RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Good news for people seeking work: The Triangle’s job market is still heading upward despite the COVID-19 Delta variant, according to WRAL TechWire’s weekly Jobs Report.

Triangle metros showed significant gains on national job boards last week:

  • Glassdoor has almost 1,500 more openings in the RTP area from a week ago.
  • Adzuna shows over 3,000 jobs added in Wake County, Raleigh and Durham County, compared to this time last week.
  • Dice.com, which tracks tech jobs, shows 5,330 new jobs added in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

Indeed, LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter also posted bigger numbers.

And more jobs are on the way.

The Triangle is reaping the benefits of a banner year in economic development as thousands of new jobs flood into the region. Wake County Economic Development recently reported that new economic development projects have generated over 9,000 jobs and $3.4 billion in investments since last October. And 48 additional projects under consideration could bring 10,000 more jobs to the region.

Even so, the ongoing pandemic continues to pose new challenges for local employers. Large firms such as SAS and Merck now require workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine or face termination. This stance appears to be a rarity in the Triangle, though, at least for now.

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WRAL TechWire is tracking the Triangle’s job trends as the region continues its economic recovery. Our 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 for what positions. We’ve also included upcoming job fairs, student-centric resources and a list of Twitter accounts that track local job openings.

Let’s highlight what’s new on the job boards since last week’s Jobs Report:

National Job Search Sites

Here’s an overview of the number of local jobs posted on national job boards compared to last week, as of Sunday afternoon.

  • Adzuna:
    • ⇑ Wake County: 38,712 jobs (+1,547 from a week ago)
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 21,709 (+1,916)
    • ⇑ Durham County: 10,081 (+139)
  • Dice.com (using the 5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 16,900 (+1,768)
    • ⇑ Durham: 16,679 (+1,769)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 16,439 (+1,793)
  • Glassdoor: ⇑ 41,738 jobs in the Research Triangle Park area (+1,454)
  • Indeed (5-mile radius filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 15,869 (+3)
    • ⇑ Durham: 9,200 (+1,149)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 4,221 (+10)
  • InHerSight: Pages upon pages of jobs across the RTP area
  • LinkedIn (using the “exact location” filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 27,054 (+212)
    • ⇑ Durham: 12,751 (+379)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 2,702 (+43)
  • Manpower (20-mile radius):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 23 (+3)
    • ⇑ Durham: 18 (+2)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 16 (+2)
  • Remote Tech Jobs: Several remote jobs offered by Triangle-area employers
  • ZipRecruiter (5-mile filter):
    • ⇑ Raleigh: 34,843 (+292)
    • ⇓ Durham: 13,230 (-95)
    • ⇑ Chapel Hill: 3,633 (+139)

Startup Job Search Sites

Aside from the boards above, job seekers can also find local startup jobs at SimplyHired (220 startup jobs near Research Triangle Park), LinkedIn (1,261 results in and around Raleigh), Indeed (287 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 afternoon, AMA Triangle’s job board shows 66 marketing jobs in Raleigh, 25 in Durham and 13 in Chapel Hill (with the 25-mile radius filter).

No new jobs were posted last week, so here’s a recap of what’s been added over the last few weeks:

  • Honeywell seeks a paid media marketing specialist in Raleigh.
  • Durham-based nonprofit FHI 360 is hiring an associate director of knowledge management and strategic communications.
  • Medtech firm Hillrom posted a few listings for its Cary office: Global marketing manager (remote option) and senior software engineer focused on video communications.
  • The Diversity Movement is hiring a marketing director in Raleigh.
  • Kymera International, a specialty materials provider, is hiring a marketing communication manager in Durham.
  • North Carolina State University is looking to add a marketing writer to its University Communications and Marketing office.

American Underground

Durham-based startup hub American Underground regularly posts job openings on its job board. Job seekers can filter their search by job function, location, company, industry and job title. As of Sunday afternoon, the site shows 218 jobs at 36 companies.

Several jobs were posted in the last seven days:

  • Durham-based payments software provider Spreedly is hiring a director of support engineering, a senior sales operations analyst and multiple enterprise account executives.
  • Insurtech startup Policygenius, which continues to expand hiring at its Durham headquarters, is looking to hire staff software engineers, a GRC analyst and a data analyst.
  • EnMass Energy, a supply chain procurement and operations platform, is hiring an energy, environment and industry intern in Durham.
  • Insurtech startup Noyo added a few remote positions, including business operations leader, customer advocacy operations manager and product operations leader.
  • Sustainability nonprofit Don’t Waste Durham is looking to hire an operations coordinator for its GreenToGo program.
  • Durham’s ProcessMaker, a provider of workflow automation software, added several listings to AU’s site, including enterprise customer success manager, presales engineer, account executive, scrum master and human resources director.
  • Wild Earth, a pet food company, is hiring a field marketing manager in Raleigh (remote option).

