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 461 U.S. job descriptions from 158 employers for Product Management roles. The most requested skills were Project management (40%), Roadmapping (39%) 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
Project management40%
Roadmapping39%
Agile20%
Jira11%
Prototyping9%
Business tools
Excel13%
PowerPoint9%
SAP4%
CRM systems3%
Finance & legal
Stakeholder management10%
Regulatory compliance7%
AI & machine learning
Generative AI8%
LLMs5%
Machine learning5%
Languages
SQL6%
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS5%
Azure4%
Google Cloud3%
Operations
ERP systems5%
Six Sigma3%
Data
Power BI3%
Tableau3%
Hardware
CAD3%
Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since October 8, 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.
