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Technologies
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Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

How Dept hires

Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
46 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
80%
Reposted roles
3%

Dept scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 39 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 80% have gone stale and 3% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 46 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

Dept is a Dutch digital agency founded in 2015 through the combination of several Amsterdam agencies, and it has grown rapidly by acquiring creative, technology and marketing firms across Europe and North America. It works at the intersection of creative campaign work, engineering and data, delivering brand campaigns, digital products, commerce platforms and performance marketing for consumer and technology clients. Headquartered in Amsterdam and owned by the private equity firm Carlyle, it employs several thousand people and positions itself against both traditional advertising networks and technology consultancies.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Dept over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
153
Postings analysed
242
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL11%
Python11%
JavaScript7%
Java3%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js3%
Angular2%
Scikit-learn1%
Axum1%
Databases
Snowflake4%
Google BigQuery4%
PostgreSQL3%
BigQuery2%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI80%
Figma14%
AWS11%
GCP9%
AI & ML
LLM3%
Claude2%
Midjourney2%
Gemini2%
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Full Dept tech stack 153 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$133k
Typical range
$60k – $210k
Open positions
28
26 Jobs
Junior 15.4%
Middle 3.8%
Senior 30.8%
Staff 3.8%
Principal 19.2%
Architect 26.9%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 4 $65k $60k – $70k
Middle 1 $85k $85k
Senior 8 $96k $64k – $160k
Staff 1 $120k $120k
Principal 5 $148k $120k – $165k
Architect 7 $170k $150k – $210k
Highest paying role Technology Director, Martech $210k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Dept By role, level and city, against the market · 28 jobs with pay

Products

Technology Consulting
Advisory and implementation around marketing and commerce platform choices. It positions the agency earlier in the decision, before a client has already committed to a stack someone else will implement.
deptagency.com
Data and Intelligence
Customer data platforms, measurement and analytics supporting both campaign and product work. Attribution has become harder as tracking restrictions tightened, which has made this capability more valuable rather than less.
deptagency.com
Performance Marketing
Paid media, search and conversion optimisation measured against commercial outcomes. It generates recurring monthly revenue, which is far steadier than the project cycles that fund creative work and is why most digital agencies now carry it.
deptagency.com
Digital Product Engineering
Design and build of applications, platforms and commerce experiences. This is the capability traditional advertising networks lack and the reason clients bring the agency into projects that would otherwise go to a systems integrator.
deptagency.com
Creative Campaigns
Brand strategy, campaign concept and production for consumer and technology clients. Keeping creative work alongside engineering in the same firm is the pitch, since most campaigns now depend on something being built rather than only filmed.
deptagency.com

Growth

Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
134
53 opened / 72 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
50 days
faster than 27% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
33%
Design
12% ▲
Management
8%
Sales
7%
Backend
5% ▼
Early Careers
5%
Actively hiring for Marketing (+22 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Veo to stack Oct 2026
Added Sora to stack Oct 2026
Added Kling to stack Oct 2026
Added ComfyUI to stack Oct 2026
New location: Sydney Oct 2026
New location: Canada Oct 2026
New location: Netherlands Sep 2026
New location: Germany Sep 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added React Native to stack Sep 2026
Added Visualforce to stack Sep 2026
Added SOAP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
24
Hiring now
18
Countries
17
Busiest office
Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Netherlands
HQ
CMNL
28 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Analytics, Management
seen since Sep 2025 job postings
Budapest Hungary
Engineering / R&D
DHUN
17 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 35% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML, Design
seen since Feb 2026 careers board, company site, job postings
Toronto Canada
Engineering / R&D
PCCA
16 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 13% remote 200-500 est. staff $78k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Early Careers, Data Science
seen since Oct 2024 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Sales office
xDEPT® Commerce UK
13 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 8% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Marketing, AI/ML, Management
seen since Oct 2024 careers board, job postings
Buenos Aires Argentina
Engineering / R&D
DMUS
8 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 25% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Design, Backend
seen since Jun 2025 job postings
Berlin Germany
Sales office
xBYTE/DEPT® Berlin
8 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Communications, Design
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Hamburg Germany
Corporate office
xDesign & Technology DE
6 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Management, Leadership, Product
seen since Oct 2025 careers board, job postings
Vancouver Canada
Regional office
PCCA
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 25% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Management, Marketing
seen since Sep 2025 job postings
Zagreb Croatia
Engineering / R&D
DTNL
3 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Design, Mobile
seen since Jun 2025 company site, job postings
Zurich Switzerland
Engineering / R&D
xDesign & Technology CH
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Leadership, Design, Management
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, company site, job postings
Rotterdam Netherlands
Engineering / R&D
CMNL
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Management, Marketing
seen since May 2024 job postings
Manchester United Kingdom
MTUK
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Early Careers
seen since Oct 2024 job postings
Mumbai India
Engineering / R&D
DTIN
2 open roles 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Enterprise Apps
seen since Feb 2024 careers board, job postings
Skopje North Macedonia
Regional office
TCMK
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Design
seen since Dec 2025 company site, job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
PCUS
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Marketing
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
New York United States
Sales office
DUS
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $150k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Manchester United States
DHR
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Data Science
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Montevideo Uruguay
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for QA
seen since Jun 2025
Sydney Australia
Regional office
PCAU
4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Sep 2026 careers board
Dublin Ireland
Regional office
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Apr 2026 company site
Copenhagen Denmark
Regional office
xDesign & Technology DK
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since May 2026 careers board, company site
Paris France
Regional office
PCFR
careers board
Brussels Belgium
Regional office
EXBE
careers board
Pune India
Regional office
HXIN
careers board
Earlier presence
San Jose, United States 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026

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