Design Drift

Live data on where the product-designer job market is heading — roles, salaries, and the language employers use.

6,019
Active listings
20
Canonical roles
2,322
Companies
100,284
Tracked terms

Every role at a glance

Trend per canonical role over the last 12 weeks of collected data, ranked by current open listings.

Senior Product Designer1657
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Design Engineer731
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Product Designer704
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Staff Product Designer687
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
UX Designer356
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Design Lead256
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
UX Researcher208
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Principal Product Designer192
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
AI Product Designer123
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Content Designer107
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Design Systems Engineer92
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Brand Designer83
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Growth Designer80
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
UX Writer65
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Design Director57
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Junior Product Designer45
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Product Design Manager44
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Associate Product Designer35
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Head of Design17
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Design Generalist3
Jul 27 – Sep 27: no data collectedno data
Weekly listing count per canonical role, weeks of Jun 15 – Nov 2: the last 12 weeks with data collected. Hatched: Jul 27 – Sep 27, when no data was collected. That is a gap in our collection, not a drop in hiring. Click any card to drill in.

Cross-sectional trends

Does remote work pay more? →
Salary midpoints across remote / hybrid / onsite postings — every active listing as a dot.
What skills get you promoted? →
Heatmap of 27 focus skills × 10 designer roles, sorted by seniority slope — which skills actually signal Senior → Staff.
Designer salaries, state by state →
Hexgrid map of US designer pay. Top 5, bottom 5, full distribution from pay-transparency disclosures.
Live salaries by state × role →
Pay-transparency disclosures across 8 states × 12 roles. Median, floor, ceiling — refreshed daily.

Articles

The skills that pay the most →
Ten keywords in designer job descriptions that correlate with the biggest salary premium. Ranked by dollar delta.
Manager or Principal — which pays more? →
Head-to-head on the design career fork. What each listing asks for, and who's winning the comp race right now.
Anatomy of an AI Product Designer →
The fastest-emerging designer title, word-diffed against regular PD. What's actually different, and what's shared baseline craft.

Explore

Ask Design Drift →
Natural-language Q&A over the live data. 'What's the most rising title?' — Claude with tool access to the database.
Word frequency tracker
Every word in every listing, tokenized and counted. Watch what designers are being asked to do.
Senior Product Designer
Live count + median salary + top hirers + recent postings.
AI Product Designer
The emerging title — openings + requirements.
Design Engineer
Where design meets code — salary + skills.
Methodology
How this data is sourced and processed.
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