Product Manager Salaries – Ukraine Q4 2025

Time to wrap it up. In our previous articles we talked about the key aspects of the Ukrainian product manager talent pool, the way the talent demand is structured on the Ukrainian market.

This time, we are looking at the money side of things – the salaries. Also known as the thing everyone wants to know about for free. You know many Bothans died for this info, right?

And it’s a doozy. Buckle up!

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Product Manager Ukraine Q4 2025 Salary Breakdown

Junior Product Manager

Entry-level Product Managers are things of beauty if you dig critical theory and Frankfurt School. But we’re here to talk about the money, so I’m not going to elaborate.

• There can be no better way to illustrate a thankless exploitative job as well as junior product manager salary dynamics.

Overall, the salary dynamics looks like this:

• 20% range expansion compared to Q4 2024.
• Average minimum level decrease by 30%;
• Average maximum level increased by astoundingly staggering 10%
• The range comfortably rolls between $500 (yeah, wanna know why?) and $1500 monthly figures.

So why so low when it’s an important job?

• Well, being a product manager is an important job. Junior product managers are not though. Juniors mostly stick to menial tasks on large scale projects. Sometimes they get around doing some actual work.
• The range is littered on the lower end and relatively sparse at the higher end. The source distribution is clearly leaning towards the lower end.
• The salary changes over time are mostly due to changing job and not because of salary reviews. That’s the reality of being a junior product manager in the Ukrainian Tech Segment.

This is even more ridiculous because junior Product Manager doesn’t even mean being Junior specialist at all.

• There are literally no clear Product Managers around.
• All of them are switchers from elsewhere.
• We’ve talked about it already. But nevertheless – junior Product Managers get a junior treatment even though their actual experience usually exceeds the junior definition.

In addition, these positions are virtually non-existent on leaner startups with smaller teams. Their vision of a junior product manager is basically a middle-level product manager who acts like a master’s apprentice.

Middle Product Manager

There are several ways of looking at Middle Product Managers.

• The big corporate way means these guys do menial labor of product management. Basically assist product managers.
• The startup way means the middle PM operates a specific aspect of the product management operation. For example, handling analytics. It can mean all sorts of things because the workflow is flexible and inherently fluid.

But because of that division – there are basically two separate salary ranges for middle product managers.

Let’s look at them both side by side:

• Corporate

• 15% range decrease compared to last year.
• 5% average minimum growth during 2025 (rolling on floor laughing).
• 20% average maximum salary level decrease (i mean it’s all right, i guess, could’ve been worse).
• The salary range revolves around $1200 and $2800 average figures.

• Startup

• 10% overall growth compared to 2024.
• 20% average minimum growth during 2025.
• 15% average maximum salary level growth during the year.
• The salary range revolves around $1500 and $3200 average figures.
• But there’s a catch – the employment longevity is barely a thing.

Senior Product Manager

Senior grade is where the talent demand is and that’s where expectations and counterintuitiveness kicks in like coke rush.

Unlike junior and middles, whose salary ranges are best described by words “dour” and “languid” – the word that best describes senior product manager salaries is “intense”.

Senior Product Managers are in demand. Everybody wants some. In some cases, companies will even throw some money around. And then get buyer’s remorse. Or not. It depends. You never know. That’s not the point. It’s complicated.

The salary dynamics over the course 2025 going into Q1 2026 look something like this:

• 35% average minimum growth.
  • 45% in case of AI startups or some enterprise leviathans.
• 45% average maximum growth during 2025
  • AI startups go all the way to 60%.
  • Corporate-backed startup average maximum range went up 35%.
• The overall salary range shifted solid 30% from where it was last year.
• The average figures shake, rattle and roll between $3000 on the lower end and up to $5500 at the higher end.
  • Hotshot hype beasts can get $6000 and then get fired because this ain’t worth it.

Lead Product Managers

Do you like tripping? Well, companies who hire lead product managers are definitely tripping because these salaries are weird.

Researching lead product manager salaries is confusing.

• a gigantic chunk of the segment are corporate positions on some large scale projects and some game dev labor camps. So there’s a built-in 70% difference between the niches.
• That’s a lot for this level of competence. But lead product managers come in many shades and not all of them are equal.

The overall salary dynamics for lead product managers look something like this:

• The average minimum growth is 40%.
  • 55% in case of AI-adjacent startups that go big or go home.
  • 45% if it is an AI-fueled enterprise SaaS thingie.
• The average maximum growth is 35%.
  • It’s 45% for AI startups or 40% for AI SaaS that got sass.
• The overall salary range change is 50% in the upwards trajectory compared to this period during 2024.
• The employment longevity is slightly short – the percentage of respondents who changed jobs or looking for a job since last year had increased by 15%. Not a lot but it probably says a lot about talent demand.

And if you want more insights into product manager salary dynamics and its other aspects – you can contact us and we will arrange a call to discuss it individually in more detail. Take care!