Largely white-collar enterprise markets: the roles it takes to develop software, and the organizational roles that support that work, from marketing to HR. Public editions of the market research inside CompoundCraft publish here. Free to read, no account.
Design leadership in enterprise is contracting structurally — senior design roles are being permanently eliminated rather than backfilled, and the organizational case for VP-level design is weakening.
Read the enterprise landscapeDemand is concentrating in AI-product ownership while conventional senior product roles stay open longer in a crowded candidate field.
The management layer is compressing: spans of control are widening, director and VP openings are thinning, and demand is shifting toward senior hands-on engineers.
AI is collapsing the execution layer beneath marketing leadership; senior strategy roles are holding while the org charts under them shrink.
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