Gregg Flecke
Senior data scientists in the U.S. earn $165,000 to $235,000 base in 2026, with $185,000 to $215,000 the realistic mid-band for a fully-loaded senior at a 200- to 2,000-person company. Total comp at strong tech employers crosses $300,000 once equity and bonus stack on, and the LLM and causal-inference specialists clear that. The base is … Read more
Writing the posting is one piece of a bigger search. For the full 2026 playbook, the comp math, the four-stage interview loop, and where the best candidates are hiding, read how to hire an AI product manager. AI Product Manager Job Description Template 2026 An AI product manager job description should name the exact model-powered … Read more
Opening a technical PM req this quarter? The companion to this guide is our 2026 hiring walkthrough: how to hire a technical product manager, which covers the interview loop and the scorecard. For the posting itself, our technical product manager job description template is the copy-ready version. This page is about the number. Technical Product … Read more
A product manager owns what gets built and why; a project manager owns how it ships and when. Hire a product manager when the open question is which roadmap to bet on. Hire a project manager when the roadmap already exists and delivery is the thing at risk. A SaaS founder called me in March … Read more
Hiring a data product manager in 2026 means deciding whether the role owns an internal data platform or a customer-facing data product, setting base pay of $140K to $180K mid and $180K to $240K senior, and testing prioritization over SQL. That one decision, made on the org chart before a single resume lands, is the … Read more
By Gregg Flecke Hiring a business analyst in 2026 means picking one of four profiles: Systems, Process, Agile, or Data/Reporting BA. Price the band at $85K to $140K base for mid-to-senior, then grade the candidate’s actual requirements artifact instead of the resume. The fastest way to extend a BA search past sixty days is to … Read more
By Gregg Flecke Hiring an LLM engineer in 2026 means scoping the system you actually need built (assistant integration, retrieval, fine-tune, eval and safety, or agent platform). Budget $155K to $225K mid-level and $245K to $355K senior, then run a five-step loop that grades retrieval reasoning, eval discipline, and a production incident reconstruction. Clean searches … Read more
By Gregg Flecke The data analyst interview in 2026 should grade three things and three things only: stakeholder translation, business framing under ambiguity, and judgment about which question is worth answering. SQL syntax, dashboard mechanics, and tool trivia all belong in a 20-minute screen or a take-home, not in the live loop. A four-round loop … Read more
By Gregg Flecke Hiring a generative AI engineer in 2026 means scoping which of five working profiles you actually need (LLM application engineer, RAG/retrieval engineer, fine-tuning specialist, eval and safety engineer, or production GenAI/MLOps). Budget $145K to $215K mid-level and $230K to $340K senior, then run a four-round loop that grades RAG architecture judgment, eval … Read more
By Gregg Flecke A 2026 data analyst hire breaks cleanly into one of four working profiles (BI, marketing or product, analytics engineer, or finance and FP&A). Base comp runs $72K to $135K depending on profile and metro, and clean searches closing in 21 to 35 days from intake to accepted offer. The SQL trivia round … Read more
