“direction”

Appeared in 28% of designer job listings the week of 2026-10-26 (151 of 534 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 20 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 33% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“direction” prevalence in designer JDs, by week

2026-04-13 → 2026-10-26

% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 20 collected weeks · peak 33% · 29 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

20%147/743

2026-04-20

13%8/61

2026-04-27

17%26/152

2026-05-04

15%19/129

2026-05-11

11%12/110

2026-05-18

22%8/36

2026-05-25

7.5%9/120

2026-06-01

16%32/196

2026-06-08

16%26/166

2026-06-15

16%37/234

2026-06-22

24%5/21

2026-06-29

27%85/319

2026-07-06

19%53/283

2026-07-13

23%81/349

2026-07-20

17%20/117

2026-07-27

no data collected · 9 weeks, Jul 27 – Sep 27

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2026-09-28

26%82/310

2026-10-05

27%110/411

2026-10-12

29%158/554

2026-10-19

33%197/591

2026-10-26

28%151/534

Where the conversation happens

Roles mentioning “direction” by week. Stack ordered inside-out; thicker bands = higher mention counts. Hatched: no data collected, so the river breaks instead of dropping to zero.

Senior Product DesignerStaff Product DesignerPrincipal Product DesignerProduct DesignerDesign LeadDesign EngineerAI Product DesignerUX DesignerOther roles

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Role	Total mentions
Senior Product Designer	528
Staff Product Designer	416
Principal Product Designer	209
Product Designer	180
Design Lead	132
Design Engineer	66
AI Product Designer	51
UX Designer	50
Product Design Manager	35
Design Director	30
Growth Designer	25
UX Writer	21
Brand Designer	19
Content Designer	17
Design Systems Engineer	15
Head of Design	14
Junior Product Designer	10
UX Researcher	9
Associate Product Designer	2

Roles where “direction” 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 Designer64% · 121 of 190 listings · 221 mentions
Product Design Manager59% · 26 of 44 listings · 45 mentions
Design Director58% · 33 of 57 listings · 84 mentions
Brand Designer45% · 37 of 83 listings · 57 mentions
Staff Product Designer42% · 286 of 682 listings · 489 mentions
Design Lead35% · 88 of 252 listings · 144 mentions
Growth Designer29% · 23 of 80 listings · 34 mentions
AI Product Designer27% · 33 of 122 listings · 51 mentions
Senior Product Designer27% · 431 of 1,626 listings · 566 mentions
Content Designer23% · 24 of 105 listings · 30 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.