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Director of Product jobs: 973 open roles, pay, industries and skills

973 open Director of Product jobs, taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Product Director, Director, Product, Senior Director of Product, Global Director of Product, Regional Director of Product. Listings that state pay show a median of $238,000 a year.

The market for Director of Product work

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

Verified open Director of Product jobs
973

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

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Median pay in listings that state it
$238,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
California (271)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (44%)

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Listings that are remote
44%

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Listings that ask for an AI skill
45%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a Director of Product does

Director role in Product.

A director of product leads a team inside the function and answers for the product roadmap, the product managers and the decisions about what gets built.

Usually reports to a vice president or a C-suite leader, and manages managers and individual contributors. Senior and global director titles are counted here.

Other ways this role is written

  • Director of Product
  • Product Director
  • Director, Product
  • Senior Director of Product
  • Global Director of Product
  • Regional Director of Product
  • Director of Product Management

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

Open Director of Product jobs

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

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Director of Product salary

From 334 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$198,000
Median
$238,000
Upper quarter
$275,000

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 Director of Product 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 Director of Product jobs are

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

Skills Director of Product jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 447 Director of Product listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in Director of Product listings

  1. 1. go-to-market20%
  2. 2. onboarding12%
  3. 3. agile10%
  4. 4. cross-functional leadership10%
  5. 5. supply chain10%
  6. 6. machine learning9%
  7. 7. sql8%
  8. 8. logistics7%
  9. 9. excel7%
  10. 10. forecasting7%

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 Director of Product 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.

45% of 528 open Director of Product listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 34% of all Product openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work21%
  2. 2. AI workflow automation14%
  3. 3. AI product management14%
  4. 4. AI governance and risk8%
  5. 5. LLM application engineering8%
  6. 6. AI adoption and change management4%

Do AI skills change director of product pay?

For Product roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for director of product 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

The same function at other levels: where this role comes from and where it leads.

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Job titles under Director of Product

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

Employers hiring for Director of Product roles

  • Capital One 29
  • CVS Health 12
  • Walmart 9
  • GSK 8
  • JPMorgan Chase 8
  • ServiceNow 7
  • BNY 7
  • Oracle 7
  • Danaher 7
  • Cyberhaven 7
  • Axon Enterprise 7
  • Spindle Ai (spindle.ai) 7

Director of Product questions

What does a Director of Product do?
A director of product leads a team inside the function and answers for the product roadmap, the product managers and the decisions about what gets built. Usually reports to a vice president or a C-suite leader, and manages managers and individual contributors. Senior and global director titles are counted here.
What else is a Director of Product called?
The same job is also written Product Director, Director, Product, Senior Director of Product, Global Director of Product, Regional Director of Product, Director of Product Management.
How many Director of Product jobs are open?
973 verified open Director of Product jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a Director of Product make?
Among 334 open Director of Product listings that state pay, the median is $238,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $198,000 and $275,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are Director of Product jobs?
California (271), New York (139), Texas (57), Massachusetts (50) have the most open Director of Product listings. About 44% of listings that state a work arrangement are remote.
Which state pays a Director of Product the most?
Of the states with enough listings that state pay, California has the highest median at $269,000.
Which industries hire for Director of Product roles?
Technology & Software (44%), Financial Services & Banking (17%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (8%), Manufacturing & Industrial (7%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do Director of Product jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Director of Product listings are go-to-market, onboarding, agile, cross-functional leadership, supply chain.
Do Director of Product jobs ask for AI skills?
45% of 528 open Director of Product listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI tools in daily work.

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