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Marketing Managers

Occupation · SOC 11-2021.00

Plan, direct, or coordinate marketing policies and programs, such as determining the demand for products and services offered by a firm and its competitors, and identify potential customers. Develop pricing strategies with the goal of maximizing the firm's profits or share of the market while ensuring the firm's customers are satisfied. Oversee product development or monitor trends that indicate the need for new products and services.

Also called: Brand Manager · Business Development Manager · Marketing Director · Marketing Manager · Account Supervisor · Business Development Director · Commercial Lines Manager · Market Development Executive · Marketing Coordinator · Product Manager · Business Developer · Category Manager

Job family: Management Occupations

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AI work map

A fast read on where AI already shows up in this occupation, where it stays a copilot, where humans remain in the loop, and what the labor market is doing. Built from observed Claude.ai conversations mapped to O*NET tasks and from published research — measures of usage and exposure, not advice or predictions that the job is going away.

Often handed to AI

Task areas most often handled directively in observed AI conversations — candidates to delegate with light review.

  • Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services. · 0.4%
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Use as a copilot

Task areas where people work with AI — iterating, learning, or checking — staying in the loop rather than handing the task off.

  • Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors. · 3.5%
  • Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers. · 2.7%
  • Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction. · 1.3%
See collaboration patterns →

Keep a human in the loop

Task areas where a human was still judged necessary in a large share of observed conversations — not a safety ruling, an observed-need signal.

  • Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services. · 100.0% need a human
  • Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services. · 100.0% need a human
  • Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors. · 97.5% need a human
See the boundary tasks →

81st-percentile task overlap — yet about 34,300 openings a year (+6.6% projected, BLS), and observed AI use leans 6333% copilot, not hand-off (AEI) . What exposure means →

AI & job outlook

What today's research says about this occupation's exposure to AI, how AI is actually being used in it, and where employment is headed. These are positions within published studies — measures of exposure and usage, not predictions that this job will disappear.

Exposure to current AI

Each study uses its own scale, so the raw scores are not comparable across rows — the percentile (this job's rank among all U.S. occupations with data) is the comparable figure, and sizes the bars.

Measure Rank vs all occupations Percentile Score
Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.) High 88th 1.3
LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou) High 84th 0.9
AI assistant applicability (Microsoft) Moderate 64th 0.2

OpenAI's exposure study scores tasks three ways: with a language model alone (α 0.1), with simple added tooling (β 0.5), and including AI-powered software (γ 0.9). Higher means more of the job's tasks could be done at least twice as fast — not that they will be automated away.

Most of this job's tasks can be done remotely (Dingel–Neiman), which tends to track with higher digital and AI exposure.

Historical automation estimate (2013)

A pre-LLM (2013) estimate of how automatable this job is by computerization and robotics. Shown for historical context only — it is not part of any current AI ranking.

Frey–Osborne probability 0.0 · 9th percentile among occupations · Low

How AI is actually used in this job

Among measured AI assistant conversations mapped to this occupation (Anthropic Economic Index, 2026-01-15), these task types came up most. These are shares of observed AI conversations — not shares of the job, of worker time, or of what could be automated.

Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers. 1.5%
Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services. 1.5%
Confer with legal staff to resolve problems, such as copyright infringement or royalty sharing with outside producers or distributors. 0.5%
Integrate environmental information into product or company marketing strategies, policies, or activities. 0.3%
Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction. 0.3%
Evaluate the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, or return-on-investment and profit-loss projections. 0.3%

Job outlook

Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.

Outlook About average · +6.6% by 2034
Projected annual openings 34,300
Employment 2024 → 2034 407,000 → 433,700

“Annual openings” counts new jobs plus replacements for workers who leave the occupation, so it can be large even when growth is modest.

Where this work sits on the global GenAI gradient

The ILO's 2025 global study scores generative-AI exposure on the international ISCO-08 occupation system, not US SOC. Bridged through the published (and approximate, many-to-many) IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 crosswalk, this US occupation corresponds to the international occupation below. Exposure here means how much of the work's tasks today's AI can attempt — task overlap, not automation, adoption, or jobs lost.

