Production program manager vs senior product manager

The differences between production program managers and senior product managers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 8-10 years to become both a production program manager and a senior product manager. Additionally, a senior product manager has an average salary of $133,868, which is higher than the $82,043 average annual salary of a production program manager.

The top three skills for a production program manager include program management, continuous improvement and sigma. The most important skills for a senior product manager are product management, cloud, and product strategy.

Production program manager vs senior product manager overview

	Production Program Manager	Senior Product Manager
Yearly salary	$82,043	$133,868
Hourly rate	$39.44	$64.36
Growth rate	10%	10%
Number of jobs	197,712	119,025
Job satisfaction	-	4
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 73%	Bachelor's Degree, 72%
Average age	39	39
Years of experience	10	10

Production program manager vs senior product manager salary

Production program managers and senior product managers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Production Program Manager	Senior Product Manager
Average salary	$82,043	$133,868
Salary range	Between $57,000 And $118,000	Between $98,000 And $182,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Roku
Best paying industry	-	Start-up

Differences between production program manager and senior product manager education

There are a few differences between a production program manager and a senior product manager in terms of educational background:

	Production Program Manager	Senior Product Manager
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 73%	Bachelor's Degree, 72%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Georgia	University of Georgia

Production program manager vs senior product manager demographics

Here are the differences between production program managers' and senior product managers' demographics:

	Production Program Manager	Senior Product Manager
Average age	39	39
Gender ratio	Male, 73.2% Female, 26.8%	Male, 68.5% Female, 31.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.0% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 8.7% Asian, 8.2% White, 74.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 3.0% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 8.7% Asian, 8.2% White, 74.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	10%	10%

Differences between production program manager and senior product manager duties and responsibilities

Production program manager example responsibilities.

Manage implementation of referrals, coordinate assignment of new physicians and create support network for transitioning patients during clinic closure.
Revise company quality process to meet the more stringent ISO establish standards.
Direct the development of custom power train systems from OEM commercial products into customer-specific military applications.
Provide strategic guidance and day-to-day direction of end-to-end development and manufacture of storage solutions for OEM customer.
Represent the logistics business division for all quality relate issues including process development for all ISO and Non-ISO certify warehouse locations.
Train and coach SME's to present virtually.

Senior product manager example responsibilities.

Manage and lead pipeline visualization project team to successful presentation at annual customer event.
Research reimbursement and payment/coding policies with manage care plans and Medicare for new services.
Manage customer CRM implementations, upgrades and customer relationships (at all client levels) with sales team as SME.
Manage the PLM and PDM product quality data metrics to review process successes and deficiencies enhancing existing product delivery work cycles.
Lead SaaS application visibility and performance monitoring in hybrid enterprise to accelerate adoption of cloud.
Manage requirements capture, engineering and QA schedules, feature stability and iterative feature revisions.

Production program manager vs senior product manager skills

Common production program manager skills

Program Management, 26%
Continuous Improvement, 15%
Sigma, 10%
Earned Value Management, 7%
Lean Manufacturing, 6%
R, 5%

Common senior product manager skills

Product Management, 11%
Cloud, 6%
Product Strategy, 4%
User Stories, 4%
Product Vision, 4%
Product Roadmap, 4%

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