“leadership”
Appeared in 28% of designer job listings the week of 2026-10-26 (78 of 274 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 20 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 36% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“leadership” 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 36% · 23 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 | 531 |
| Staff Product Designer | 381 |
| Principal Product Designer | 220 |
| Design Engineer | 158 |
| Design Lead | 138 |
| Product Designer | 116 |
| UX Designer | 86 |
| UX Researcher | 83 |
| AI Product Designer | 64 |
| Design Director | 35 |
| Product Design Manager | 31 |
| Head of Design | 20 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 16 |
| UX Writer | 15 |
| Growth Designer | 15 |
| Content Designer | 15 |
| Brand Designer | 6 |
| Associate Product Designer | 5 |
| Junior Product Designer | 4 |
Roles where “leadership” 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 Director82% · 45 of 55 listings · 127 mentions
- Principal Product Designer66% · 123 of 187 listings · 224 mentions
- Product Design Manager60% · 25 of 42 listings · 45 mentions
- UX Researcher49% · 100 of 206 listings · 104 mentions
- Staff Product Designer43% · 283 of 659 listings · 416 mentions
- Design Lead39% · 97 of 250 listings · 169 mentions
- AI Product Designer30% · 36 of 120 listings · 66 mentions
- Senior Product Designer27% · 424 of 1,584 listings · 578 mentions
- UX Designer23% · 79 of 340 listings · 101 mentions
- Growth Designer21% · 16 of 76 listings · 18 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.