Product Manager

← All career guides Product and design Product Manager Defines what to build and why, aligning user needs, business goals, and engineering effort into a product direction. Find relevant jobs→Print learning guideOpen Hitchhiker's guide→ Skill coverage 63% 5 of 8 skills Course coverage 38% 6 of 16 courses Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped. Role skills 8 Published coverage 5 Relevant courses 6 Capability map Skills Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog. 01 Product strategy 4 capabilities Product discovery Importance: Essential (5 of 5) Identifies and validates problems worth solving through user evidence. Course coverage Platform Product ManagementProduct Discovery (planned)Roadmapping Importance: Essential (5 of 5) Sequences outcomes and bets into a communicable product roadmap. Course coverage Technology Roadmapping, Outcome-Based Roadmapping and OKRs (planned)Market analysis Importance: Very important (4 of 5) Assesses competitors, positioning, and opportunity size. Course coverage Product Market AnalysisCompetitive Intelligence and Positioning (planned)Product metrics Importance: Essential (5 of 5) Defines and tracks metrics that measure product health and impact. Course coverage Product Metrics, Product Analytics Instrumentation (planned) 02 Product execution 4 capabilities Requirements definition Importance: Essential (5 of 5) Translates problems into clear specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Course coverage Requirements EngineeringRequirements Elicitation Techniques (planned)Prioritization Importance: Essential (5 of 5) Makes explicit trade-offs across value, effort, and risk. Course coverage Product Prioritization, Technical Debt vs. Feature Prioritization (planned)Stakeholder management Importance: Very important (4 of 5) Aligns leadership, customers, and teams around decisions. Course coverage Technical Stakeholder CommunicationStakeholder Mapping and Influence (planned)Agile delivery Importance: Very important (4 of 5) Works with engineering teams through iterative delivery practices. Course coverage Agile Software DevelopmentFreeScrum Fundamentals Learning path Relevant courses Print all introsPrint all cheatsheets Core foundations The concepts this role is built on. Product Market AnalysisRequirements EngineeringProduct Discovery, Product Metrics, Product Prioritization, Technology Roadmapping (planned) Supporting knowledge Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment. Agile Software DevelopmentFreeScrum FundamentalsTechnical Stakeholder CommunicationCompetitive Intelligence and Positioning, Outcome-Based Roadmapping and OKRs, Product Analytics Instrumentation, Requirements Elicitation Techniques, Stakeholder Mapping and Influence, Technical Debt vs. Feature Prioritization (planned) Specializations Deeper paths for particular environments or directions. Platform Product Management Put the map to work Find Product Manager roles. Search multiple job sources at once with queries tailored to this career, then use the skill map above to evaluate what each role actually asks for. Open job search→ Keep exploring More in Product and design Developer Advocate→Technical Writer→ Please mention the word **ACCOMPLISHMENT** and tag RMmEwMTo0Zjg6MWMxZTo4MzUyOjox when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMmEwMTo0Zjg6MWMxZTo4MzUyOjox). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.