Bio Jobs Hub

Earlier this 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 615 openings at 29 companies as of Sunday afternoon.

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

  • Forward Cities is hiring a managing director and a marketing and communications coordinator in Durham.
  • Burt’s Bees posted a position for a quality micro lab associate in Morrisville.
  • Medicago seeks a senior procurement associate and a senior supervisor of downstream purification in Durham.
  • North Carolina Central University in Durham posted several positions, including associate music professor, public communications specialist, university insurance and risk management specialist, administrative support specialist, human resources specialists, public safety telecommunicator, post-doctoral fellows, academic advisor, assistant director of bands, administrative support supervisor, assistant professors, administrative support associate and facility maintenance technician.
  • Blue Cross NC is hiring for several positions in Durham, including senior business process auditor, senior accountant, insights analyst, business application expert, senior CX insights analyst, principal data analytics engineer and senior infrastructure design engineer.
  • Truist added postings across its Triangle-area locations. Open positions include strategic benefit analyst, relationship bankers, universal banker, senior relationship banker, financial services specialists, lead infrastructure engineer, cyber and privacy counsel, platform engineer and tellers/senior tellers.
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (WRAL TechWire’s parent company) is hiring a maintenance building services assistant in Raleigh.
  • William Peace University in Raleigh seeks an assistant/associate professor of business administration.
  • Durham Technical Community College added a listing for insurance sales agents.
  • Coastal Credit Union seeks a web developer and a consumer lending temp. 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.

Over the last week (since Sept. 13), over a dozen new jobs were added to NCBiotech’s board, including:

  • Research technicians, lab research analyst, senior GMP program director, senior research associate and GMP project manager at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in Durham
  • Pharma giant Merck & Co. added several positions at its Triangle locations, including senior analytics and data engineering specialist, technical operations intern, quality assurance specialist, associate operations technician, associate director of automation, senior principal medical writer, director of oncology medical writing, medical writing intern, senior technician, associate director of quality and senior operations specialist.
  • Senior medical writer and clinical project coordinator at TFF Pharmaceuticals (remote)
  • NCBiotech’s Veterans Outreach Program added listings for a warehouse operations intern and a bioprocess technician intern at Pfizer in Sanford.
  • Chemist or biochemist intern and entry-level chemist or biochemist at MedKoo Biosciences in Morrisville
  • Head of regulatory affairs, chief scientific officer and quality systems engineer at Elevation Oncology in Raleigh (remote options)
  • Instructor/program director of biopharmaceutical technology at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh
  • Biostatisticians, executive director, senior biostatistician, SQL developer at the Institute for Medical Research in Durham
  • Packaging technician and quality associate at Grifols in Clayton
  • Quality assurance manager at Mycovia Pharmaceuticals in Durham
  • Metabolic engineering scientist and research associates in microbial engineering and analytical chemistry at DMC Biotechnologies in Durham
  • Senior scientist/associate director of AAV production at BridgeBio Gene Therapy in Raleigh
  • Post-doc/research associate/research scientist at Cellective BioTherapy in Durham

NC TECH

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

A few new jobs were added to the site last week:

  • Business process services firm Conduent is hiring a senior product manager in Morrisville.
  • IBM is adding an agile project manager to its RTP office.
  • IT firm System Soft Technologies added nationwide listings for a UX designer, a UX research manager, a UX researcher and a lead UI developer.

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.

The NCWorks website contains a COVID-19 job board that lists companies hiring to fill immediate technical and healthcare needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

NCWorks reports thousands of available positions. More than 2,800 people added or updated their resumes at the site in the past week, as of Sunday afternoon.

Here are the top 10 Wake County-based employers with the most job openings:

  • Wake County Public School System: 2,691 jobs
  • WakeMed Health and Hospitals: 1,881
  • Deloitte: 1,339
  • NC State University: 1,129
  • UNC Health Care System: 1,063
  • EY: 623
  • Facebook: 567
  • McDonald’s Corporation: 521
  • UNC Rockingham Health Care: 495
  • IBM: 494

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

  • Duke University: 2,849
  • IBM: 1,562
  • Duke Careers: 703
  • IQVIA: 703
  • Durham Public Schools: 528
  • Fidelity Investments: 488
  • Laboratory Corporation of America: 450
  • Cisco Systems: 350
  • Duke University and Duke University Health System: 337
  • KBI Biopharma: 192

And here are the top employers in Orange County:

  • UNC Health Care System: 1,156
  • UNC-Chapel Hill: 685
  • UNC Rockingham Health Care: 519
  • UNC Health: 468
  • Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools: 351
  • ARAMARK Corporation: 136
  • Orange County Schools: 131
  • Piedmont Health Services: 78
  • Harris Teeter: 76
  • Hyatt Hotels Corporation: 65

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 138 positions at 28 companies, as of Sunday afternoon.

