LinkedIn says there are 11,000+ product manager jobs in the US. Indeed says over 18,000. Then you sit down to apply, and the same twenty roles keep showing up. So how many product manager jobs are there that you could apply to this week?

I count them. Every day my system reads company job boards directly, the pages where employers post the roles first. This is what that count showed on 4 November 2026, and what it means for your search.

How many product manager jobs are there right now

On 4 November 2026, the company job boards I track listed 722 product manager roles in the US, at 226 companies.

That counts every open role with "product manager" in the title at a US location. Senior Product Manager, Staff Product Manager, Technical Product Manager and AI Product Manager all count. It counts postings, so a role listed separately for two cities counts twice.

These companies had the most open:

Company	Open product manager roles
Stripe	23
Anduril	22
Databricks	22
Brex	21
Axon	19
Anthropic	16
Coinbase	14
Verkada	14
Pinterest	13
Datadog	11
Harvey	11

Product hiring spreads wide. The top ten companies hold 175 of the 722 roles, about one in four, and 100 companies have exactly one product manager role open. A lot of your market sits at companies you may never have searched by name.

How I counted

I matched "product manager" as a phrase, so Product Marketing Manager (118 US roles that day), Technical Program Manager (239) and Product Owner (5) sit outside this count. I left out 7 roles listed only outside the US, like the UK or "Remote, Global".

These boards lean toward tech, so banks, retailers and hospitals mostly sit outside the count. Read 722 as a clean, dated slice of the market, not the whole of it.

Why job boards show 11,000+ product manager jobs

On the same day, Google showed LinkedIn's page for product manager jobs in the US at 11,000+, and Indeed's at 18,482. Both can be right. They measure something different from my count.

A few things push a job board's number up:

It pulls from many more employers, including staffing agencies and companies I don't track.
The same job often appears more than once, under a different link for each city or each repost.
Loose matching. A search for product manager can return product marketing, project manager and product owner roles.
Old roles. A posting from last spring sits in the list next to one from yesterday, and a closed role can stay up for weeks.

None of this makes a board wrong. It means the headline number tells you very little about your own chances. What matters is how many roles fit your level, your city and your kind of product work.

Where the product manager jobs are, and how senior

Two cities hold most product manager job openings in 2026. A role can list several cities, so these numbers overlap.

Location in the posting	Roles
San Francisco	286
New York	223
Seattle	63
Palo Alto	19
Sunnyvale	18
Chicago	17
Mountain View	17
Washington, DC	16
Says remote	161

161 roles say remote in the location, a little more than one in five. Some boards flag more roles as remote without saying so in the location, but I count only what the posting says.

Level matters more than city. 459 of the 722 titles say Senior, Staff, Principal, Lead, Group or higher. That's 64%. Staff and Principal alone account for 194.

At the other end, only 6 titles say Associate Product Manager or new grad, plus one internship. Another 12 carry "II" or "2", which usually means a step above entry level. And 242 titles carry no level at all.

If you're early in your career, read those 242 closely. The real level often sits in the requirements, not the title.

What kind of product managers companies want

Titles tell you what companies are building. They also tell you what to put near the top of your CV.

89 titles mention AI or agents, about one in eight.
About 76 are platform, infrastructure or developer-tool roles.
28 are growth roles.
17 are hardware, robotics or autonomy roles, at companies like Axon, Skydio and Waabi.
15 say Forward Deployed Product Manager, a newer title for a PM who works inside customer accounts.

So, are product managers still in demand? On this count, yes: 226 companies had a product manager role open on one day. But the demand leans senior and technical, so a generalist competes for a smaller pool than 722 suggests.

If you've shipped anything with AI, platform or growth in it, say so in your first lines. A hiring manager scanning for those words should find them fast, in your summary and your most recent role.

How many product manager jobs fit you

The count that matters is yours. It takes a few minutes to work out.

Search the words employers use. On these boards, "product manager" finds 722 roles, "product lead" finds 21 and "product owner" finds 5.
Cut by level. If you're mid-level, take out the Senior, Staff, Principal, Lead and Group roles.
Cut by location. Keep your cities plus the roles that say remote, if you'd take remote.
Look at who's hiring. If most of what's left sits at one or two companies, your market is smaller than it looks.

Take a mid-level product manager in New York who would also take remote work. Start with 722. Take out the senior titles and the internship, and 262 are left. Keep New York plus the roles that say remote, and you're down to 119.

That 119 is the real market for that person on that day. Anthropic has 12 of them and Stripe has 9.

You can do all four steps by hand. Or use our free job count tool, which gives you the live count for your title and city, with no sign-up. I also keep a hand-picked list of product manager roles from an earlier, smaller count.

Where Zipply fits

I built Zipply because checking roles like this, every day, eats the hours you need for interviews.

Every day we read these company boards and search Google for your titles. We score each role against your CV, skip the weak fits and tell you why, apply to the strong ones for you, and send you one email each morning with what went out. It costs $50 a month, or $550 a year. There is no free trial.

You answer the legal questions, like work authorization and sponsorship, and you see every application we send. We check every tailored CV against your real one, so nothing goes out claiming work you didn't do.

It only works in fields with enough open roles, which is why the count comes first. If your number is thin, I'll tell you before you pay. And nobody, us included, can promise you a job. If it sounds useful, you can start here.

The short version

So how many product manager jobs are there right now? On the company job boards I track, 722 in the US on 4 November 2026, at 226 companies.

64% want Senior or above, and only 6 titles say Associate or new grad.
161 say remote. San Francisco and New York hold most of the rest.
The hiring spreads wide: 100 companies have exactly one PM role open.

If you want the search side of this, this post on AI job search for product managers covers it.

FAQs

How many product manager jobs are there in the US?

On 4 November 2026, I counted 722 open product manager roles in the US on the company job boards I track, at 226 companies, mostly in tech. Job boards that pull from every employer show far more: LinkedIn showed 11,000+ and Indeed 18,482, including repeats and loose matches. Your own number depends on your level and city.

Are product managers still in demand?

Yes, but mostly experienced ones. On 4 November 2026, 226 companies on the boards I track had product manager roles open, and 64% of the 722 titles asked for Senior or above. Only 6 titles said Associate or new grad, so the entry-level market is far tighter than the headline count suggests.

Is product management a dying field?

No, product management is not dying, but it is changing shape. On one day in November 2026, 226 companies had product manager roles open, and 89 of the 722 titles mentioned AI or agents. Companies still hire PMs. They mostly want senior people with technical, platform or AI work to show.