Writing a program manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,369 live program manager postings, 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: 1,369
Employers: 606
Remote: 12%
Typical pay: $100k–217k
Verified live (7d): 1,295

What they ask for

Counted across 935 of the most recent 1,369 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

PMP48%
Microsoft Excel30%
Microsoft PowerPoint20%
Atlassian JIRA17%
Microsoft Outlook11%
Scrum9%
Six Sigma9%
Microsoft Visio8%
Adobe Acrobat8%
Microsoft Project7%
Confluence7%
Enterprise Resource Planning6%
Smartsheet6%
Customer Relationship Management6%

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 Office39
Flextronics International USA, Inc.23
Kellogg Brown & Root (U.K.) Limited22
AECOM18
Magna International16
SOSi16
PPD Argentina, S.A.15
Anduril Industries14
Turner & Townsend14
Moog Military Aircraft LLC12
Wabtec11

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