retention jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-30, retention appears in 263 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Product Manager has the most postings mentioning retention.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30
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Frequently asked questions about retention
+Is retention in demand in 2026?
Yes. retention appears in 263 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Product Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning retention (43.7% of all postings mentioning retention).
+What jobs require retention?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning retention are Growth Product Manager (13.3% of that role’s postings mention retention), AI Lead (4.5% of that role’s postings mention retention), Product Management Director (4.3% of that role’s postings mention retention).
+What skills are commonly paired with retention?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), retention most often appears alongside Activation, Product Management, Onboarding, A/B testing, experimentation.
+Where is retention most in demand?
As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring retention are New York City, London, San Francisco, Seattle, Bengaluru, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new retention content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning retention alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new retention content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after retention?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring retention — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around retention
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before retention
Skills after retention
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: B2B | 2 |
| Before: NPS | 2 |
| Before: wireframes | 2 |
| Before: branding | 1 |
| Before: privacy and security concerns | 1 |
| Before: ECM | 1 |
| Before: Project Manager | 1 |
| Before: Third-party audits | 1 |
| After: Google Suite | 1 |
| After: enterprise data platform modernization | 1 |
| After: NLP | 1 |
| After: Meeting insights | 1 |
| After: leadership and instructional improvements | 1 |
| After: advanced product recommendation algorithms | 1 |
| After: optimization | 1 |
| After: view depth | 1 |
Roles most likely to require retention
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Growth Product Manager | 8 | 13.3% |
| AI Lead | 1 | 4.5% |
| Product Management Director | 1 | 4.3% |
| AI Product Designer | 1 | 4.0% |
| Marketing Analytics Director | 1 | 3.7% |
| AI Product Owner | 1 | 3.2% |
| AI Operations Engineer | 1 | 3.1% |
| Lead Product Manager | 2 | 2.9% |
| Pricing Analyst | 1 | 2.6% |
| Principal Data Scientist | 1 | 2.5% |
Roles with the most retention postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager | 115 | 43.7% |
| Software Engineer | 12 | 4.6% |
| Program Manager | 11 | 4.2% |
| Growth Product Manager | 8 | 3.0% |
| Product Designer | 5 | 1.9% |
| Business Analyst | 4 | 1.5% |
| Platform Engineer | 4 | 1.5% |
| Data Scientist | 3 | 1.1% |
| Engineering Manager | 3 | 1.1% |
| Group Product Manager | 3 | 1.1% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring retention
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Synthesia | 6 |
| OKX | 5 |
| Visa | 4 |
| OpenAI | 3 |
| Parsons Corporation | 3 |
| Stripe | 3 |
| Anthropic | 3 |
| DistroKid | 3 |
| Elastic | 3 |
| Blockchain | 3 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for retention
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 28 | 10.6% |
| London | 7 | 2.7% |
| San Francisco | 7 | 2.7% |
| Seattle | 7 | 2.7% |
| Bengaluru | 5 | 1.9% |
| Berlin | 5 | 1.9% |
| San Jose | 5 | 1.9% |
| Atlanta | 4 | 1.5% |
| Boston | 4 | 1.5% |
Skills commonly paired with retention
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning retention by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s retention postings by all retention postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). An adjusted trend is not shown because comparable posting coverage is insufficient.
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- entity_id
- 2745fe73d509bb2c
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-30
- window_days
- 90
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