the two boards compare fairly. “Go-to-market” covers sales, marketing, solutions and partnerships, and customer success.