“early”
Appeared in 29% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (25 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 29% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“early” 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 29% · 33 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 | 572 |
| Product Designer | 276 |
| Staff Product Designer | 217 |
| Design Lead | 85 |
| Design Engineer | 79 |
| Principal Product Designer | 66 |
| UX Designer | 60 |
| AI Product Designer | 58 |
| Growth Designer | 45 |
| Junior Product Designer | 33 |
| Associate Product Designer | 13 |
| Content Designer | 11 |
| Brand Designer | 11 |
| UX Researcher | 11 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 8 |
| UX Writer | 4 |
| Product Design Manager | 3 |
| Head of Design | 3 |
| Design Director | 1 |
Roles where “early” 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.
- Junior Product Designer60% · 27 of 45 listings · 47 mentions
- Associate Product Designer60% · 21 of 35 listings · 29 mentions
- Growth Designer36% · 29 of 80 listings · 51 mentions
- Principal Product Designer29% · 56 of 192 listings · 72 mentions
- Product Designer29% · 202 of 704 listings · 305 mentions
- Senior Product Designer26% · 438 of 1,657 listings · 596 mentions
- Design Lead26% · 66 of 256 listings · 90 mentions
- Staff Product Designer25% · 172 of 687 listings · 249 mentions
- Brand Designer23% · 19 of 83 listings · 22 mentions
- AI Product Designer23% · 28 of 123 listings · 61 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.