Product managers decide what a team builds and why, working between customers, engineers and the business. Postings tend to stress planning and coordination, with technical fluency valued more in engineering-heavy companies.
We analyzed 610 U.S. job descriptions from 173 employers for Product Management roles. The most requested skills were Roadmapping (41%), Project management (40%) and Agile (20%).
6,689open U.S. roles tracked
5 yearstypical experience asked for
$199,500median advertised pay, from 1,015 roles that state it
Product & design
Roadmapping41%
Project management40%
Agile20%
Jira10%
Prototyping9%
Business tools
Excel12%
PowerPoint9%
SAP4%
CRM systems3%
Finance & legal
Stakeholder management10%
Regulatory compliance7%
AI & machine learning
Generative AI8%
LLMs5%
Machine learning5%
Languages
SQL7%
Python3%
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS6%
Azure4%
Google Cloud3%
Operations
ERP systems5%
Six Sigma3%
Data
Tableau3%
Power BI3%
Snowflake3%
Hardware
CAD3%
Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since September 25, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.
