RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – WRAL TechWire’s latest weekly count of local positions on national job boards reveals a boost for most Triangle cities, in timing with record growth across the high-tech job market.

Every Sunday, we track the total number of Triangle-area positions posted on major job websites, then we compare it to the previous week’s count. Indeed.com, for example, has 1,944 more jobs than it did a week ago across Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Johnston County. Glassdoor shows 937 more jobs across the RTP area than it did last Sunday, and ZipRecruiter also added 1,922 jobs in Raleigh, 851 in Durham and 27 in Johnston County.

As TechWire covered last week, information technology job openings in North Carolina climbed to a record high in March. Per the latest “IT Job Trends” report from NC TECH, there were 49,143 IT openings across the state last month, up 38% from March 2021.

Despite a hot tech job market and week-to-week growth in Triangle openings, a recent WalletHub report ranked North Carolina No. 11 among states where employers are struggling the most with hiring new workers. The report indicates that North Carolina saw a 7.30% rate of job openings over the last month and a 7.08% rate of openings over the last 12 months—placing it ahead of South Carolina (with 7.60% over the last month and the last year) but behind other neighboring states, including Virginia (7.10% and 6.88%, respectively) and Tennessee (7.30% and 6.79%).

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.

Below, we’ll review what’s new since last week’s Jobs Report.

Local Jobs on 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 afternoon.

  • Adzuna:
    • ⇓ Wake County: 55, 361 jobs (-808 from a week ago)
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 35,877 (+60)
    • ⇓ Durham County: 12,708 (-244)
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 3,126 (+187)
  • Dice.com (using the 5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 18,854 (+151)
    • ⇓ Durham: 18,683 (-195)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 18,460 (+176)
  • Glassdoor: ⇑ 40,182 jobs across the Research Triangle Park area (+937)
  • Indeed (5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 19,849 (+1,569), with 3,799 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇑ Durham: 11,323 (+128), with 1,578 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 5,304 (+233), with 808 jobs posted in the last seven days
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 911 (+14), with 143 jobs posted in the last seven days
  • InHerSight: Pages upon pages of jobs across the RTP area
  • LinkedIn (using the “exact location” and “0-miles” filters):
    • ⇓ Raleigh: 30,894 (-835), with 7,619 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇓ Durham: 17,227 (-236), with 3,595 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 3,013 (+197), with 478 jobs posted in the past week
    • ⇓ Johnston County: 1,626 (-54), with 377 jobs posted in the past week
  • Remote Tech Jobs: Several remote jobs offered by Triangle-area employers
  • ZipRecruiter (5-mile filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 43,278 (+1,922)
    • ⇑ Durham: 17,625 (+851)
    • ⇓ Chapel Hill: 874 (-3,230)*
    • ⇑ Johnston County: 379 (+27)

*Note: Since this is a huge drop compared to what we normally see in a given week, and the other sites did not show a week-to-week trend reaching the same scale in Chapel Hill, we’re assuming it’s an anomaly for now. We’ll keep an eye on the totals for next week’s Jobs Report.

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (266 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (12,006 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (338 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. The organization provides professional training, free career webinars and a job board offering free resume placement for marketing professionals.

As of Sunday afternoon, AMA Triangle’s job board shows 104 marketing jobs in Raleigh, 50 in Durham and 30 in Chapel Hill (using the 25-mile radius filter). Six local jobs were added to the site over the last week:

  • Advance Auto Parts seeks a marketing field analyst and a senior marketing and ecommerce analyst in Raleigh.
  • Marsh McLennan Agency seeks an industry marketing specialist in Raleigh.
  • Verizon is hiring an enterprise product marketing manager in Cary. (Side news: Verizon announced last week that it’s raising its hourly wages and offering sign-on bonuses for some positions.)
  • Wells Fargo posted two jobs in Raleigh for a talent marketing and CRM lead and a technology production communications lead.

