Product Jobs Hiring Report — June 2026

Key facts

• As of June 2026, there are 3,842 open product jobs across 2,015 companies on the direct-apply boards I track.
• Net hiring is positive: +762 net new roles in the last 28 days (1,868 opened against 1,106 closed).
• 495 companies posted their first product role in the last 28 days — a quarter of all employers hiring this month are new to the pool.
• Disclosed pay sits at a $144,625–$180,000 median band, but only 16% of postings (n=132) name a number.
• Remote roles are 32% of openings — the clear minority.

The headline this month isn't the 3,842 open roles — it's who's posting them. Nearly a quarter of the companies hiring for product right now (495 of 2,015) opened their first product role in the last 28 days. That's not a handful of giants stacking reqs; it's a wide, shallow distribution of employers each adding a seat or two. For anyone job-hunting, that changes the math: the opportunity is spread across hundreds of names you probably haven't heard of, not concentrated in a dozen logos.

How many product jobs are open right now?

There are 3,842 open product jobs across 2,015 companies as of June 2026. That works out to under two roles per company on average, which tells you most employers here are hiring one or two product people, not building out whole orgs. A few outliers carry more weight — Stripe alone has 24 active, OKX 23, Datadog 17 — but the long tail is the story. You can browse the full set on the product jobs board.

One caveat I'll repeat every edition: this is first-party data scraped daily from companies' own Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby boards. It's not the whole market. It skips LinkedIn-only listings, recruiter postings and roles that never hit a public ATS. What it gives you in exchange is honesty — every number here is a live posting I can point to, not a survey estimate or an aggregator's inflated count.

Is product hiring growing or cooling?

Growing, and not marginally. Over the last 28 days the boards added 1,868 roles and closed 1,106, for a net gain of +762. That's a healthy ratio — roughly 1.7 roles opening for every one that closed or got filled. Closures aren't a bad sign here; they mostly mean roles got filled or pulled, and a churn rate around 29% of the opened volume is normal turnover, not a freeze.

What I'd flag is the breadth of the inflow. With 495 first-time employers in the same window, a big chunk of that +762 is coming from companies entering the pool rather than existing ones expanding. That's the kind of growth that holds up — it's not one sector overheating, it's broad demand. If you tracked only the big names you'd miss it entirely.

What do product jobs pay?

The median disclosed band is $144,625–$180,000 USD a year — but read that with both eyes open, because only 16% of postings (132 of them) disclose pay at all. Five out of six roles tell you nothing about money up front.

Within that disclosed set, Product Manager roles land almost identically at $142,150–$180,000 (n=126), which makes sense given PM titles dominate the disclosed sample. The narrowness there isn't a coincidence — when companies do publish a band, the bulk of them are mid-to-senior PM roles clustered in that ~$142k–$180k range. I wouldn't read the top of the band as a ceiling; principal and director roles, which mostly don't disclose, sit above it. Treat the figure as a floor-to-midpoint signal for senior individual-contributor product work, not the full distribution. More detail, including how the band moves over time, lives on the product salaries page.

The disclosure gap itself is worth a comment. With pay transparency laws spreading, 16% feels low, and it tells you most of these boards are still operating in markets — or under policies — that don't force a number. Practically, that means you should assume you'll be negotiating without a public anchor four times out of five. Walk in with the disclosed median as your reference point and make them name a figure.

Which roles and seniority levels dominate?

Product roles are 3,500 of the 3,842 — no surprise on a product board — but the function mix underneath is worth a look. Engineering shows up 241 times, design 62, data analytics 35. Those are mostly product-adjacent hybrid titles (think product engineers, product designers, product analysts) that got swept in by title. If you're a designer or analyst hunting specifically, the volume here is thin; this is a PM-heavy dataset by a wide margin.

On seniority, the market is squarely mid-to-senior:

• Senior: 1,480 roles
• Unspecified: 1,497 (most of these read as standard PM roles with no explicit level)
• Principal: 608
• Director: 149
• Junior: 76
• Executive: 32

The junior number is the one that should stop you. Seventy-six junior roles out of 3,842 — under 2% of the board — is brutal if you're trying to break into product. Senior and principal together account for more than 2,000 roles. Companies on direct-apply boards are overwhelmingly hiring people who already have the title, not training people into it. If you're early-career, this dataset is honest with you: the door is narrow, and most of these postings aren't for you. Your better bet is internal transfers, smaller companies, or roles that don't carry the "product" label yet.

The flip side: if you're a senior or principal PM, this is a strong market. The two largest buckets are built for you, and the 608 principal openings in particular suggest companies are paying up for people who can operate without hand-holding.

Which companies are hiring product fastest?

Checkout.com leads net-new product hiring with +11 over the last 28 days, and every one of its 11 product roles is freshly active — a from-scratch product build, by the look of it. You can see the live set on Checkout.com's page. Right behind it:

• Gen Digital — +10 net, 10 active
• Hostinger — +9 net, 9 active
• Lightspeed — +8 net, 8 active
• Plaid — +8 net, 8 active
• Stripe — +7 net, but on a much bigger base of 24 active
• Datadog — +7 net, 17 active
• 42dot — +6 net, 7 active
• OKX — +6 net, 23 active
• HelloFresh — +6 net, 7 active

Two patterns jump out. First, fintech and payments are doing the heavy lifting — Checkout.com, Plaid, Stripe and OKX are all in or near that space, and OKX's 23 active roles make it one of the deepest single benches on the board. Second, the leaderboard is mostly companies where net-new roughly equals total active — Checkout.com, Gen Digital, Hostinger, Lightspeed and Plaid all have nearly every product role opened in the last month. That's a sign of fresh teams or fast scaling, and it's where I'd point someone who wants to get in early rather than slot into an established org.

Stripe and Datadog play the opposite game: steady additions on top of large existing footprints. A +7 on Stripe's 24 active is maintenance hiring for a big product org, not a sprint. Both are worth watching if you want a more mature team. I keep the full ranking updated on the product movers page if you want to track how these shift week to week.

Where are the remote product jobs?

Remote is 32% of product openings — meaningful, but the minority. Roughly two in three roles expect you in an office or a hybrid arrangement. That's a useful reality check against the assumption that product work defaults to remote; on these boards it doesn't. If remote is non-negotiable for you, you're effectively competing for a third of the listed volume, which sharpens the case for applying early and broadly.

Is this a good time to look for a product job?

Yes — if you're mid-level or senior. The +762 net gain, the 1.7-to-1 open-to-close ratio, and 495 brand-new employers all point to a market that's expanding rather than contracting. Senior and principal candidates have over 2,000 roles aimed squarely at them, and the disclosed pay band ($144,625–$180,000) holds up.

It's a harder time if you're trying to break in. With 76 junior roles on the entire board, early-career product seekers are fighting over scraps of the listed volume. That's not a reason to give up — it's a reason to target the new entrants and smaller companies, where titles are looser and a generalist who can do real product work has more room than a strict req filter at a big firm allows.

What this means for job seekers right now

Three concrete moves. First, go where the building is happening — Checkout.com, Gen Digital, Hostinger, Lightspeed and Plaid each spun up an entire active product slate in the last month, which means open structure, fewer incumbents, and a real shot at shaping the role. Second, anchor your salary expectations to $142k–$180k for senior PM work and force a number early, because five of six postings won't give you one. Third, if you're senior or principal, apply wide and soon — the breadth across 2,015 companies means your next role is probably at a name you'd never have searched for, and the 495 first-time employers won't all still be hiring by July. Check the board weekly; this pool turns over fast.