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Careers and titles

More companies are tapping former CFOs to be the CEO

A 2024 analysis. Former CFOs started 4.93% of new CEO jobs in early 2024, up 24% on the 2018 to 2023 average of 3.97%.

1 July 2024

Hiring and job market

Is product manager hiring recovering in 2026?

US employers hired about nine outside PMs for every ten who left in 2025. AI or ML PM hiring is the part still growing.

8 October 2026

Public sector

A year after the deferred resignation program, where did federal leavers go?

Of people who left 21 federal agencies in 2025, 4.9% now hold another federal executive branch job, against 19.4% of 2024 leavers.

2 October 2026

Roles and skills

Marketing engineer is a rising role in tech

Tech firms had 75 people titled marketing engineer in July 2026, up from 49 a year earlier and the most since at least 2020.

2 October 2026

Careers and titles

CMOs leave their jobs more often than CFOs and CTOs

About 22 of every 100 US CMOs left their role and company in 2024, against about 16 of every 100 CFOs and CTOs.

7 October 2026

Hiring and job market

Who's hiring in tech in 2026: the data behind Lenny's job market report

The top companies hiring forward deployed engineers in 2026, from the data behind Lenny's job market report. Ask about your own role, free.

10 November 2026

Careers and titles

Founder titles are up 22% since 2023 while US hiring fell 11%

Founder title data for investors: how fast US founder titles are growing against hiring, whether they mean more startups, four signals that point to a real company, and how long founder titles last.

29 October 2026

Roles and skills

Nearly 6 in 10 marketers who take engineer roles become GTM engineers

GTM engineer hiring data for 2026: how many people start the job each year, where they come from, which companies hire them and how many marketers move into engineer titles.

28 October 2026

Education

MBA Class of 2025: where graduates land

Where did the MBA Class of 2025 land? About 1 in 6 start at ten employers. Live Data analysis of 3,177 graduates, and how to ask about your school.

27 October 2026

About half of new customer success heads leave the role within two years

Head of customer success tenure: about 54 in 100 heads of customer success who started in 2022 left the role within two years (44 for 2019 starters).

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

Which C-suite executives leave fastest? CROs, at twice the CEO rate

Executive tenure by role from Live Data Technologies: the share of ten senior roles that ended within two years, by start year 2019 to 2022.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

More than 4 in 10 new VPs of Marketing leave the role within two years

VP of Marketing tenure: about 46 in 100 VPs of Marketing who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 38 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

More than 4 in 10 new VPs of Sales leave the role within two years

VP of Sales tenure: about 43 in 100 VPs of Sales who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 35 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About 1 in 4 new general counsels leave the role within two years

General counsel tenure: about 26 in 100 general counsels who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 22 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About half of new chiefs of staff leave the role within two years

Chief of staff tenure: about 50 in 100 chiefs of staff who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 45 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

More than 4 in 10 new chief product officers leave the role within two years

Chief product officer tenure: about 43 in 100 chief product officers who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 30 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

More than a third of new COOs leave the role within two years

COO tenure: about 36 in 100 chief operating officers who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 28 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About 1 in 3 new CTOs leave the role within two years

CTO tenure: about 32 in 100 CTOs who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 26 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About 3 in 10 new chief people officers leave the role within two years

CHRO tenure: about 30 in 100 chief people officers who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 22 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About 1 in 4 new CEOs leave the role within two years

CEO tenure: about 26 in 100 CEOs who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 18 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About half of new CROs leave the role within two years

CRO tenure: about 52 in 100 chief revenue officers who started in 2022 left the role within two years, up from 36 in 2019.

20 October 2026

Careers and titles

About one in four early founding engineers who started in 2024 left within a year

Job histories of 15,009 people in the US who have held the founding engineer title since 2015: how long they stay, who was earliest on record, where they come from and how many later hold a founder or CEO title.

19 October 2026

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Live Data Research publishes analysis of how people move between jobs, built from Live Data Technologies data compiled from public information on the open web. Reporters can request data for a story.

Alex Hamilton

Head of Insights, Live Data Technologies

Alex leads Live Data's in-house analysis of workforce trends.