“define”
Appeared in 36% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (31 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 48% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“define” 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 48% · 41 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 | 990 |
| Staff Product Designer | 483 |
| Product Designer | 338 |
| Design Lead | 194 |
| Principal Product Designer | 186 |
| Design Engineer | 100 |
| AI Product Designer | 91 |
| UX Designer | 86 |
| UX Researcher | 79 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 57 |
| Growth Designer | 49 |
| Content Designer | 43 |
| UX Writer | 33 |
| Design Director | 19 |
| Product Design Manager | 14 |
| Brand Designer | 10 |
| Head of Design | 6 |
| Junior Product Designer | 4 |
| Associate Product Designer | 4 |
Roles where “define” 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.
- Principal Product Designer60% · 116 of 192 listings · 198 mentions
- Staff Product Designer56% · 388 of 687 listings · 574 mentions
- AI Product Designer54% · 67 of 123 listings · 95 mentions
- Growth Designer51% · 41 of 80 listings · 63 mentions
- Design Lead51% · 130 of 256 listings · 201 mentions
- UX Researcher50% · 105 of 208 listings · 111 mentions
- Product Design Manager48% · 21 of 44 listings · 32 mentions
- Senior Product Designer46% · 770 of 1,657 listings · 1,048 mentions
- Design Director46% · 26 of 57 listings · 45 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer42% · 39 of 92 listings · 62 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.