Operations and sales

General and Operations Manager in the United States

303 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 303 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
17%
50 of 303 postingsAccredited institution →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
7%
20 of 303 postingsAccredited institution →

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

AWS SAAAmazon Web Services
0%
1 of 303 postings$150 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepAmazon Web Services →
ITIL 4 FoundationPeopleCert / AXELOS
0%
1 of 303 postings$400 exam · fee checked 2026-08~30 hrs prepPeopleCert / AXELOS →
Certified Six Sigma Green BeltAmerican Society for Quality
1%
2 of 303 postings$548 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepAmerican Society for Quality →
PMPProject Management Institute
2%
7 of 303 postings$555 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepProject Management Institute →
CWIAmerican Welding Society
0%
1 of 303 postings$1,150 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepAmerican Welding Society →
CCIECisco
0%
1 of 303 postings$2,050 exam · fee checked 2026-08~1000 hrs prepCisco →
CIPP/USIAPP
0%
1 of 303 postings$550 exam · fee checked 2026-08~80 hrs prepIAPP →
CISMISACA
0%
1 of 303 postings$760 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepISACA →
CISSPISC2
0%
1 of 303 postings$749 exam · fee checked 2026-08~300 hrs prepISC2 →
RNNCSBN / State Boards of Nursing
0%
1 of 303 postings$200 exam · fee checked 2026-08~300 hrs prepNCSBN / State Boards of Nursing →
Salesforce Certified AdministratorSalesforce
0%
1 of 303 postings$200 exam · fee checked 2026-08~100 hrs prepSalesforce →
TS/SCIU.S. Government (DCSA)
0%
1 of 303 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
CCNPCisco
1%
2 of 303 postings$700 exam · fee checked 2026-08~300 hrs prepCisco →
ServSafe Food Protection ManagerNational Restaurant Association
1%
3 of 303 postings$179 exam · fee checked 2026-08~16 hrs prepNational Restaurant Association →
CPAAICPA / State Boards of Accountancy
1%
4 of 303 postings$1,500 exam · fee checked 2026-08~400 hrs prepAICPA / State Boards of Accountancy →
Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)
3%
10 of 303 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

High school diploma or equivalent29%
Bachelor’s degree27%
Some college, no degree22%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 11-1021.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$50,090

10th percentile

$105,770

median

$253,390

90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Stripe · Anduril Industries · HelloFresh · Via · Lucid Motors · Verkada · Anthropic · Fanatics Commerce · Databricks · Flexport · Lyft · Samsara · Blink Health · Datadog · Elastic · GitLab · Instawork · Morgan & Morgan · Rocket Lab · Scale AI · BAYADA Home Health Care · Coinbase · Ethos Life · Green Thumb Industries · Natera · Oscar Health · Oura · Robinhood · Affirm · Divergent Technologies · Dropbox · Duolingo · Figma · Fivetran · Focus Financial Partners · MongoDB · Scout Motors · Shields Health Solutions · Success Academy Charter Schools · Sweetgreen · Asana · Betterment · Brex · Charlie Health · Clover Health · Comprehensive Mobile Care · Convene · Figure AI · Instacart · Mercury · Misfits Market · Monzo · Nuro · Peloton · Redwood Materials · Roblox · Skild AI · Spring Health · AccuWeather · Agility Robotics · Alloy · Antora Energy · Apptronik · Bombas · Braze · Brilla Public Charter Schools · Cloudflare · Collective Health · DIG Restaurant Teams · Discord · Epirus · FanDuel · Formic · Found · Foundation Risk Partners · Gusto · Harbinger Motors · Hippo Insurance · IonQ · Kodiak Robotics · Live Parallel · Mission Healthcare · Modern Health · Pinterest · Ridgeline · SoFi · Thrive Market · Toast · Traeger Grills · Turing · Twilio · Ursa Major Technologies · Vercel · Wiz · Zocdoc