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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

First sighting

Who is hiring for it

Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago

12 of 85 companies (top 12 shown)

#CompanyOpen roles
1Elastic47
2Stripe33
3Brex24
4Databricks21
5Sierra18
6Anthropic17
7Fivetran16
8MongoDB16
9Okta15
10Datadog14
11Duolingo12
12Decagon10

Open roles

8 of 534; company pages list the rest
Role
Product Lead, Nursing ProductAbridgeNYC Office$230k to $269k
Staff Product Manager, US Public SectorDatabricksRemote - California; Remote - Virginia; Remote - Washington D.C.$182k to $250k
Senior Product Manager - Feature FlaggingDatadogNew York, New York, USA$192k to $240k
Product ManagerDropboxRemote - US: Select locations$173k to $234k
Product Manager, Technology VerticalOpenAISan Francisco$266k to $385k
Principal Product Manager, Subscriptions and GrowthRobloxSan Mateo, CA, United States$331k to $383k
Product Manager ,Trust and SafetyChimeChicago, IL, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA$183k to $205k
Product Manager, Plaid Account [Consumer]PlaidNew York City Office$190k to $263k

Share of Hacker News hiring posts

6,037 posts since Apr 2011 · -19% in 6 months
September 2026 18 of 256 postings, 7.0%
3-month averageEach monthFirst sighting
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...
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2011) . Took off in April 2012, when its 12-month share first reached a quarter of its best.

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.

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