What Is a GTM Engineer in 2026? — 8 archetypes, one role family | Upside
Subtypes & shapes · May 2026What is a GTM Engineer?<br>Eight flavors, one role family.<br>Live database of 790 job listings (790 open), 899 named practitioners, and 0 hiring companies — sorted into eight archetypes that show how the role is taking shape across the market.
Next event · Jun 10, 2026Show & Tell: AI for GTM with Cognition and Samsara — In-person SF edition — with Cognition, Samsara, UpsideDetails + register →AIAI fluencyGTMGTM knowledge / experienceDATAData analyticsEXPExperimentationCODECoding experience<br>01▸<br>Outbound GTME<br>Lives in outbound, RevOps, or sales-led growth. Stack: Clay, Salesforce, Gong, 6sense, Apollo, Outreach. Owns pipeline, meetings, speed-to-lead.
Measured on·Pipeline ·Meetings·Speed-to-lead<br>223 open · 211 practitioners · 28.2% of hiring
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02▸<br>Executive / CoE Lead<br>Senior commercial systems leader. Owns the GTM AI Center of Excellence, sets strategy, governance, and the agent platform standards.
Measured on·Strategy ·Governance·CoE adoption<br>138 open · 201 practitioners · 17.5% of hiring
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03▸<br>Marketing Engineer<br>Sits inside marketing. Builds agents and workflows for demand gen, content, lifecycle, AEO, campaign personalization, and brand visibility in LLMs.
Measured on·Lifecycle ·AEO·Demand·Brand-in-LLMs<br>96 open · 44 practitioners · 12.2% of hiring
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04▸<br>Revenue Architect<br>Existing RevOps absorbing GTME traits: agents, APIs, enrichment, AI-assisted workflows. Still owns process, governance, attribution, dashboards.
Measured on·Process ·Attribution·Forecast accuracy<br>71 open · 105 practitioners · 9.0% of hiring
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05▸<br>Founding GTME<br>First commercial hire at an AI-native startup. Builds the entire GTM motion from scratch — outbound, lifecycle, data, first revenue agents.
Measured on·$0 → $1M ARR ·First stack·Founder-adjacent<br>69 open · 29 practitioners · 8.7% of hiring
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06▸<br>Fractional / Consulting<br>Embedded fractional operator or boutique consultancy. Drops into GTM teams, builds the substrate — agents, enrichment, outbound — then hands off.
Measured on·Embed ·Build·Hand-off durability<br>77 open · 172 practitioners · 9.7% of hiring
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07▸<br>Growth Engineer<br>Purest "software engineer inside GTM". Ships production code near PLG, activation, self-serve, experimentation, and conversion infrastructure.
Measured on·Activation ·Experiments·Free → Paid<br>59 open · 105 practitioners · 7.5% of hiring
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08▸<br>AI Enablement Engineer<br>Infrastructure-native. Owns the agent platform, guardrails, permissions, MCP integrations, context engineering, and security boundaries.
Measured on·Agents ·Guardrails·MCP·Adoption<br>57 open · 32 practitioners · 7.2% of hiring
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The titles vary, the shapes vary, but the substrate is the same. Eight flavors of one role family — all rebuilding revenue motion as code.<br>Read the full essay →<br>Sales Engineer Hybrid<br>Customer-facing technical PoCs + outbound automation. SE who builds, not just demos.<br>Open profile →AI Accelerator / Internal FDE<br>Forward-deployed coach + builder embedded with a 10–30 person GTM cohort. Stripe FDA pattern.<br>Open profile →
790Open roles right now<br>790Total job listings tracked<br>899Named practitioners<br>0Hiring companies<br>8Archetypes<br>—Last refresh
Job board →<br>Search and filter every open role across the 10 profiles. Jump straight to the JD.<br>Practitioners →<br>899+ named people already doing the work. Search by company, archetype, or location.<br>Submit a role / profile →<br>Spotted a GTME role we missed, or want your profile listed? Submit it here.<br>How this is built →<br>The data pipeline behind /gtme — Notion as source of truth, sources, and caveats.
About this datasetBased on a Notion-backed dataset of 790 job listings (790 open today) and 899 practitioners across 0 hiring companies, eight archetypes describe how the GTM Engineer is showing up in the market. Each tilts differently across AI fluency, GTM knowledge, data analytics, experimentation, and coding .<br>Roles come from job-board crawls (LinkedIn, Wellfound, YC, Built In, Teamtailor, Remote Rocketship) plus content sources (The Signal, GTMonly, State of GTM Engineering 2026, GTME Pulse, SyncGTM, Skaled). Each is classified into one of the eight archetypes via a deterministic flavor matcher and rated 1–10 across the five axes using keyword-mined heuristics. Practitioners come from public LinkedIn profiles already in role.<br>How this is built → · View Roles DB on Notion →
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