Product Management Careers in Japan: What 566 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 566
- 234
- 57%
- 51%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
49
3-4 years of experience
153
5-9 years of experience
101
10+ years of experience
22
36%
30% day-to-day or above
Stakeholder Management
44%
Project Management
40%
Data Analysis
38%
SaaS
31%
Generative AI
26%
Agile
21%
SQL
19%
Scrum
13%
566 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
37%
11% day-to-day or above
49 postings
3–4 years
40%
28% day-to-day or above
Agile 31% (+19)
Data Analysis 49% (+14)
153 postings
5–9 years
49%
53% day-to-day or above
101 postings
10+ years
36%
Project Management 59% (+23)
22 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥10,000,000 · 289 postings state pay
¥8,000,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥11,500,000
Median ¥8,300,000 · 33 postings state pay
¥7,500,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥10,000,000
Median ¥10,000,000 · 90 postings state pay
¥8,000,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥11,500,000
Median ¥10,800,000 · 31 postings state pay
¥9,500,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥13,000,000
Working Conditions
- 120 days
64 postings
- 20 h
53 postings
- 44%
- 26%
Fully remote
38
Hybrid
163
On-site
18
562 postings
What Comes Next
People management
18
Senior leadership
17
Specialist track
10
Project management
9
Employers naming each step, of 27 that name one
Levels by Job Title
Specialist track
Entry / new graduate
4
Junior / associate
4
Senior
63
Principal
2
Management track
Team lead
24
Manager
22
Director
7
Executive
2
Individual-contributor level
73 postings from 39 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Product Management · individual-contributor level
median ¥11,300,000 · 32 postings
¥10,000,000
Typical advertised range (25th to 75th percentile)
¥14,900,000
English · 68 postings
Daily English
26%
Some English
22%
No English stated
51%
Japanese · 72 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
74%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
19%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
3%
No level stated
4%
5 years median (middle half 3 to 5)
over 52 postings stating a threshold
48% of postings (35)
Team-lead level
24 postings from 16 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Product Management · team-lead level
English · 21 postings
Daily English
33%
Some English
48%
No English stated
19%
Japanese · 22 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
64%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
23%
Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)
5%
No level stated
9%
6 years median (middle half 3 to 7.75)
over 16 postings stating a threshold
29% of postings (7)
4 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Manager level
22 postings from 19 employers
Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.
These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.
Product Management · manager level
English · 22 postings
Daily English
50%
Some English
27%
No English stated
23%
Japanese · 22 postings
Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)
77%
Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)
18%
No level stated
5%
5 years median (middle half 4 to 5)
over 16 postings stating a threshold
23% of postings (5)
Project Management 50% (+17 pts over the level below)
Excel 14% (+14 pts over the level below)
Information Security 18% (+10 pts over the level below)
terms counted over 22 postings at this level
3 openings are titled as a candidate for this level
Who Is Hiring
All Product Management openings
566 postings from 234 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Product Management career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Product Management job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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