Here’s what’s new on the site over the last seven days:

  • Raleigh startup Pendo added listings for an account receivable specialist, a revenue accountant, a commercial account manager, a brand designer, a sales enablement director, an associate release engineer, an executive assistant and a quantitative user researcher.
  • MedPharm, a product design and development firm, is hiring a formulation specialist in Durham.
  • Local app development firm Lithios seeks a UI/UX designer in Raleigh (or remote).

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 (NEW)

Leadership Triangle, Raleigh Founded and American Underground recently 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.)

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As of Sunday afternoon, the site shows 2,286 listings from 86 companies, including:

  • Wild Earth (Raleigh)
  • Burt’s Bees (Morrisville)
  • ProcessMaker (Durham)
  • Truist (multiple locations)
  • Pendo (Raleigh)
  • Medicago (Durham)
  • MedPharm (Durham)
  • Citrix (remote and Raleigh)
  • William Peace University (Raleigh)
  • Blue Cross NC (Durham)
  • NC Central University (Durham)
  • Policygenius (Durham)
  • Coastal Credit Union (Raleigh)
  • Durham Technical Community College (Durham)
  • Spreedly (Durham)
  • EnMass Energy (Durham)
  • Capitol Broadcasting Company (Raleigh)
  • Forward Cities (Durham)

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.

Posts from last Tuesday (Sept. 14) included openings from:

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

New Jobs at Mycovia Pharmaceuticals

Last week, RTP-based Mycovia Pharmaceuticals told TechWire that it’s hiring for several positions in project management, market access, insights and analytics, marketing and quality assurance. The late-stage biopharma company is developing drugs to meet women’s health needs.

A Mycovia spokesperson says it plans to add around nine employees through the fourth quarter of 2021. Its current headcount is 21.

Open positions include:

  • Commercial project manager
  • Director of trade and patient support
  • Senior director of pricing and contract analytics
  • VP of value access and trade
  • Senior director of insights and analytics
  • Senior product manager
  • Senior director of marketing
  • Quality assurance manager

Read more and apply here.

New Jobs at Terra Dotta

Chapel Hill-based edtech company Terra Dotta told TechWire in late-August that it’s continuing to hire in the greater RTP area and anticipates another 10 new hires across sales, product development and marketing before the end of the year. The firm already has about 35 employees in the Triangle area.

Its latest openings are for a product marketing manager and a professional services manager. Read more and apply here.

The boost in hiring comes as the company just made the Inc. 5000 list and is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Terra Dotta CEO Anthony Rotoli says, “This level of growth isn’t as common in a more mature company, but we are actively hiring to continue a high growth trajectory and support the international program and global engagement priorities of higher education, both in North Carolina and nationwide.”

Upcoming Job Fairs and Career Events

Wake Tech IT Division Adjunct & Part-Time Instructor Hiring Event: Sept. 21, 7-7:45 p.m. (online)

Wake Technical Community College is looking to add adjunct/part-time instructors across its IT program areas, especially cybersecurity, networking, programming, data science, desktop support and the Microsoft Office Suite. This virtual event will cover information about the school, its programs, job opportunities and the hiring process.

Virtual Tech Job Expo 101: How Does It Work?: Sept. 29, 9:30-10:15 a.m. (online)

This webinar will lead job seekers and employers through a tour of Premier Virtual, the platform NC TECH uses to host its online career events, including its upcoming Virtual Tech Job Expo on Oct. 20.

NC State Ag & Sciences Virtual Career Expo: Sept. 29, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (online)

Hosted by NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College of Sciences, this virtual career fair will gather over 1,000 students from 82 undergraduate and graduate programs to meet with employers.

CRO Career Conversations: Oct 13. 8, 5:30-7 p.m. (online)

In this virtual event, attendees will hear from contract research organization (CRO) industry professionals as they discuss their career paths and responsibilities.

NC TECH Virtual Job Expo: Oct. 20, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (online)

The North Carolina Technology Association’s virtual job fair will connect employers to job seekers looking for work in a tech role or to support a tech company. The event is free for candidates and job seekers.

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.

Student Job Fairs and Career Events

Duke University:
NC State University:
Multiple universities:

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: