The Definitive Report on the AI PM Market

Here's who's hiring, who gets hired, and all the data you need to understand the AI PM market

The AI PM role is the fastest growing role in PM:

• In 2025, 2x as many people move into the role as the year before.

• Between January of last year and October of this year, over 12,000+ people globally moved into AI PM roles.

How do I know these specific numbers? I’ve teamed up with Alex Hamilton and the amazing team at Live Data to get you all the details.

This report explores who’s hiring, how fast roles are evolving, and what this means for Product Managers everywhere.

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Today’s Post

1. The Big Picture

2. Hiring Trends: Who’s Hiring

3. Educational Backgrounds

4. Retention

5. Industry Dynamics

6. Promotion Timelines

7. AI PM Compensation

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First: About the Data

Any good analyst starts with understanding the dataset. Let’s start there.

We’ve analyzed 18,145 professionals who held AI PM titles, with 12,339 qualifying hires between January 2024 and October 2025 in the Live Data dataset.

Although the dataset is global, there is a heavy US concentration (47%).

Now, into the report…

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1. The Big Picture

Here’s all the top findings in a picture:

I’ve been knee deep in AI PM for the last year. What surprised me from this specific study?

1. Backgrounds: 60% of AI PMs don’t come from computer science. The path from Marketing Manager to AI PM exists at scale. So does Analytics Lead to AI PM. And Product Owner to AI PM. I’ll show you which backgrounds companies actually value and why domain expertise often trumps technical credentials.

2. Compensation: Senior AI PMs at top companies earn between $286K and $569K. But the spread across companies is massive. OpenAI pays differently than Anthropic. Google’s structure differs from Amazon’s. The data shows exactly where the premium compensation is.

3. Promotion speed: Internal moves to AI PM happen in a median of 21 months. But Amazon promotes in under 2 years while Verizon takes 2.6 years. IBM sits at 2.0 years, Google at 2.5 years. These timelines tell you where to focus.

4. Geographic distribution: While 18 countries have 50+ AI PM hires, three markets dominate. The US leads with 5,765 hires, but India and the UK show different patterns.

Now let’s go deeper on all of this.

The full report covers who’s building AI PM teams internally versus buying talent externally, which companies promote fastest, where compensation clusters, and which career paths actually work.

You’ll see specific company-by-company hiring breakdowns, promotion timelines across 15+ major employers, retention patterns by seniority level, and the educational backgrounds that companies actually value.