41% mean task exposure (2025)
78th percentile of 427 placed occupations
+12 pts shift 2023 → 2025
International occupation (ISCO-08) Task exposure (2025) Most tasks fall in
Sales and Marketing Managers · 1221 41% Gradient 2

Read the whole six-band gradient on the GenAI exposure gradient page. The crosswalk is approximate: a US occupation can map to several international ones, and the ILO scores describe the international occupation, not this exact US role.

Working with AI in this job

How people actually apply AI to this occupation's tasks, from Claude.ai (Free and Pro) conversations in the Anthropic Economic Index, 2026-01-15. This is one AI assistant's consumer sample — not all AI, not the whole workforce. Autonomy and the collaboration mix are model-rated estimates; figures below the sample floor are hidden.

Augmentation vs. automation 63.3% working with AI · 25.9% handed to AI
Most common way people use AI here Iteration · you and AI go back and forth
Typical AI autonomy 4.0 / 5 · higher = AI acts more independently
Used for work (vs. personal / coursework) 81.4%

What people delegate to AI

The role's most common tasks in AI conversations, each tagged with how people work with the AI on it. “Usage” is the share of observed conversations, not of the job.

Task How Usage
Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors. Iteration 3.5%
Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers. Iteration 2.7%
Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction. Iteration 1.3%
Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services. Directive 0.4%
Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services. 0.4%

Where a human is still needed

Tasks where the model most often judged that a person remained necessary — a useful read on the current boundary, not a guarantee.

Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services. 100.0%
Advise business or other groups on local, national, or international factors affecting the buying or selling of products or services. 100.0%
Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors. 97.5%
Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction. 95.5%
Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers. 92.6%

What people most often hand AI here

Example prompts phrased from the tasks people most often delegate to AI in this occupation (Anthropic Economic Index). Each shows the underlying measured task and its share of observed AI use. They are suggested phrasings of real tasks — starting points, not endorsed instructions.

  • Help me identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.

    From: Identify, develop, or evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors. · 3.5% of measured AI use · task iteration

  • Help me formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers.

    From: Formulate, direct, or coordinate marketing activities or policies to promote products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers. · 2.7% of measured AI use · task iteration

  • Help me develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.

    From: Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction. · 1.3% of measured AI use · task iteration

  • Help me conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services.

    From: Conduct economic or commercial surveys to identify potential markets for products or services. · 0.4% of measured AI use · directive

Tasks

All 20 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, ordered by importance. Each links to its own page with AI-exposure and observed-use detail.

Work activities

Knowledge, skills & abilities

O*NET importance rating, from 1 (not important) to 5 (extremely important).

Knowledge

Sales and Marketing 4.8
English Language 4.5
Administration and Management 4.0
Customer and Personal Service 3.9
Communications and Media 3.8
Computers and Electronics 3.5
Mathematics 3.5
Design 3.1

Abilities

Oral Comprehension 4.0
Written Comprehension 4.0
Oral Expression 4.0
Written Expression 3.9
Deductive Reasoning 3.9
Fluency of Ideas 3.8
Inductive Reasoning 3.8
Speech Clarity 3.8
Originality 3.6
Problem Sensitivity 3.6
Speech Recognition 3.6
Near Vision 3.5
Information Ordering 3.3
Category Flexibility 3.3

Essential skills

Reading Comprehension 3.9
Active Listening 3.9
Speaking 3.9
Critical Thinking 3.9
Active Learning 3.9
Monitoring 3.8
Writing 3.3

Transferable skills

Social Perceptiveness 3.9
Persuasion 3.8
Judgment and Decision Making 3.8
Negotiation 3.6
Complex Problem Solving 3.6
Coordination 3.5
Systems Evaluation 3.5
Time Management 3.5
Operations Analysis 3.4
Management of Personnel Resources 3.4
Systems Analysis 3.3

Skills in demand

Skills employers ask for in job postings for this occupation (Lightcast), with whether each is a common or specialized skill.

Showing the top 40 of 92.

