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Swayable

swayable.com · B2B · Swayable is an ad testing and creative testing platform that measures advertising effectiveness with real consumer responses and RCTs.

16open roles
2new in 30 days
1closed in 30 days
2remote-eligible
steadyhiring velocity

What they're building

Inbound demand generation and marketing build-out moderate signal

Today: Ad and creative testing platform that measures brand lift with RCTs, plus brand tracking and research surveys

Roles: Director of Demand Generation · Marketing Manager, Events & Brand · Product Marketing & Sales Enablement Manager

Requirements mention: builds an inbound demand generation system that creates, captures, and converts high-intent pipeline · Demand Generation · lead scoring · pipeline creation · Sales enablement materials

Inference: Marketing (3 open roles, all in New York, NY) is adding demand generation, events and sales enablement capacity; the Director role is described as building an inbound demand generation system. The postings do not show the size of the wider plan.

Client success and account management for creative testing clients strong signal

Today: Deploy systematic creative testing across the enterprise to ensure creative and media investments generate real business value.

Roles: VP, Client Success · Account Director (New York, NY) · Account Director (San Francisco, CA) · Deployment Strategist · Client & Research Success Manager

Requirements mention: RCT design · retention · expansion · escalation management · client pitches · relationship development · test execution

Inference: Client Success is the largest department (5 open roles), spanning a VP, two Account Directors, a Deployment Strategist and a Client & Research Success Manager. The postings point to more client-facing testing work, with a senior leader being hired to run it.

AI analytics engine behind the core product moderate signal

Today: A cloud analytics product that measures public opinion and the impact of messages on it

Roles: Senior Software Engineer: AI (New York City) · Senior Software Engineer: AI (San Francisco)

Requirements mention: advancing the state of the art analytics engine that powers our core product · distributed, parallel computing systems · ML and AI Ops · machine learning · vectorized code

Inference: two Senior Software Engineer: AI postings (New York City and San Francisco) with overlapping requirements suggest work on the analytics engine itself, not only on its outputs. The San Francisco posting adds distributed computing and ML and AI Ops; the New York posting adds scikit-learn, Pandas and JavaScript.

Research data science on public opinion and causal modeling moderate signal

Today: Swayable's high-powered RCT measurements prove how creative and messaging impact brand love, favorability, and purchase intent.

Roles: Research Data Scientist (Remote) · Research Data Scientist (SF) · Research Data Scientist (NYC)

Requirements mention: experimental methodologies · causal modeling · statistical, analytical, and data science methods · production-quality python code · MongoDB databases

Inference: three Research Data Scientist openings across three locations, opened between 2026-02-13 and 2026-02-18 and still open, suggest an ongoing need for causal modeling and experimental methods in public opinion research. The postings do not show a new product.

AI-powered features in the Swayable platform weak signal

Today: Intelligent presentations and executive-ready end products from the platform

Roles: Product Manager

Requirements mention: AI-powered features · GenAI · prompt iterations · QA AI features · agentic graphs / swarms

No inference drawn: this is a single posting, open since 2025-08-15.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Client Success4
Marketing3
Data Science3
Engineering2
Finance & Ops1
Product1
Sales1
Z- General Submissions1

Of 17 listings (16 specific roles plus a general submissions listing), the largest groups are Client Success (5), Marketing (3), Data Science (3) and Engineering (2), and New York, NY is the most common location (7 postings).

Who they need

Seniority: Across the open postings: 9 mid-level, 4 director, 2 senior and 1 VP.

Skills named most: Python (6 postings), Excel (3), data visualization skills (3), production-quality python code (3), MongoDB (2), machine learning (2), HubSpot (2), client pitches (2), market research (2), project management (2), research design (2), test execution (2)

Locations: Postings list New York, NY (7), New York, NY or San Francisco, CA (2), San Francisco, CA (1), SF (1), NYC (1), New York City (1), San Francisco (1), and San Francisco or New York City (1). Two postings are marked remote: Research Data Scientist (listed as Remote) and General Submissions (listed as NYC, SF, Remote). The postings do not state which country the remote roles are tied to.

How to use this

If you're applying: If you work in client services, research design or Python-based data science, the Client Success and Research Data Scientist postings match these skills most directly. Check each fit line against the posting before you apply, and note the location each posting lists.

If you're selling or recruiting: Client Success is the largest group (5 roles), and Marketing has 3 roles in New York; start with these. In the last 30 days, 3 roles opened and none closed. The Strategic Sales Director role (New York, NY, opened 2025-06-03) is the only Sales posting and is not part of the building items above.

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Open roles (16)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Chief of StaffFinance & OpsNew York, NY2026-10-01
Marketing Manager, Events & BrandMarketingNew York, NY2026-10-01
Senior Software Engineer: AIEngineeringNew York City2026-09-03
Senior Software Engineer: AIEngineeringSan Francisco2026-09-03
Product Marketing & Sales Enablement ManagerMarketingNew York, NY2026-08-18
VP, Client SuccessClient SuccessNew York, NY2026-07-23
Account DirectorClient SuccessNew York, NY2026-07-23
Account DirectorClient SuccessSan Francisco, CA2026-07-23
Director of Demand GenerationMarketingNew York, NY2026-06-16
Research Data ScientistData ScienceRemote (remote)2026-02-18
Research Data ScientistData ScienceSF2026-02-18
Research Data ScientistData ScienceNYC2026-02-13
Product ManagerProductSan Francisco or New York City2025-08-15
Strategic Sales DirectorSalesNew York, NY2025-06-03
General Submissions, for any job not currently listedZ- General SubmissionsNYC, SF, Remote (remote)2024-02-20
Client & Research Success ManagerClient SuccessNew York, NY or San Francisco, CA2024-01-05