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 afternoon, the site shows 273 jobs at 54 companies. Over a dozen job openings were posted in the last week:

  • Real estate startup Acre Labs is hiring a remote data scientist.
  • Healthcare firm Aledade seeks a remote pharmacy technician.
  • Elevate Labs, a brain training app developer, posted two remote openings for a senior DevOps engineer and a head of growth partnerships.
  • Edtech startup LearnPlatform is hiring a customer onboarding specialist in Raleigh.
  • Digital asset startup Niftyblu is hiring coding/machine learning interns in Durham.
  • Durham-based data science firm NoviSci posted six jobs, including contracts specialist (two openings), commercial counsel (two openings) and senior in-house clinical research associate (two openings).
  • Insurtech startup Noyo added two remote openings for a fulfillment manager and a business intelligence and data analytics lead.
  • Durham’s ProcessMaker, a provider of workflow automation software, is looking to hire a remote sales engineer.
  • Edtech startup Upswing seeks a remote content marketing specialist.
  • Written Word Media, a book promotion platform, is looking to hire a remote VP of marketing.

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 1,516 openings at 30 companies as of Sunday afternoon.

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

  • Bank of America posted openings for a market supervision manager in Raleigh and two consumer investment financial solutions advisors in Raleigh and Durham.
  • Blue Cross NC posted nine job openings in Durham, including managing counsel contracting director, sales director, business process associate, senior data and technology advisor, customer service representative (bilingual), senior user experience researcher, customer service representative, senior data scientist and director of business intelligence analytics.
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (WRAL TechWire’s parent company) seeks a TV news photographer and a TV editor (part-time) in Raleigh.
  • Coastal Credit Union posted five openings in Raleigh, including account resolution specialist, internal IT auditor, client relations coordinator, application developer and account manager in Raleigh.
  • Fidelity Investments posted many local job openings:
    • Cary: Planning consultant
    • Durham: Senior systems services and support analyst, VP of blockchain and digital assets retirement product solutions, technical director of SRE engineering and observation, full-stack software engineer (three openings), senior manager of philanthropic research, principal software engineer (multiple openings), principal data engineer (five openings), senior data engineer (three openings), senior software engineer (multiple openings), senior full-stack data engineer, business analysis consultant, software engineer (two openings), principal cybersecurity analyst, Medicare services quality and control analyst, principal AWS cloud engineer, senior process/data analyst, data architecture director, healthcare operations Scrum manager, principal UX content strategist (two openings), principal iOS developer, site reliability director, full-stack data engineer, principal ECS program analyst, digital resiliency architect director, senior UX developer, data analytics and insights manager, senior database administrator, cyber fraud capability engineering director, senior full-stack software engineer (two openings), senior systems analyst, principal operating systems programmer, crypto client service associate (two openings), site reliability engineering director, senior manager of digital asset services customer service, mid/senior Scrum master/systems analyst, ECS systems analyst, Agile coach, principal full-stack engineer (several openings), director of client solutions technology engineering, director of cloud software engineering, architecture VP, digital service experience consultant, engineering director of omnichannel digital experiences, product management principal, senior data analytics and insights manager, workplace planning associate (2020-2022 undergraduates), senior data scientist, data management enablement director, cyber fraud capability software engineer, pension benefit analyst, principal systems analyst (two openings), site reliability engineer, software engineering development director and business intelligence engineer
  • Medicago is looking to hire a senior director of operational excellence in Durham.
  • Me Fine Foundation seeks an outreach coordinator in Durham.
  • North Carolina Central University posted five job openings in Durham, including academic advisor, finance and analytics officer, coordinator of student transition and engagement, building environmental services technician and organization behavior assistant/associate professor.
  • Self-Help Credit Union seeks a member services representative and an administrative associate in Durham.
  • Truist posted several job openings across the Triangle area:
    • Cary: Teller/senior teller and relationship banker
    • Durham: Senior relationship banker
    • Morrisville: Senior relationship banker
    • Pittsboro: Relationship banker and branch leader
    • Raleigh: Cybersecurity engineer (multiple openings), cybersecurity innovation lead strategist, strategic initiatives delivery officer, CCB CRE analyst (two openings), principal user experience designer, wealth business unit senior vendor manager, teller/senior teller, commercial real estate analyst, internal control monitoring and testing advisor, internal auditor, senior user experience designer and associate infrastructure engineer/network engineer
    • Sanford: Relationship banker
  • William Peace University is hiring a counseling director in Raleigh.

