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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.

Also known as chief product director, chief product manager, CPO.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 2 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

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

The 2 nearest destinations from chief product officer, each one a link to that move’s record. 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.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 2 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A chief product officer needs 21 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area

develop product policies management skills
develop the product catalogue communication, collaboration and creativity
product packaging requirements engineering, manufacturing and construction
lead managers of company departments management skills
develop new products communication, collaboration and creativity
interact with the board of directors communication, collaboration and creativity
keep up to date on product knowledge information skills
lead the brand strategic planning process management skills
perform product planning management skills
plan product management management skills

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a chief product officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a chief product officer’s work. 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.