What Principal Operations Jobs Ask For
Across 84 open Principal Operations postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, analytics, cloud.
Updated October 28, 2026
92 open Principal Operations postings. The percentages below are measured over the 84 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 32% |
| analytics | 19% |
| cloud | 18% |
| sap | 17% |
| erp | 15% |
| oracle | 14% |
| program-management | 14% |
| business-intelligence | 12% |
| data-visualization | 12% |
| sql | 12% |
| automation | 11% |
| root-cause-analysis | 11% |
| business-development | 10% |
| corrective-action | 10% |
| performance-management | 10% |
| powerbi | 10% |
| process-improvement | 10% |
| accounts-payable | 8% |
| go-to-market | 8% |
| saas | 8% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| tableau | 7% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| agile | 6% |
| backbone | 6% |
| data-quality | 6% |
| jira | 6% |
| six-sigma | 6% |
| stakeholder-management | 6% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all Operations levels
Most Operations postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- ai 4,296
- performance-management 3,448
- analytics 2,906
- erp 2,836
- corrective-action 2,794
- automation 2,725
- process-improvement 2,560
- sap 2,132
- stakeholder-management 2,080
- cloud 1,499
- osha 1,493
- ccpa 1,437