Media Partner Guide
Starting Monday for Podcast Hosts and Newsletter Writers
Original data, practitioner expertise, and an audience your listeners and readers are already becoming.
500+
Monitored companies feeding the research and signal narrative
2 business days
Expected turnaround after a partner application
Quarterly
Natural cadence for co-branded research distribution
Trust and methodology
Research partnerships are built on original monitoring, explicit attribution, and clear methodology notes. We do not ask you to publish recycled job-board data or sponsor copy disguised as reporting.
Verification path: review source methodology, choose a narrow pilot topic, and compare audience response against standard sponsored content before expanding the partnership.
What Starting Monday is
Starting Monday is an AI-powered job search platform built specifically for VP and C-suite technology executives. It gives them the intelligence infrastructure that senior searches require: monitoring of target companies for pre-search signals, AI-generated prep briefs for every interview, a structured pipeline for tracking relationships and conversations, and a daily briefing that keeps the search moving.
It was built by Rich Rothschild, who spent two years studying why senior technology executive searches fail and what the executives who land well actually do differently. Starting Monday is the system that runs the search correctly.
Why your audience is the right audience
Every senior manager, director, and VP in your audience is at most one transition away from the search that Starting Monday was built for. Many of them are already there. They are the executives who followed the standard job search playbook at the VP level, discovered it does not work the same way, and are trying to figure out what the new rules are.
The content that explains those rules is genuinely useful to your audience and genuinely differentiating for your show or newsletter. The senior executive search is not well covered. Most career content stops before the VP threshold. Your listeners and readers who have crossed it, or are about to, have no good resources.
That gap is the content opportunity. Starting Monday is the operational answer to the strategic question the content raises.
How we work together
Podcast Episode Series
Multi-episode series on senior executive career strategy co-created with Rich Rothschild, founder of Starting Monday. Rich spent two years studying how VP and C-suite technology searches actually work, then built the platform to run them correctly.
Example topics
- +How the job search changes when you reach VP or C-suite
- +What retained search firms actually want from executive candidates
- +Why technology executive candidates fail the first round
- +How to build a target company list before a search starts
- +What senior technology executives are doing differently in the 2026 job market
Audience: Senior managers approaching VP and above, and executives already in active search.
Sponsored Research Distribution
Starting Monday monitors hundreds of company career pages and tracks organizational signals that precede senior technology and C-suite searches. That data becomes original, branded research for your newsletter: quarterly hiring trend reports, sector signal analysis, and job market intelligence your readers cannot get anywhere else.
Example topics
- +Senior technology hiring trends by sector and quarter
- +Which organizational signals predict technology leadership searches
- +Time-to-fill benchmarks for technology executive roles
- +Pre-market signal patterns across 500+ monitored companies
- +Technology executive compensation trends by role and sector
Audience: Technology leaders, HR executives, investors, and career-focused professionals.
Listener or Reader Resource
Starting Monday as a recommended resource for your audience, with a dedicated landing page and promo code. Your listeners and readers who are in transition or preparing for one get access to the platform at a preferred rate. You earn commission on every activation.
Audience: Any audience with senior managers, directors, VPs, or C-suite executives.
The data
Starting Monday continuously monitors hundreds of company career pages across technology-intensive sectors. The platform tracks executive departure signals, leadership team changes, funding events, PE ownership transitions, and career page posting patterns that precede formal senior technology and C-suite searches.
That data is original and current. It is not recycled from LinkedIn or job boards. For newsletters that publish market intelligence, it is the kind of research that readers forward to colleagues and cite in their own work.
Research partnerships are structured as co-branded quarterly reports. Starting Monday provides the analysis. You publish under your brand. Attribution notes the underlying data source.
What this is not
We are not looking for a sponsor read. We are not interested in a 30-second pre-roll. We are looking for hosts and writers who believe the content is genuinely valuable to their audience and want to co-create something that is worth producing.
If the fit is right, the financial arrangement follows naturally. If the content is not worth making, the sponsorship does not fix it.
Let's talk
Apply to the partner program
Fill out the application and select “Media / podcast / newsletter” as the partnership type. We will follow up within 2 business days to discuss the content opportunity and what a partnership looks like.
Apply now →Want to see the platform first? Walk through a live demo.