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.

Here is what’s new over the last week:

  • Product development engineer (paid intern to full-time) at Ascent Bio-Nano Technologies in Morrisville
  • Immunology process development scientist at CoImmune in Durham
  • Toxicology study program leader and research technician at Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
  • Chemist/biochemist (paid intern to full-time) at MedKoo Biosciences in Morrisville
  • Merck & Co. posted several openings in Durham, including lab automation specialist, maintenance technician, senior maintenance technician, remote automation engineer/business consultant, senior site learning specialist, lab quality control senior specialist, technician (three openings), senior specialist of lab operations quality, senior data and analytics specialist, lead instrumentation technician, operations manager, senior instrumentation technician, senior manufacturing operations technician, senior engineering maintenance technician, senior maintenance planner/scheduler, associate maintenance planner/scheduler, senior specialist in quality/maintenance/reliability engineering and maintenance planner/scheduler.
  • Manufacturing associate, associate director of analytical development and analytical development associate at Precision BioSciences in Durham
  • Project manager at Ribometrix in Durham
  • Seqirus posted several openings in Holly Springs, including senior mRNA director, maintenance mechanic (two openings), HVAC/HEPA mechanic, utilities mechanic, maintenance planner (two openings), packaging process engineer (two openings), global R&D senior financial analyst (hybrid), senior HR business partner, global HRBP operations director, bulk manufacturing engineer, manufacturing quality systems specialist, manufacturing associate, cell culture engineer, engineer, bulk manufacturing associate, manufacturing specialist, manufacturing associate graduate development program participants, tech services engineer, process scientist, bulk materials support associate, senior R&D QA specialist, QC stability coordinator analyst, QC microbiology analyst, fill finish specialist, QC senior compliance specialist (two openings), QC environmental monitoring analyst, QA supplier management specialist, auditor, QA specialist, clinical quality control manager, clinical QC chemistry/biochemistry team lead, clinical QC molecular biology team leader (two openings), clinical QC cell biology team leader, statistician, CMC senior regulatory affairs manager (two openings), process and product development director, CMC regulatory affairs manager, scientific associate (four openings), CMC and R&D senior program manager, scientist (five openings), senior director of CMC vaccines, R&D technology transfer and technical project management director, logistics and warehouse team leader, senior manager of global supply chain operations, global category manager and supply chain planner.
  • Senior research associate/lab manager and associate director of in vivo pharmacology at Torque Bio 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. 

A few positions were added to the site last week:

  • IT consulting firm 360 Cloud Solutions posted three job openings in Raleigh: Senior FP&A consultant, senior NetSuite consultant in managed services and senior NetSuite consultant in manufacturing.
  • Raleigh-based Rownd, a provider of IT and data privacy services, posted a remote job listing for an experienced front-end software engineer.

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.

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

About 1,032 resumes were updated on the site in the past week, as of Sunday afternoon. NCWorks reports thousands of available positions across the Triangle area.

Top organizations

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

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

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

  • Duke University
  • Durham Public Schools
  • Duke University Health System
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Cree Wolfspeed

The top employers in Johnston County are:

  • Johnston County Public Schools
  • Johnston Health
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Grifols
  • MGA Homecare

And here are the top employers in Orange County:

  • UNC Health Care System
  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
  • Orange County Schools
  • Piedmont Health Services

*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 178 positions at 30 companies as of Sunday afternoon. Four new jobs were posted over the last week:

  • Edtech startup LearnPlatform is looking to hire a customer onboarding specialist in Raleigh.
  • Durham’s MedPharm, a contract development and manufacturing organization, is hiring a study director/study manager.
  • Raleigh software startup Pendo seeks a back-end engineer/tech lead.
  • Parking platform Secure Parking USA posted an opening for a facility manager in Raleigh.

