“future”
Appeared in 30% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (26 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 46% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“future” 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 46% · 39 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 | 910 |
| Product Designer | 351 |
| Staff Product Designer | 314 |
| Design Engineer | 266 |
| Design Lead | 179 |
| Principal Product Designer | 106 |
| AI Product Designer | 84 |
| UX Designer | 81 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 63 |
| UX Researcher | 39 |
| Content Designer | 39 |
| Growth Designer | 31 |
| Brand Designer | 20 |
| Associate Product Designer | 16 |
| UX Writer | 15 |
| Product Design Manager | 15 |
| Junior Product Designer | 15 |
| Design Director | 8 |
| Head of Design | 8 |
Roles where “future” 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 Lead50% · 127 of 256 listings · 191 mentions
- Associate Product Designer46% · 16 of 35 listings · 27 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer46% · 42 of 92 listings · 67 mentions
- Principal Product Designer43% · 82 of 192 listings · 116 mentions
- AI Product Designer41% · 51 of 123 listings · 87 mentions
- Staff Product Designer41% · 279 of 687 listings · 368 mentions
- Design Director40% · 23 of 57 listings · 60 mentions
- Senior Product Designer38% · 631 of 1,657 listings · 991 mentions
- Growth Designer38% · 30 of 80 listings · 39 mentions
- Product Designer36% · 254 of 704 listings · 395 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.