Project Manager Jobs in Atlanta, GA

Official local wage data for the broader management occupation family shows a $130,550 median, $148,880 mean, and a $87,420 to $178,580 25th-to-75th percentile range in Atlanta. Current posted salary ranges in the local job sample center on about $110k to $160k, with a broader band of about $82k to $190k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts the mean offered salary on new Georgia openings for this category at about $93,224 (n=1,831).

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Advertised pay

Across the 724 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $82,500 at the 25th percentile, $124,530 at the median and $155,406 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Atlanta is still a viable market for Management, Product & Project, but it is not an easy one. Metro unemployment was 3.4% in August 2026, while the metro labor force and employment level were up 1.7816% and 2.0156% year over year. But total nonfarm employment in the metro was down -0.4584% year over year and Professional and Business Services employment was down -1.1742%, which points to selective rather than broad-based hiring. Statewide occupation signals are softer: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Management, Product & Project employment down 1.2% year over year and active postings down 1.9%, even though the metro still showed more than 1,300 postings across more than 700 companies over the last 90 days.

Best positioned: Mid-career and senior candidates who can prove stakeholder, risk, budget, and data ownership—and who are open to on-site or hybrid roles—have the best odds, because about 90% of sampled openings sit at mid or senior levels and about 95% are on-site or hybrid.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming this is a remote-first software PM market: only about 5% of sampled roles are remote, and a large share of visible "project" postings sit in construction-adjacent work that software/product candidates should filter out.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,560 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Google Inc: 35 open roles
2. The Home Depot, Inc.: 21 open roles
3. Delta Air Lines, Inc.: 20 open roles
4. GXO Logistics, Inc.: 14 open roles
5. VXI: 12 open roles
6. Microsoft: 11 open roles
7. Bodyarmor: 9 open roles
8. Emory Healthcare: 9 open roles
9. SAGE: 9 open roles
10. The Coca-Cola Company: 9 open roles

Where the openings are

• Atlanta: 885
• Alpharetta: 114
• Duluth: 36
• Marietta: 35
• Kennesaw: 30
• Norcross: 17
• Sandy Springs: 16
• Newnan: 15

Work arrangement

on-site 1,067 (69%), hybrid 387 (25%), remote 97 (6%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity exists, but it is spread across a long tail rather than concentrated in one employer. The metro showed more than 1,300 postings across more than 700 companies over the last 90 days, and the employer mix is fragmented. The most consistently active names were The Home Depot, Google Inc, Jacobs Engineering Group, Amazon, Turner & Townsend, Dematic, TriNet, and Truist Financial Corporation. For this category, the cleanest targets are enterprise product/program and transformation roles inside software development, IT services and IT consulting, and financial services, which accounted for about 15%, about 10%, and about 5% of the sampled mix. A complication is that about 45% of the raw "project" sample sits in construction-adjacent work. Because construction managers route to a separate specialty, software PMs and general program managers should filter aggressively instead of assuming every project posting is a true fit. The market is also shaped by how jobs are structured. About 50% of sampled openings were mid-level and about 40% were senior, while about 65% were on-site and about 30% hybrid. That means the best opportunities are concentrated in candidates who can commute, speak to real delivery ownership, and fit an employer's domain on day one.

• Enterprise product and platform programs (high): Large employers such as The Home Depot, Google Inc, and Amazon are repeatedly present in the sample, and software development makes up about 15% of the local mix.
• Consulting and transformation delivery (moderate): IT services and IT consulting is about 10% of the mix, and firms want stakeholder, risk, budget, and scheduling skills that travel across clients.
• Financial-services programs (moderate): Financial services is about 5% of the mix, with Truist Financial Corporation appearing among the more active employers.
• Remote-only product/project roles (limited): Remote is only about 5% of the sampled market, so location-flexible searches are much tighter here.

Where to focus: Focus first on hybrid or on-site enterprise roles where you can show budget, stakeholder, and delivery ownership, and treat construction-heavy project postings as a separate lane unless that is your background.

