RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – After a temporary slowdown last month, the Triangle’s job market is back up and running as 2022 kicks off. Several major job boards show the addition of thousands of Triangle-area jobs over the last seven days.

Every week, WRAL TechWire tracks the total number of Triangle-area openings listed on top job boards.

  • Glassdoor, for example, shows over 1,000 positions added across the RTP area compared to this time last week.
  • Indeed.com has nearly 1,300 more jobs in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill than it did seven days ago.
  • Weekly totals increased on Dice.com, Adzuna and LinkedIn as well.

This trend marks a change from previous weeks, when we reported notable weekly drops amid uncertainties about the Omicron COVID-19 variant, as well as a natural slowdown in hiring activity due to the holiday season.

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WRAL TechWire’s weekly Jobs Report compiles the latest information from the region’s top job boards, offering a breakdown of how many jobs are posted, which companies are hiring, and what positions are most in-demand. We’ve also included upcoming job fairs, student-centric resources, and a list of Twitter accounts that track local job openings.

Here’s what’s new since last week’s Jobs Report.

National Job Boards

Here’s a look at the total number of local jobs posted on national job boards compared to last week, as of Sunday evening.

  • Adzuna:
    • ⇑ Wake County: 42,552 jobs (+1 from a week ago)
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 24,049 (+105)
    • ⇑ Durham County: 10,303 (+549)
  • Dice.com (using the 5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 15,782 (+411)
    • ⇑ Durham: 15,621 (+441)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 15,415 (+426)
  • Glassdoor: 35,886 jobs across the Research Triangle Park area (+1,038)
  • Indeed (5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 16,669 (+261)
    • ⇑ Durham: 10,288 (+251)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 4,672 (+784)
  • InHerSight: Pages upon pages of jobs across the RTP area
  • LinkedIn (using the “exact location” and “0-miles” filters):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 27,583 (+718), with 7,700 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇓ Durham: 14,136 (-351), with 3,271 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 2,620 (+190), with 561 jobs posted in the past week
  • Remote Tech Jobs: Several remote jobs offered by Triangle-area employers
  • ZipRecruiter (5-mile filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 33,352 (+130)
    • ⇓ Durham: 14,787 (-71)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 3,795 (+151)

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (253 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (8,640 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (348 startup jobs in/near RTP) and AngelList (job openings in Raleigh, Durham and across North Carolina).

Here’s a look at local and regional job sites, listed in alphabetical order:

AMA Triangle

AMA Triangle, the fifth-largest chapter in American Marketing Association’s nationwide network, aims to be a go-to resource for all things marketing in the Triangle. AMA Triangle provides professional training, free career webinars and a job board offering free resume placement for marketing professionals.

As of Sunday evening, AMA Triangle’s job board shows 63 marketing jobs in Raleigh, 24 in Durham and 18 in Chapel Hill (using the 25-mile radius filter).

Six local jobs were added to the site over the last seven days:

  • Duke University is hiring an assistant director for fundraising communications in Durham.
  • Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo seeks a marketing coordinator in Raleigh (or hybrid).
  • North Carolina Bar Association added an opening for a marketing specialist in Cary.
  • Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources is hiring a marketing communications analyst in Raleigh.
  • Siemens posted a listing for a marketing and communications manager in Wendell.
  • Verizon is looking to hire a 5G product marketing consultant in Cary.

American Underground

Durham-based startup hub American Underground regularly posts job openings on its job board. Job seekers can filter their search by company, location and job function. As of Sunday evening, the site shows 224 jobs at 44 companies.

Ten jobs were added to the site over the last week:

  • California-based parking operator platform AirGarage added three remote job openings: Data engineer, launch operations project manager and head of engineering.
  • Health care firm Aledade added four openings in Raleigh for a registered nurse care manager, a pharmacist, a nurse practitioner and a licensed clinical social worker.
  • Direct Supply, a health care equipment and services provider, seeks a full stack software engineer in Durham.
  • Durham-based data science firm NoviSci is hiring a director/senior director of clinical operations and evidence solutions.
  • Pet food company Wild Earth is looking to hire an executive assistant in Raleigh.

