Customer research jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-30, Customer research appears in 368 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Product Manager has the most postings mentioning Customer research, with demand share up 8.7% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30
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Frequently asked questions about Customer research
+Is Customer research in demand in 2026?
Yes. Customer research appears in 368 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Product Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning Customer research (72.3% of all postings mentioning Customer research).
+What jobs require Customer research?
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 Customer research are Product Design Manager (9.5% of that role’s postings mention Customer research), Group Product Manager (4.4% of that role’s postings mention Customer research), Product Management Director (4.3% of that role’s postings mention Customer research).
+What skills are commonly paired with Customer research?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), Customer research most often appears alongside product strategy, Product Management, experimentation, Product roadmap, prototyping.
+Where is Customer research most in demand?
As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring Customer research are New York City, San Francisco, London, Boston, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new Customer research content and jobs?
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+Which skills come before and after Customer research?
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 Customer research — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around Customer research
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before Customer research
Skills after Customer research
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: ETL | 1 |
| Before: e-commerce project launch | 1 |
| Before: Facebook | 1 |
| Before: proof of concept | 1 |
| Before: user experience | 1 |
| Before: sql | 1 |
| Before: Technical requirements | 1 |
| Before: Dynamic Graphics Rendering | 1 |
| After: usability testing | 1 |
| After: work order creation | 1 |
| After: customer interviews | 1 |
| After: infrastructure | 1 |
| After: on-page SEO | 1 |
| After: agile methodologies | 1 |
| After: variability | 1 |
| After: Rank Math | 1 |
Roles most likely to require Customer research
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Product Design Manager | 2 | 9.5% |
| Group Product Manager | 6 | 4.4% |
| Product Management Director | 1 | 4.3% |
| Growth Product Manager | 2 | 3.3% |
| Engineering Product Manager | 1 | 2.9% |
| Software Product Manager | 1 | 2.8% |
| Principal Product Manager | 6 | 2.5% |
| Product Manager | 266 | 2.2% |
| AI Product Manager | 4 | 2.0% |
| Digital Product Manager | 2 | 1.6% |
Roles with the most Customer research postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Product Manager | 266 | 72.3% |
| Product Designer | 39 | 10.6% |
| Product Owner | 9 | 2.4% |
| Group Product Manager | 6 | 1.6% |
| Principal Product Manager | 6 | 1.6% |
| Technical Product Manager | 5 | 1.4% |
| UX Designer | 5 | 1.4% |
| AI Product Manager | 4 | 1.1% |
| UX Researcher | 3 | 0.8% |
| Digital Product Manager | 2 | 0.5% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring Customer research
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Klaviyo | 8 |
| Stripe | 7 |
| Tailscale | 7 |
| Fundraise Up | 7 |
| Super | 5 |
| Freshworks | 4 |
| Empower | 4 |
| Vercel | 4 |
| Asana | 4 |
| Xero | 4 |
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 Customer research
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 29 | 7.9% |
| San Francisco | 16 | 4.3% |
| London | 15 | 4.1% |
| Boston | 8 | 2.2% |
| Toronto | 7 | 1.9% |
| Tel Aviv | 6 | 1.6% |
| Barcelona | 5 | 1.4% |
| Amsterdam | 4 | 1.1% |
| Austin | 4 | 1.1% |
Skills commonly paired with Customer research
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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 Customer research by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s Customer research postings by all Customer research 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). Adjusted posting share: 0.1% to 0.1%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,595 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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