“employees”
Appeared in 41% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (35 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 56% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“employees” 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 56% · 37 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 | 1276 |
| Design Engineer | 731 |
| Staff Product Designer | 543 |
| Product Designer | 394 |
| Design Lead | 274 |
| UX Designer | 202 |
| Principal Product Designer | 192 |
| Content Designer | 128 |
| AI Product Designer | 126 |
| Growth Designer | 93 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 74 |
| UX Writer | 40 |
| UX Researcher | 31 |
| Product Design Manager | 28 |
| Design Director | 23 |
| Associate Product Designer | 20 |
| Brand Designer | 18 |
| Junior Product Designer | 15 |
| Head of Design | 9 |
Roles where “employees” 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.
- Design Director63% · 36 of 57 listings · 83 mentions
- Associate Product Designer63% · 22 of 35 listings · 50 mentions
- Growth Designer61% · 49 of 80 listings · 128 mentions
- Principal Product Designer55% · 106 of 192 listings · 206 mentions
- Content Designer53% · 57 of 107 listings · 145 mentions
- Design Engineer52% · 383 of 731 listings · 741 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer52% · 48 of 92 listings · 86 mentions
- Design Lead48% · 123 of 256 listings · 289 mentions
- Staff Product Designer48% · 329 of 687 listings · 633 mentions
- Product Design Manager45% · 20 of 44 listings · 44 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.