Bio Jobs Hub

Last year, WRAL TechWire and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center launched a Bio Jobs Hub platform focused on biopharma manufacturing — one of North Carolina’s largest industries, employing over 26,000 people.

Typical biopharma jobs include process technicians, maintenance and/or instrumentation technicians, quality assurance and quality control associates, process development scientists and process engineers. This industry also offers competitive entry-level salaries, from $42,000 to $60,000.

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Scientists, skilled laborers and recent graduates can use the Bio Jobs Hub resource to find career and training opportunities in their area. Users can search by location, job category/activity and region.

Many biopharma companies are hiring in the Triangle, including large employers like Biogen in Research Triangle Park, bioMérieux in Durham, GSK in Zebulon, Merck & Co. in Durham, Novo Nordisk in Durham and Clayton, Pfizer in Sanford, and others.

Leadership Triangle

Leadership Triangle’s job board is packed with local jobs. The site displays 592 openings at 28 companies as of Sunday evening.

Here’s what’s been posted in the last week:

  • Bank of America is hiring financial solutions advisor trainees in Durham and Knightdale and Merrill financial solutions advisors in Raleigh and Chapel Hill.
  • Bland Landscaping seeks a commercial landscaping installation manager in Apex.
  • Blue Cross NC added several job openings in Durham, including senior strategic advisor, early career talent program manager, innovation and new ventures manager, recovery manager, senior business communications and operations advisor, digital messaging expansion product owner, strategic advisor of innovation and new ventures, senior manager of commercial claims, senior business analyst, state government affairs manager, episodic case manager, government pharmacy AVP, team leader, health coach and communications specialist.
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (WRAL TechWire’s parent company) is hiring a digital product manager, a facility maintenance technician, an HR recruiter and an account executive in Raleigh.
  • Coastal Credit Union posted three openings in Raleigh for a project manager, an account representative and a teller.
  • Compass Center for Women and Families is hiring a bilingual self-sufficiency coordinator.
  • Google posted several remote and Triangle-based jobs:
    • Chapel Hill: Chrome graphics software engineer
    • Durham: Google Fiber financial analyst
    • Raleigh: Cloud engineering manager, cloud data analyst and program manager, developer insights lead, cloud strategy and planning operations program manager, cloud customer insights analyst and cloud customer experience infrastructure consultant
    • Remote: Distributed cloud technical writing manager, construction contracting and supply chain management program manager, games and cloud industry solutions consultant, head of logistics flow, infrastructure modernization sales engineer, security specialist Chrome partner engineer, global data centers public affairs manager, embedded security senior software engineer, cloud professional services program management office lead, Android systems engineer, federal government field sales representative, state and local field sales representative, cloud principal architect, cloud field sales representative, SAP business systems analyst, cloud solutions architect, devices and services application engineer, faculty in residence, business-to-business content strategist and site delivery manager
  • Medicago added two manufacturing operator jobs in Durham.
  • North Carolina Central University is hiring a senior scientist, two assistant professors, a comptroller and a paralegal in Durham.
  • Self-Help Credit Union seeks a real estate project manager in Durham.
  • Truist added several openings across its Triangle-area locations:
    • Carrboro: Teller/senior teller
    • Cary: Relationship banker/senior relationship banker
    • Chapel Hill: Relationship banker and on-demand teller
    • Durham: Surety bond account manager
    • Raleigh: Tellers/senior tellers (two openings), commercial real estate analyst, IS systems specialist, DevSecOps engineer, inside sales agent and software engineer

NCBiotech

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s extensive jobs board lists open jobs and internships from local life science companies and research organizations. Users can filter by job category, employment type (full-time, part-time and contractor), keywords, postal code and radius.

NCBiotech also touts jobs through its Bio Jobs Hub program.