Tools & technology

Example Category
Atlassian JIRA Content workflow software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft Office software Office suite software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software Hot technology In demand
Salesforce software Customer relationship management CRM software Hot technology In demand
Structured query language SQL Data base user interface and query software Hot technology In demand
Adobe Acrobat Document management software Hot technology
Adobe After Effects Video creation and editing software Hot technology
Adobe Creative Cloud software Graphics or photo imaging software Hot technology
Adobe Illustrator Graphics or photo imaging software Hot technology
Adobe InDesign Desktop publishing software Hot technology
Adobe Photoshop Graphics or photo imaging software Hot technology
Amazon Redshift Data base user interface and query software Hot technology
Amazon Web Services AWS software Data base user interface and query software Hot technology
Apache Cassandra Data base management system software Hot technology
Apache Hadoop Data base management system software Hot technology
Apache Hive Data base management system software Hot technology
Apple macOS Operating system software Hot technology
Asana Cloud-based data access and sharing software Hot technology
Atlassian Confluence Project management software Hot technology
C Development environment software Hot technology
Canva Graphics or photo imaging software Hot technology
Cascading style sheets CSS Web platform development software Hot technology
Elasticsearch Data base management system software Hot technology
Extensible markup language XML Enterprise application integration software Hot technology
Facebook Web page creation and editing software Hot technology
Figma Graphical user interface development software Hot technology
GitHub Application server software Hot technology
Google Analytics Data mining software Hot technology
Google Docs Word processing software Hot technology
Google Looker Analytics Business intelligence and data analysis software Hot technology
HubSpot software Sales and marketing software Hot technology
Hypertext markup language HTML Web platform development software Hot technology
IBM SPSS Statistics Analytical or scientific software Hot technology
Intuit QuickBooks Accounting software Hot technology
JavaScript Web platform development software Hot technology
Marketo Marketing Automation Sales and marketing software Hot technology
Microsoft Access Data base user interface and query software Hot technology
Microsoft Azure software Development environment software Hot technology
Microsoft Outlook Electronic mail software Hot technology

Showing the top 40 of 154.

Work context

How characteristic each condition is of the job, on O*NET's 1–5 context scale (higher = more present in day-to-day work). Each condition links to how it varies across all occupations.

E-Mail 5.0
Telephone Conversations 4.9
Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams 4.8
Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team 4.7
Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals 4.6
Contact With Others 4.6
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled 4.5
Freedom to Make Decisions 4.4
Spend Time Sitting 4.4
Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities 4.3
Deal With External Customers or the Public in General 4.3
Time Pressure 4.2
Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results 4.2
Frequency of Decision Making 4.1
Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers 4.0
Level of Competition 4.0
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate 3.8
Written Letters and Memos 3.5
Public Speaking 3.4
Conflict Situations 3.2
Physical Proximity 2.9
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks 2.8
Consequence of Error 2.8
Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People 2.7
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions 2.7
Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable 2.4
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls 2.3
In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment 2.3
Health and Safety of Other Workers 2.2
Degree of Automation 2.1
Spend Time Standing 2.1
Spend Time Walking or Running 1.9
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled 1.9
Exposed to Contaminants 1.5
Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures 1.5
Exposed to Hazardous Equipment 1.5
Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions 1.4
Exposed to Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting Conditions 1.3
Exposed to Radiation 1.3
Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets 1.3

How to get in

Job zone
Zone 4 — Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Typical entry-level education
Bachelor's degree · BLS, the typical path — not a requirement
Related experience
A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Preparation level
SVP (7.0 to < 8.0) — total schooling plus on-the-job experience.

What to study: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services , Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences , Health Professions and Related Programs . Fields of study crosswalked to this occupation (NCES CIP–SOC), not a requirement.

Education of current workers

Share of people in this occupation at each level of education.

Bachelor's Degree 55.8%
Master's Degree 24.4%
First Professional Degree 10.5%
High School Diploma 3.5%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) 3.0%
Some College Courses 2.8%

Interests & work styles

The interests and personal qualities O*NET associates with people who do this work.

