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Early signals about your competitors, every week

Who they hire, where they expand, which tools they adopt, what they win. Signals that show strategy before it hits the news, in one short email per competitor, for small SaaS teams and founders who do not have an analyst to watch the market for them.

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What each digest tells you

Hiring by function and countryNew roles this week against their usual weekly pace (4-week baseline): a sales push in Spain, a pause in data science.
New countriesThe first job ads in a country they never hired in: market entry, months before the press release.
Tools they adoptTools named in their job ads that were not there before, or that disappeared: what they build on next.
Posted payPay ranges of new ads against their open ads, by function: where they compete harder for talent.
ReviewsRating moves and review bursts on the app stores where we track them.
Public contracts wonEU and UK contract awards (TED, Find a Tender) with buyer, value and the notice link.
Recruiting systemA switch of ATS: usually a recruiting reset or a scale-up.

Every item carries a one-line why it matters and dated links to the public evidence: the job ad, the contract notice, the store listing. A quiet week says so in one line. Company-level data only: no names, no emails, no people.

Two real digests

Built from our data for the week to 2026-10-23, exactly as the email reads. Items marked provisional rest on a baseline younger than 4 weeks (our daily job history started on 21 October 2026).

Arcadium Data · Competitor Watch

Zendesk zendesk.com

Week of 17 Oct – 23 Oct 2026

Zendesk: Sales: 10 new roles (usually 2.5 a week) + 5 more changes.

142
open ads
27
new roles this week
14.3
usual per week
4
closed

Hiring

Sales: 10 new roles (usually 2.5 a week) provisional

45 Sales ads open now; ads by country PT 4, US 4, DE 1.

Why it matters: A sales hiring push usually means more outbound and more competitive deals within one or two quarters.

Marketing: 3 new roles (usually 1 a week) provisional

10 Marketing ads open now; ads by country US 3.

Why it matters: Marketing hiring comes before campaigns and new messaging: watch their ads, content and events. Most of the new ads are in the United States.

Solutions & Pre-sales: 3 new roles (usually 1 a week) provisional

16 Solutions & Pre-sales ads open now; ads by country ES 1, MX 1, PL 1.

Why it matters: More pre-sales and solutions staff usually means larger, more technical deals: expect them in more enterprise evaluations.

Countries

Portugal: 6 new ads (usually 0.8 a week) provisional

13 ads open in Portugal; new ads by function: Sales 4, Partnerships 2.

Why it matters: A jump in openings in Portugal usually means a push in that market: expect more local sales, partners and events there.

Mexico: 5 new ads (usually 0.8 a week) provisional

11 ads open in Mexico; new ads by function: Sales 1, Customer Success & Support 1, Solutions & Pre-sales 1.

Why it matters: A jump in openings in Mexico usually means a push in that market: expect more local sales, partners and events there.

India: 3 new ads (usually 0.8 a week) provisional

15 ads open in India; new ads by function: Engineering 2, IT 1.

Why it matters: A jump in openings in India usually means a push in that market: expect more local sales, partners and events there.

New roles by function

NewUsual/wkClosedOpen
Sales102.5145
Solutions & Pre-sales31016
Marketing31010
Data & AI22.5122
Engineering21.3013
Partnerships21.309
Customer Success & Support2106
Other12.3012

New ads by country

NewUsual/wkOpen
United States74.841
Portugal60.813
Mexico50.811
India30.815
Ireland216
Poland117
Germany10.56
Spain10.34

Context

Note: Baselines are provisional until 2026-11-24: our job history starts on 2026-10-21, so ads that closed before then are missing from the 4-week baseline.

Note: Closed ads are counted from 2026-10-21.

Arcadium Data: early signals about your competitors, every week. Company-level data from public job ads, public tender notices and public review listings. No personal data.

Arcadium Data · Competitor Watch

Datadog datadoghq.com

Week of 17 Oct – 23 Oct 2026

Datadog: Sales: 9 new roles (usually 3.8 a week) + 2 more changes.

440
open ads
19
new roles this week
24
usual per week
0
closed

Hiring

Sales: 9 new roles (usually 3.8 a week) provisional

153 Sales ads open now; ads by country US 6, BR 1, NL 1.

Why it matters: A sales hiring push usually means more outbound and more competitive deals within one or two quarters. Most of the new ads are in the United States.

Solutions & Pre-sales: no new roles (usually 2 a week) provisional

47 Solutions & Pre-sales ads still open.

Why it matters: No new Solutions & Pre-sales ads after a steady pace: a pause often means a filled plan, a budget cut or a reorganisation in that team.

Posted pay

Sales: posted pay of new ads +25% vs their open Sales ads

Median midpoint 150,500 vs 120,000 USD a year (5 new ads with pay, 61 older open ads).

Why it matters: Higher posted pay for new Sales ads: they are competing harder for this talent, likely a priority area.

New roles by function

NewUsual/wkClosedOpen
Sales93.80153
Engineering32042
Customer Success & Support21.3032
Marketing12.3022
People13.3019
Finance12013
Other11.5012
Legal10.305

New ads by country

NewUsual/wkOpen
United States1316.5227
Singapore21.518
France1138
Netherlands1118
Brazil10.314
Australia10.811
Japan00.831
Ireland00.815

Context

  • Recruiting system: greenhouse
  • Tools most named in their ads: Datadog, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Golang, Python, Java
  • Full company profile

Note: Baselines are provisional until 2026-11-24: our job history starts on 2026-10-21, so ads that closed before then are missing from the 4-week baseline.

Note: Closed ads are counted from 2026-10-21.

Arcadium Data: early signals about your competitors, every week. Company-level data from public job ads, public tender notices and public review listings. No personal data.

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Questions

Where does the data come from?

Employer career sites (the public job ads on their own ATS), official tender portals (EU TED and UK Find a Tender) and public app-store review listings. We read them daily and compare each week with the four weeks before.

Which companies can I watch?

Any company website domain. Hiring signals need a job board we track (tens of thousands of employers, most software companies); when we find none, the digest says so and the other sections still run.

Is there personal data in the digest?

No. Everything is at company level: counts, countries, functions, tools, contract awards with organisation names. Job ads are linked, never the people behind them.

How do I stop it?

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