“leading”
Appeared in 37% of designer job listings the week of 2026-10-26 (220 of 595 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 20 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 52% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“leading” 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 52% · 1 week hidden (corpus < 20 listings) · 38 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 | 789 |
| Staff Product Designer | 408 |
| Design Engineer | 319 |
| Product Designer | 210 |
| Design Lead | 206 |
| Principal Product Designer | 147 |
| UX Designer | 118 |
| UX Researcher | 104 |
| AI Product Designer | 49 |
| UX Writer | 37 |
| Product Design Manager | 37 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 36 |
| Content Designer | 33 |
| Growth Designer | 23 |
| Design Director | 18 |
| Head of Design | 17 |
| Brand Designer | 13 |
| Associate Product Designer | 11 |
| Junior Product Designer | 6 |
Roles where “leading” 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.
- Product Design Manager66% · 29 of 44 listings · 60 mentions
- Design Director65% · 37 of 57 listings · 57 mentions
- UX Researcher58% · 120 of 208 listings · 149 mentions
- Associate Product Designer54% · 19 of 35 listings · 42 mentions
- Design Lead52% · 132 of 254 listings · 219 mentions
- Principal Product Designer52% · 99 of 191 listings · 152 mentions
- Staff Product Designer49% · 337 of 683 listings · 459 mentions
- UX Writer46% · 30 of 65 listings · 38 mentions
- Design Engineer37% · 267 of 724 listings · 328 mentions
- AI Product Designer36% · 44 of 123 listings · 50 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.