Product Manager job title trend since Apr 2011
Product · Established · in 5.5% of HN hiring posts · 534 open roles at 85 companies · median $232k · first seen Apr 2011
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago12 of 85 companies (top 12 shown)
Open roles
8 of 534; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Lead, Nursing Product | NYC Office | $230k to $269k | |
| Staff Product Manager, US Public Sector | Remote - California; Remote - Virginia; Remote - Washington D.C. | $182k to $250k | |
| Senior Product Manager - Feature Flagging | New York, New York, USA | $192k to $240k | |
| Product Manager | Remote - US: Select locations | $173k to $234k | |
| Product Manager, Technology Vertical | San Francisco | $266k to $385k | |
| Principal Product Manager, Subscriptions and Growth | San Mateo, CA, United States | $331k to $383k | |
| Product Manager ,Trust and Safety | Chicago, IL, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | $183k to $205k | |
| Product Manager, Plaid Account [Consumer] | New York City Office | $190k to $263k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
6,037 posts since Apr 2011 · -19% in 6 monthsSeptember 2026 18 of 256 postings, 7.0%
Related titles
About this title
Decides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.
Also counted: PM, product owner
First sighting
...Francisco, CA - Rails developer (also Android developer, Product Manager) MedHelp is the largest online health community, with 12 million uniques...
Median posted salary $232k from 342 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.