Roles
Is your job category winning the AI transition?
350,224 roles tracked across the index, by function — the same real headcount data as the boards, cut by what people actually do. AI-native growth vs legacy SaaS, side by side.
Widest gap right now: Finance — AI-natives +126% vs legacy SaaS +2% over 12 months.
FunctionRoles trackedAI-native 12moLegacy 12mo
Finance7,247+126%+2%Customer support26,826+101%+5%Sales41,304+94%+7%People & HR9,928+83%-2%Marketing16,341+84%0%Sales engineering12,319+84%+4%Partnerships5,905+80%+5%Creative4,197+73%0%Legal2,818+69%+2%Engineering134,760+57%+4%Product17,887+54%+2%Fulfillment9,514+43%-2%Operations29,715+46%+2%Professional services9,333+44%+6%Analysts & data19,701+23%0%Research2,429-1%-8%How to read this: each growth figure is the 12-month change in that function's headcount, weighted by team size across every reporting company on that side of the index (source: PDL v25 — snapshot frozen as of the July 2026 harvest; role-level data refreshes only on calibration re-harvests). Weighting by headcount keeps one tiny team's +300% from distorting a function's story. Sorted by the AI-native vs legacy gap — the wider the gap, the harder the transition is redrawing that function.