“candidates”
Appeared in 49% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (42 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 57% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“candidates” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 57% · 28 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Senior Product Designer | 810 |
| Staff Product Designer | 475 |
| Design Engineer | 435 |
| Product Designer | 342 |
| UX Researcher | 224 |
| Design Lead | 166 |
| Principal Product Designer | 107 |
| UX Designer | 101 |
| AI Product Designer | 57 |
| Content Designer | 56 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 44 |
| Growth Designer | 39 |
| UX Writer | 31 |
| Associate Product Designer | 28 |
| Product Design Manager | 23 |
| Brand Designer | 17 |
| Junior Product Designer | 17 |
| Design Director | 10 |
| Head of Design | 4 |
Roles where “candidates” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- Product Design Manager59% · 26 of 44 listings · 38 mentions
- UX Researcher57% · 118 of 208 listings · 279 mentions
- Staff Product Designer53% · 365 of 687 listings · 533 mentions
- Design Director53% · 30 of 57 listings · 41 mentions
- Design Lead49% · 126 of 256 listings · 172 mentions
- Principal Product Designer46% · 88 of 192 listings · 114 mentions
- UX Writer45% · 29 of 65 listings · 34 mentions
- Associate Product Designer43% · 15 of 35 listings · 32 mentions
- Content Designer42% · 45 of 107 listings · 70 mentions
- Growth Designer39% · 31 of 80 listings · 52 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.