chief product officer

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.

The most in-demand skills for this role include characteristics of products, marketing management, product packaging requirements, business strategy concepts, product comprehension, product data management. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives chief product officer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.