Writing a program manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,813 live program managerpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,813
Employers: 726
Remote: 12%
Typical pay: $98k–214k
Verified live (7d): 1,623

What they ask for

Counted across 1,043 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

PMP47%
Microsoft Excel31%
Microsoft PowerPoint19%
Atlassian JIRA17%
Microsoft Outlook10%
Scrum10%
Six Sigma8%
LinkedIn8%
Microsoft Visio8%
Workday7%
Confluence7%
Adobe Acrobat7%
Enterprise Resource Planning6%
Microsoft Project6%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

ProSidian Consulting, LLC70
CORP-Corporate Office37
Flextronics International USA, Inc.30
PPD Argentina, S.A.24
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited23
AECOM19
Magna International18
City of New York17
Junior Adventures Group17
Anduril Industries17
GD Information Technology, Inc.16
SOSi16

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