“leader”
Appeared in 13% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (11 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 22% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“leader” 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 22% · 16 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 | 218 |
| Staff Product Designer | 209 |
| Design Engineer | 124 |
| Product Designer | 58 |
| Design Lead | 58 |
| Principal Product Designer | 53 |
| AI Product Designer | 23 |
| UX Designer | 18 |
| UX Researcher | 17 |
| Content Designer | 13 |
| Product Design Manager | 11 |
| Head of Design | 10 |
| Design Director | 10 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 7 |
| Junior Product Designer | 6 |
| UX Writer | 6 |
| Associate Product Designer | 3 |
| Growth Designer | 2 |
Roles where “leader” 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 Director58% · 33 of 57 listings · 42 mentions
- Staff Product Designer28% · 189 of 687 listings · 226 mentions
- Principal Product Designer26% · 49 of 192 listings · 53 mentions
- Product Design Manager25% · 11 of 44 listings · 14 mentions
- Design Lead19% · 48 of 256 listings · 62 mentions
- Junior Product Designer16% · 7 of 45 listings · 7 mentions
- AI Product Designer15% · 19 of 123 listings · 23 mentions
- Design Engineer14% · 101 of 731 listings · 128 mentions
- Content Designer13% · 14 of 107 listings · 15 mentions
- UX Researcher13% · 27 of 208 listings · 29 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.