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Where a chief product officer can go next

2 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a chief product officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Chief Product Officers conduct the product strategy of a company, define the product vision, prioritise customer needs and design the product roadmap. Key drivers of innovation product processes and revenue growth, they are responsible for the entire product development process and product-related activities which involve design, elaboration, product strategy setting, creating multi-functional partnerships, and new products launch. Moreover, they lead the organisation’s product management team and closely work with the marketing department.

Managers 31 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: innovation engineer, 19%

Fig. 2 — the 2 nearest destinations from chief product officer. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a chief product officer already covers. All 2 are listed in the tables below.

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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chief product officer is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a chief product officer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.