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Chief Product Officer (CPO) jobs: 210 open roles, pay, industries and skills

210 open Chief Product Officer jobs (CPO), taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Head of Product, Chief Product and Technology Officer. Listings that state pay show a median of $227,000 a year.

The market for Chief Product Officer work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Chief Product Officer jobs
210

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$227,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
New York (53)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (50%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Listings that are remote
40%

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Listings that ask for an AI skill
49%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a CPO does

C-suite role in Product.

What the company builds and why: product strategy, the roadmap, and the product and design teams.

Usually reports to the CEO.

Other ways this role is written

  • CPO
  • Chief Product Officer
  • Head of Product
  • Chief Product and Technology Officer

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Chief Product Officer jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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CPO salary

From 61 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$177,000
Median
$227,000
Upper quarter
$260,000

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for CPO jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where CPO jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills CPO jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 49 Chief Product Officer listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in CPO listings

  1. 1. go-to-market39%
  2. 2. onboarding31%
  3. 3. cross-functional leadership8%
  4. 4. lean8%
  5. 5. stakeholder management8%
  6. 6. figma8%
  7. 7. logistics8%
  8. 8. agile8%
  9. 9. crm6%
  10. 10. forecasting6%

Across all Product openings

  1. 1. agile13%
  2. 2. onboarding11%
  3. 3. go-to-market11%
  4. 4. sql6%
  5. 5. supply chain6%
  6. 6. project management6%
  7. 7. stakeholder management5%
  8. 8. machine learning5%
  9. 9. excel4%
  10. 10. scrum4%

AI skills for CPO jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

49% of 69 open Chief Product Officer listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 34% of all Product openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work33%
  2. 2. AI product management19%
  3. 3. AI workflow automation17%
  4. 4. AI adoption and change management9%
  5. 5. AI strategy and use cases4%
  6. 6. LLM application engineering4%

Do AI skills change chief product officer pay?

For Product roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for chief product officer alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Product listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +9.8% (about $20.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$210,000
median, from 1,000 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$180,000
median, from 339 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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The Product ladder

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Job titles under CPO

The exact titles employers use, with their own job and salary pages.

Employers hiring for CPO roles

  • Confidential 6
  • Google 6
  • Lemontree 4
  • Crexi 3
  • Shield AI 3
  • Stripe 3
  • KRUSH Tech 2
  • Spence 2
  • PAR Technology 2
  • RepliGen 2
  • Producto 2
  • Airwallex 2

CPO questions

What does a CPO do?
What the company builds and why: product strategy, the roadmap, and the product and design teams. Usually reports to the CEO.
What does CPO stand for?
CPO stands for Chief Product Officer. The same job is also written Head of Product, Chief Product and Technology Officer.
How many CPO jobs are open?
210 verified open Chief Product Officer jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a CPO make?
Among 61 open Chief Product Officer listings that state pay, the median is $227,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $177,000 and $260,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are CPO jobs?
New York (53), California (47), Texas (11), Illinois (9) have the most open Chief Product Officer listings. About 40% of listings that state a work arrangement are remote.
Which state pays a CPO the most?
Of the states with enough listings that state pay, California has the highest median at $254,000.
Which industries hire for CPO roles?
Technology & Software (50%), Financial Services & Banking (17%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (9%), Manufacturing & Industrial (6%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do CPO jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Chief Product Officer listings are go-to-market, onboarding, cross-functional leadership, lean, stakeholder management.
Do CPO jobs ask for AI skills?
49% of 69 open Chief Product Officer listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI tools in daily work.

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