What Principal Operations Jobs Ask For
Across 120 open Principal Operations postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, sap, automation.
Updated September 19, 2026
174 open Principal Operations postings. The percentages below are measured over the 120 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 31% |
| sap | 21% |
| automation | 18% |
| analytics | 15% |
| performance-management | 14% |
| agentic-ai | 12% |
| cloud | 12% |
| erp | 11% |
| process-improvement | 11% |
| saas | 11% |
| sql | 11% |
| dfars | 10% |
| oracle | 9% |
| business-development | 8% |
| program-management | 8% |
| stakeholder-management | 8% |
| tableau | 8% |
| accounts-payable | 6% |
| cybersecurity | 6% |
| powerbi | 6% |
| six-sigma | 6% |
| apex | 5% |
| data-visualization | 5% |
| networking | 5% |
| vendor-management | 5% |
| agile | 4% |
| ariba | 4% |
| aws | 4% |
| data-science | 4% |
| ecommerce | 4% |
| gdpr | 4% |
| go-to-market | 4% |
| jira | 4% |
| llm | 4% |
| machine-learning | 4% |
| snowflake | 4% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 174 open Principal Operations jobs →
Across all Operations levels
Most Operations postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- ai 6,721
- process-improvement 4,738
- automation 4,570
- analytics 4,099
- stakeholder-management 3,852
- performance-management 3,738
- erp 3,470
- sap 2,853
- vendor-management 2,457
- cloud 2,360
- regulatory-compliance 1,837
- strategic-planning 1,750