Operations and sales

General and Operations Manager in San Francisco

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

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 122 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
6%
7 of 122 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.

PMPProject Management Institute
2%
2 of 122 postings$555 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepProject Management Institute →
CWIAmerican Welding Society
1%
1 of 122 postings$1,150 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepAmerican Welding Society →
Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)
1%
1 of 122 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
ServSafe Food Protection ManagerNational Restaurant Association
1%
1 of 122 postings$179 exam · fee checked 2026-08~16 hrs prepNational Restaurant Association →
Master's DegreeAccredited institution
4%
5 of 122 postingsAccredited institution →

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.

$70,960

10th percentile

$149,990

median

$330,110

90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

OpenAI · Zoox · Action Property Management · Harvey · Via · Equinox · SpaceX · Verkada · Anthropic · Hinge Health · Lyft · Oura · Zip · Brex · Databricks · Figma · Mercor · Notion · Robinhood · Scale AI · Sierra · Sweetgreen · 1X · Artech Information System · Asana · Braze · Cognition · Current · Datadog · Decagon · Fixins Soul Kitchen · Gusto · Instawork · Lucid Motors · Mission Healthcare · Natera · Ridgeline · Roblox · Stripe · Vercel · W3R Consulting

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