Roles worth searching next

• Business Analyst / Product Analyst: It uses stakeholder, data, and requirements skills that overlap heavily with PM work, but usually asks for less direct ownership.
• Customer Implementation Manager: It keeps you in delivery, launches, cross-functional coordination, and client communication without requiring full roadmap ownership.
• Business Operations Manager: This path values prioritization, process design, KPI review, and executive communication—the same muscles strong chiefs of staff and program managers use.
• Change Management / PMO Analyst: It is a realistic path for candidates with governance, communications, rollout, and process-improvement experience.

What postings ask for

• PMP (differentiator | immediate): PMP is the certification most often required in sampled Atlanta postings, even if it appears in only about 10% of them, so it helps most in program/project searches where employers want proof of formal delivery discipline. Who: Mid-career project/program candidates and career switchers who already have qualifying project hours.
• Stakeholder management (table_stakes | immediate): Stakeholder management showed up in about 20% of local postings, and metro employers report project delays when they cannot find people with the right skills. Who: Anyone targeting program manager, chief of staff, or cross-functional delivery work.
• Risk and budget management (table_stakes | immediate): Risk management appeared in about 20% of local postings and budget management in about 15%, which means employers want people who can make tradeoffs, not just update status decks. Who: Project managers, delivery managers, PMO talent, and operations-to-program switchers.
• Data analysis (differentiator | immediate): Data analysis appears in about 10% of local postings, and 35% of respondents in Hays' 2026 guide flagged business and analytical skills as in demand. Who: Product managers, program managers, and business analysts moving toward PM work.
• Agile delivery (differentiator | near-term): Agile is the single most-requested skill in AI product postings, mentioned in 28% of them, and it remains useful because Atlanta's local product community is actively discussing how AI changes the SDLC. Who: Product managers, TPMs, scrum-adjacent candidates, and software delivery leads.
• AI/data literacy and responsible AI (premium | immediate): Essential AI PM skills in 2026 include AI/ML fundamentals, data literacy, prompt craft, and responsible AI, and local ProductCamp sessions in September focused directly on AI-led product change. Who: Product managers and technical program managers competing for modern software or platform roles.

Questions about this market

What do Management, Product & Project roles pay in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA?

Official local wage data for the broader management occupation family shows a $130,550 median, $148,880 mean, and a $87,420 to $178,580 25th-to-75th percentile range in Atlanta. Current posted salary ranges in the local job sample center on about $110k to $160k, with a broader band of about $82k to $190k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts the mean offered salary on new Georgia openings for this category at about $93,224 (n=1,831). This is still a strong-paying category, but the headline BLS wages are for the whole management occupation family, which includes higher-paid managers beyond pure product and project roles. In practice, current opening-level pay looks healthier for experienced candidates than for career starters.

Where is demand for Management, Product & Project roles in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA concentrated?

Opportunity exists, but it is spread across a long tail rather than concentrated in one employer. The metro showed more than 1,300 postings across more than 700 companies over the last 90 days, and the employer mix is fragmented. The most consistently active names were The Home Depot, Google Inc, Jacobs Engineering Group, Amazon, Turner & Townsend, Dematic, TriNet, and Truist Financial Corporation. For this category, the cleanest targets are enterprise product/program and transformation roles inside software development, IT services and IT consulting, and financial services, which accounted for about 15%, about 10%, and about 5% of the sampled mix. A complication is that about 45% of the raw "project" sample sits in construction-adjacent work. Because construction managers route to a separate specialty, software PMs and general program managers should filter aggressively instead of assuming every project posting is a true fit. The market is also shaped by how jobs are structured. About 50% of sampled openings were mid-level and about 40% were senior, while about 65% were on-site and about 30% hybrid. That means the best opportunities are concentrated in candidates who can commute, speak to real delivery ownership, and fit an employer's domain on day one.

Which employers are hiring the most Management, Product & Project talent in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA?

Recent postings show the most activity from The Home Depot (20 postings), Google Inc (20 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (15 postings), Amazon (10 postings), Turner & Townsend (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Management, Product & Project roles in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 65% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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