Several jobs were added to NCBiotech’s job board over the last week (since Jan. 3):

  • Lab assistant at BridgeBio Gene Therapy in Raleigh
  • GMP technical operations scientist/engineer, research technician (two openings), grants and contracts manager, SOM GMP program administration director and postdoctoral associate at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
  • Research technician at the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute in Durham
  • Research technician at Duke University in Durham
  • Grant writing specialist scientific consultant at Eva Garland Consulting in Raleigh
  • Remote clinical development lead at Evecxia Therapeutics
  • RTP’s Life Edit Therapeutics added several openings, including associate director/director of program and alliance management, associate iPSC biology scientist, chemistry manufacturing and controls director, protein chemistry scientist, protein engineering scientist/senior scientist, senior associate protein scientist, iPSC biology scientist, associate director/director of CNS preclinical development, director/senior director of gene editing vector core, and nonviral delivery senior director.
  • Merck & Co. posted several jobs in Durham, including operations instrument technician, senior operations technician, senior instrumentation technician, senior manufacturing automation specialist, compliance and emergency response technician, operations manager (two openings), associate project management director, utilities manager, site sourcing specialist, shopfloor/lab IT life cycle management analyst, senior quality control specialist, mechanical service engineer associate specialist, senior quality assurance specialist, lead metrology technician, senior continuous improvement lead, associate engineering director, senior manufacturing automation specialist and maintenance technician.
  • Preclinical study director at Powered Research in RTP
  • Bioinformatics data scientist at Precision BioSciences in Durham
  • Military internships for maintenance mechanics and warehouse operations at Seqirus Holly Springs (via NCBiotech’s Veterans Outreach Program)
  • Research associate at Tavros Therapeutics in Durham

Note: This list does not include openings posted by recruiting/staffing firms.

NC TECH

The North Carolina Technology Association (NC TECH) has an interactive job board that you can use to find your next career opportunity. Users can search by keyword, location, category, type (full-time or part-time) and experience level.

Five jobs were added to the site over the last week:

  • Digital commerce platform commercetools posted four job openings for a public relations/communications manager, an integrated marketing manager, a corporate journalist/storyteller and a field marketing manager.
  • Jackrabbit Technologies, a class management platform for children’s activity centers, is looking to hire a remote SaaS data analyst. (The company is located in Huntersville, just outside of Charlotte, but it allows all employees to work remotely.)

NCWorks

NCWorks, the statewide job search portal run by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, has nearly 100 career centers located across the state. Users can filter NCWorks’ database by keyword, location, occupation group or specific occupations, minimum acceptable salary, education level, job sources and date posted. NCWorks also has a mobile app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

North Carolina military veterans, transitioning service members and spouses can find additional resources on NCWorks’ separate veterans portal.

About 1,600 resumes were updated on the site in the past week, as of Sunday evening. NCWorks reports thousands of available positions across the Triangle area.

In Wake County, the top employers with the most job openings on NCWorks are*:

  • Wake County Public School System
  • North Carolina State University
  • WakeMed Health and Hospitals
  • UNC Health Care System
  • Lenovo

Here are the top companies/organizations by job openings in Durham County:

  • Duke University
  • Durham Public Schools
  • Duke University Health System
  • Fidelity Investments
  • IQVIA

And here are the top employers in Orange County:

  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • UNC Health Care System
  • Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
  • AHS NurseStat
  • Orange County Schools

*Note: This data was gathered through NCWorks’ Labor Market Information portal, which aggregates public job listings. NC Commerce confirmed with TechWire that this search pathway has a thorough process to remove duplicate job listings. Check employers’ websites directly for the latest information.

Raleigh Founded

Raleigh Founded, a startup incubator and coworking space, has its own job board. Job seekers can filter results by company, company size or industry. The site currently lists 161 positions at 30 companies, as of Sunday evening.

Ten new job openings were added to the site last week:

  • Agtech firm EarthOptics is hiring a sensor and equipment use specialist and a procurement and asset management specialist in Raleigh.
  • Levitate, a client communications software firm, posted an opening for a sales manager in Raleigh.
  • Product design and development firm MedPharm seeks a data quality control associate in Durham.
  • Raleigh-based software startup Pendo is hiring a customer community marketing manager, a senior go-to-market analyst and a global support director.
  • Cloud software provider Veeva Systems added three openings in Raleigh for a senior Python software engineer, a senior Java software engineer and a senior front-end software engineer.

Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster

This isn’t a job board per se, but the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster’s list of job search sources is a helpful resource for job seekers in the clean energy sector. The list has links to career opportunities from the organization’s members and partners.

Triangle Region Job Board

Leadership Triangle, Raleigh Founded and American Underground teamed up to create the Triangle Region Job Board, which synthesizes all of the openings posted on the organizations’ job boards. (Those openings are listed under their respective subheadings above.)

As of Sunday evening, the site shows 2,153 jobs at 86 companies. The latest Triangle-area openings (excluding remote jobs) come from the following employers:

  • Aledade (Raleigh)
  • Bank of America (Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Knightdale)
  • Bland Landscaping (Apex)
  • Blue Cross NC (Durham)
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (Raleigh)
  • Citrix (Raleigh)
  • Coastal Credit Union (Raleigh)
  • Direct Supply (Durham)
  • EarthOptics (Raleigh)
  • Google (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill)
  • Levitate (Raleigh)
  • Medicago (Durham)
  • MedPharm (Durham)
  • North Carolina Central University (Durham)
  • Pendo (Raleigh)
  • Self-Help Credit Union (Durham)
  • Truist (Cary, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham)
  • Veeva Systems (Raleigh)
  • Wild Earth (Raleigh)

Work in the Triangle

Work in the Triangle, a Wake County Economic Development program, shares new openings daily through its Twitter feed, @WorkTriangleNC. And the search continues to be intense for talent to fill thousands of open jobs both inside and outside the Triangle tech sector.

Every Tuesday, Work in the Triangle’s #TriangleTuesdays hashtag lists hot jobs in the area. Here’s a recap of last week’s openings (from Jan. 4):

Scroll through the #TriangleTuesdays hashtag on Twitter for more details on the openings.

New Jobs at Terra Dotta

Chapel Hill-based edtech company Terra Dotta told TechWire last week that it’s continuing to hire in the Triangle area after adding more than 20 people to its team last year. Currently at 78 employees, Terra Dotta anticipates adding nearly two dozen new hires this year as it builds out its global engagement platform, which helps colleges and universities connect all aspects of international programming and campus services.

“Fortunately, we’re in a good position as interest in global engagement continues to grow,” Terra Dotta CEO Anthony Rotoli says. “2021 was a record year for Terra Dotta, in spite of the pandemic, and we are entering an exciting growth phase. We plan to hire 20+ more people in 2022 across the entire organization and are looking at a 100+ headcount this time next year.”

Terra Dotta’s current job openings span product development, client support, general and administrative teams. Read more and apply here.

“We always try to hire in the Triangle area first and then move to hiring remote if we can’t fill the position locally/hybrid,” Rotoli added. “Competition is steep for new talent.” 

Upcoming Job Fairs and Career Events

NC TECH Virtual Job Expo: Feb. 9, 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (online)

This virtual job fair is designed for candidates seeking tech-related jobs or internships. Local employers can meet with job seekers in virtual booths. Registration is free for job seekers.

https://wraltechwire.com/event/nc-tech-virtual-job-expo-2/

Wake Tech Community College Business & IT Spring 2022 Career Fair: Feb. 9, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. (online)

In February 2022, Wake Tech will host an online job fair for business and information technology students looking for new career opportunities.

https://wraltechwire.com/event/wake-tech-community-college-business-it-spring-2022-career-fair/

NC State Startup Job & Resource Fair: Feb. 23, 4-6 p.m. @NC State Entrepreneurship Garage

NC State Entrepreneurship and Raleigh Founded are co-hosting a job and resource fair for students interested in joining a startup team or starting their own venture.

https://wraltechwire.com/event/startup-job-resource-fair/

More Job Resources for Local Students

If you’re a student looking for an internship or entry-level position at a local company or organization, your university has resources to help you get started. Quick links below:

Twitter Accounts to Follow

Here are some locally run Twitter accounts that regularly share job openings in the Triangle: