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 104 U.S. job descriptions from 27 employers for Product Management roles. The most requested skills were Roadmapping (53%), Project management (20%) and Agile (17%).
402open U.S. roles tracked
5 yearstypical experience asked for
58%remote, where a posting states it
$242,250median advertised pay, from 303 roles that state it
Product & design
Roadmapping53%
Project management20%
Agile17%
Prototyping15%
Jira12%
AI & machine learning
Generative AI16%
LLMs12%
Machine learning8%
Finance & legal
Stakeholder management12%
Regulatory compliance7%
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS11%
Azure9%
Google Cloud6%
Distributed systems6%
Languages
SQL10%
Python7%
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.