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 afternoon, the site shows 3,143 jobs at 99 companies. The latest Triangle-area openings (excluding remote jobs) come from the following employers:

  • Aledade (Raleigh)
  • ArchiveSocial (Durham, Raleigh)
  • Bank of America (Durham, Raleigh)
  • Blue Cross NC (Durham)
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (Raleigh)
  • Citrix (Raleigh)
  • Coastal Credit Union (Raleigh)
  • Fidelity Investments (Cary, Durham)
  • LearnPlatform (Raleigh)
  • Me Fine Foundation (Durham)
  • Medicago (Durham)
  • MedPharm (Durham)
  • North Carolina Central University (Durham)
  • Pendo (Raleigh)
  • Secure Parking USA (Raleigh)
  • Self-Help Credit Union (Durham)
  • Truist (Cary, Raleigh)

Work in the Triangle

Work in the Triangle, a Wake County Economic Development program, regularly shares new openings through its Twitter feed, @WorkTriangleNC. The program recently launched a job board on its website, with 11,185 active openings as of Sunday afternoon. Of those, 9,041 are technology jobs, 1,246 are advanced manufacturing positions, 318 are in cleantech and 607 are in life sciences.

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 April 19):

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

Openings at Top Triangle Tech Firms

Job openings abound at the Triangle’s leading technology employers. Here’s how many are available as of Sunday afternoon:

  • Lenovo: 305 jobs in Morrisville (Some news: The company recently announced plans to hire 12,000 R&D professionals over three years)
  • SAS: 154 openings in Cary
  • Red Hat: 44 openings in Raleigh; 63 remote openings in North Carolina
  • Pendo: 34 openings in Raleigh
  • IBM: 31 jobs in RTP, according to the website; 170 jobs in Durham, per NCWorks

Job Openings Submitted by Local Companies

Below is a list of employer-submitted job openings. If you’d like to submit your job openings for this segment, reach out to us here.

Communications software firm Bandwidth currently has 83 open positions at its Raleigh headquarters. Openings span software development, sales, IT, revenue operations, business analytics, finance, legal, marketing, network engineering, operations and more. See the full list of openings here.

Rho, a contract research organization in Research Triangle Park, is hiring for several positions, with some offering $10,000 sign-on bonuses:

Chapel Hill-based edtech company Terra Dotta plans to boost its headcount by 25% in 2022. Its current job openings include:

Upcoming Job Fairs/Career Events

Here’s our latest roundup of upcoming job fairs and other resources to help people looking for employment:

Hospitality Hiring Hour (Recurring Event): Every Tuesday, 4-5 p.m. @Washington Duke Inn

Durham’s Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, JB Duke Hotel and The Lodge at Duke Medical Center are on the hunt for top talent in the hospitality industry. Job seekers can attend this weekly event series every Tuesday through May 31 to meet with managers/staff to ask questions and learn about the available job opportunities.

UNC Hospitals RN Care Manager & Utilization Manager Virtual Hiring Event: April 25, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. (online)

RN care managers and RN utilization managers are invited to apply for an opportunity to interview with UNC Health during this virtual hiring event. Positions are available at UNC Medical Center’s Chapel Hill and Hillsborough campuses and qualify for an extensive benefits package. Read more and submit an application here.

2022 NC State Alumni Career Fair: May 10, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. @Reynolds Coliseum

The Alumni Career Fair is a recruiting event for recent and experienced alumni at NC State and surrounding institutions. More than 80 employers have signed up to attend as of April 24.

Other Resources / Student Support

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:

For Johnston County job seekers: The newly launched JoCo Careers website helps job seekers find companies hiring in Johnston County. (More TechWire coverage here.)

Twitter Accounts to Follow

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