Marketing engineer is the hot new job title. Only 173 people have started it | Pirate Street Journal

The Pirate Street Journal · Oct 8, 2026 · 44m

HERE'S WHAT WE COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

1. Marketing Engineer is a hot new title. The scoreboard decides if it matters.

Profound raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation and built a job board, a hackathon, and a podcast around the title. Listings jumped 29% last year. Only 173 people actually started the job. Christopher saw the same move in the early 90s, when "sales engineer" arrived with sales automation. He splits it in two. A market engineer designs new categories. A marketing engineer runs tech inside an old one, and can get so smart it's stupid. Eddie's bar: marketing should be…