If you are listening from outside the United States, I want to make this episode as useful to you as I can, and that means starting somewhere unusual. Not with who is hiring. With who has actually put their name on a government form to bring somebody in.
Because "we're open to sponsorship" is a sentence anyone can say on a careers page. A certified Department of Labor filing is a different kind of object. It means the company went through the process, for a real person, and the paperwork cleared. It is a paper trail rather than a promise, and this week six companies hiring in New York have one.
Anthropic has nineteen certified filings in the last twelve months, at a median sponsored wage of about a hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Stripe has thirty-six, median two hundred and sixty-eight thousand. Databricks, eighteen filings, median about a hundred and sixty thousand. Lyft, thirteen, at a hundred and forty. Scale AI, ten, at two hundred and fifty thousand. And Sierra AI, five filings, at a hundred and eighty thousand.
Those wage numbers are medians of what was filed, not what you will be offered. But they tell you the level the company was hiring at when it decided sponsorship was worth the trouble, and that is a real signal about where you should be aiming your application.
Now, the thing I would not want you to misread. That is not a list of every company in New York that sponsors. It is a list of companies that are hiring right now and have filed before. A company with no filings might sponsor you tomorrow — plenty of young companies sponsor their first hire with no record at all. Absence of evidence is doing a lot of work in this dataset, and I would rather say that plainly than let you cross names off a list you built from my show.
Which is the right moment for the new arrivals, because they cut both ways.
Eight employers are new to the set we track in New York. I can name six. Chime, Vercel and Axon have each sponsored occasionally. Airbnb sponsors actively. Faire and Patreon have no filings on record at all. A newly arrived employer is usually competing for a much smaller pile of applications than an established one hiring at the same pace, and that edge decays in weeks — so this is a this-month advantage, not a this-quarter one.
Here is what makes New York different from every other market I look at, and it took me by surprise. The biggest single category of work here is not infrastructure. It is not even AI. It is product and design — a hundred and fourteen open roles out of five hundred and seventy-five posted over the last ninety days, just under a fifth of everything. Brex has sixteen of them. Anthropic eleven. Ramp and Figma eight each, Robinhood seven.
If you are a product designer or a product manager, you have spent two years hearing that the market moved to machine learning and left you behind. In this city, this quarter, that is not what the board says. It says the largest concentration of open work is yours.
AI and machine learning is right behind at a hundred and seven roles, and infrastructure at a hundred and four, so I do not want to overstate it — these three are close. Security and trust is sixty-six roles. Anthropic alone accounts for eighteen of them. Below that it thins out fast: frontend and mobile is twenty-nine, forward-deployed twenty-seven, engineering leadership twenty-five, backend twenty-three, data twenty-one.
Two caveats belong right there with those numbers rather than at the end. The shares come from currently open roles and they are solid. The movement figures we also compute compare against older windows that systematically lose whatever already got filled, so I am not reading those out. And every one of these categories comes from job titles alone. We parse descriptions and throw them away, never store them — so a security role here is what the title said, not what the requirements asked for.
On movement, briefly. Anthropic is accelerating, and it is the sharpest pickup in this market's data. LangChain is accelerating too. Going the other way, Harvey AI has slowed sharply — and before you read anything into that, a slowdown usually means a hiring push is finishing rather than a company being in trouble. From the outside, filling your roles and stopping look identical.
And if you want the list I would actually save, it is the quieter one. LangChain has twenty-two roles open in this city. Perplexity nineteen. Stripe fifteen. Chime ten. Lyft eight. SoFi four. None of those names show up on the top-employer lists people scrape, which means the applications per role are a fraction of what Anthropic is getting.
Now the money, and New York's version of this story is smaller and stranger than San Francisco's. Two fresh filings. Ultra Robotics told the SEC it sold about fifty-seven million dollars in securities, three days ago. K Health, just under fifty-nine million, five days ago. That is a Form D — a short notice a company files after selling shares to private investors, reporting the total sold under an offering rather than a single round, which is why I say disclosed and never attach a letter to it.
Neither has posted a role since. The useful number underneath that is thirty to ninety days, the typical gap between money landing and listings appearing. Both of those companies are inside the first week of that gap. You are ahead of their job board, not behind it, and one specific paragraph about the thing you would build for them will never again be as easy to send as it is right now.
Two limits before I let you go, and they matter more here than they would in California.
We have no layoff feed for New York. The layoff records this show uses come from California's WARN system, which by construction covers California. So when I tell you this market shows no layoff notices in ninety days, hear that correctly: it means we are not looking, not that nothing happened. I will not pretend a blind spot is good news.
Second, we have ten weeks of history for New York and only three of them were watched live. The rest were reconstructed from job boards after the fact, which under-counts, because a board only shows what is still open. I am also not going to tell you how many roles went up this week, because for this market that number reads as zero, and zero is a measurement artifact rather than a quiet week.
One last number, and it is the hard one. Of those five hundred and seventy-five roles, six were entry level or new grad. Six. A hundred and forty-nine were staff or above, a hundred and forty-five senior, ninety-eight management, and a hundred and seventy-seven never said. If you are starting out, the board is not where your month should go. The two companies that just filed with the SEC and have not written a job posting yet — that is where being early still counts for something.
One quick thing before the fine print. Everything behind this episode — the New York board, the companies I named and the ones I ran out of time for — is at hiringclimate.com. It is free, and it is the same data I read to make this. And if this was useful, like the show or follow it wherever you are listening. That is genuinely how other people find it.
One last thing, and it is about this show rather than about the market. This episode was written by an AI system, and the voice reading it to you is synthetic. The facts underneath it are not: every number here comes from a public filing, a job board or a government record, and it can be checked. But nobody sat down and wrote this, and you should know that before you act on it.