Work styles

Dependability 8.0
Achievement Orientation 7.0
Social Orientation 6.0
Adaptability 5.0
Innovation 4.0
Leadership Orientation 3.0

Career interests (Holland / RIASEC)

Enterprising 7.0
Conventional 4.7
Investigative 2.9

Interest areas

Marketing/Advertising 6.6
Management/Administration 6.5
Business Initiatives 6.4
Public Speaking 5.0
Sales 4.9
Finance 3.0
Accounting 3.0

Wages & employment

U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)

407k2024434k2034 (proj.)+6.6% · About average
Projected U.S. employment, 2024–2034 (BLS Employment Projections). A labor-market forecast for the occupation, not an AI-impact forecast.
10th percentile $81,900
25th percentile $111,210
Median (50th) $161,030
75th percentile $211,080
90th percentile
People employed 384,980

Industries that employ this occupation

Where these workers are employed, by number of jobs (national, BLS OEWS). Pay shown is the occupation's national median, not industry-specific.

Industry Workers National median pay
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector 97,200 $165,080
Management of Companies and Enterprises · Sector 50,050 $169,840
Wholesale Trade · Sector 40,030 $158,120
Information · Sector 39,700 $178,130
Finance and Insurance · Sector 36,620 $167,610
Manufacturing · Sector 30,150 $168,210
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · Sector 17,030 $135,030
Health Care and Social Assistance · Sector 12,370 $117,020
Retail Trade · Sector 11,170 $126,200
Educational Services · Sector 10,330 $114,880
Other Services (except Public Administration) · Sector 9,170 $123,080
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing · Sector 7,550 $123,340

Where this work is most concentrated

Industries where this occupation is far more common than in the economy as a whole. The location quotient is how many times more concentrated it is here (a value of 5 means five times its economy-wide share).

Industry Concentration Workers
Management of Companies and Enterprises · Sector 7.14× 50,050
Information · Sector 5.47× 39,700
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector 3.61× 97,200
Radio Broadcasting Stations · National industry 2.86× 370
Television Broadcasting Stations · National industry 2.84× 460
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers · National industry 2.67× 2,990
Wholesale Trade · Sector 2.66× 40,030
Newspaper Publishers · National industry 2.56× 580

Part of the Marketing & Sales career cluster.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay Marketing Managers sits at the 81st percentile of AI task-overlap and the 98th percentile of median pay, placed here against 12 adjacent occupations on the same two axes. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Marketing Managers Online Merchants Advertising and Promotions Managers Management Analysts Advertising Sales Agents Public Relations Specialists Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel Business Intelligence Analysts Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
AI task-overlap percentile (horizontal) vs. median-pay percentile (vertical), across all scored occupations. This occupation is highlighted; related occupations are plotted alongside it. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Side-by-side comparisons place two occupations’ pay, preparation, skills, and AI exposure on the same page — same data, same scale, no forecast.

What you can do with this

Options the data surfaces for Marketing Managers — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.

Skills that travel

Capabilities this work builds that are used across many other occupations.

Paths in

How people typically prepare for this work.

Zoom out

On the global GenAI exposure gradient this work sits around the 78th percentile of 427 international occupations.

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Marketing Managers show 81st-percentile AI task overlap — and about 34,300 annual U.S. openings

  • Marketing Managers rank in the 81st percentile (High band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated.Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE
  • The occupation is projected to see about 34,300 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • BLS projects employment to be about average (+6.6%) from 2024 to 2034.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • Median annual pay is $161,030, across about 384,980 U.S. workers.BLS OEWS (May 2024)
  • Of the AI use actually observed for this work, 63% looks like augmentation (drafting, iterating, checking) rather than hands-off automation — from a Claude.ai usage sample, not a census.2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2
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Marketing Managers show 81st-percentile AI task overlap — and about 34,300 annual U.S. openings

• Marketing Managers rank in the 81st percentile (High band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated. (Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE)
• The occupation is projected to see about 34,300 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• BLS projects employment to be about average (+6.6%) from 2024 to 2034. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• Median annual pay is $161,030, across about 384,980 U.S. workers. (BLS OEWS (May 2024))
• Of the AI use actually observed for this work, 63% looks like augmentation (drafting, iterating, checking) rather than hands-off automation — from a Claude.ai usage sample, not a census. (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2)

Source: Singulariki — "Marketing Managers". https://singulariki.com/roles/role-11-2021-00
Note: AI task overlap measures what today's AI can attempt, not automation, job loss, or a forecast.

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Singulariki. "Marketing Managers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-11-2021-00

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@misc{singulariki-role-11-2021-00,
  title  = {Marketing Managers},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/roles/role-11-2021-00}
}

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