“manager”

Appeared in 14% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (12 of 86 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 16% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“manager” 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 16% · 15 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

8.9%66/743

2026-04-20

6.6%4/61

2026-04-27

12%18/152

2026-05-04

11%14/129

2026-05-11

14%15/110

2026-05-18

8.3%3/36

2026-05-25

7.5%9/120

2026-06-01

9.2%18/196

2026-06-08

4.8%8/166

2026-06-15

7.3%17/234

2026-06-22

4.8%1/21

2026-06-29

11%34/318

2026-07-06

12%33/283

2026-07-13

8.0%28/348

2026-07-20

7.7%9/117

2026-07-27

no data collected · 9 weeks, Jul 27 – Sep 27

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2026-09-28

16%51/310

2026-10-05

7.1%26/365

2026-10-12

7.9%43/547

2026-10-19

7.8%46/590

2026-10-26

10%61/589

2026-11-02

14%12/86

Where the conversation happens

Roles mentioning “manager” by week. Stack ordered inside-out; thicker bands = higher mention counts. Hatched: no data collected, so the river breaks instead of dropping to zero.

Senior Product DesignerStaff Product DesignerDesign EngineerProduct DesignerProduct Design ManagerDesign LeadPrincipal Product DesignerUX DesignerOther roles

View as table

Role	Total mentions
Senior Product Designer	170
Staff Product Designer	142
Design Engineer	112
Product Designer	73
Product Design Manager	68
Design Lead	44
Principal Product Designer	33
UX Designer	25
Design Director	24
Growth Designer	13
Content Designer	11
AI Product Designer	8
Brand Designer	3
Associate Product Designer	2
UX Researcher	2
Design Systems Engineer	2
UX Writer	2
Junior Product Designer	2

Roles where “manager” 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 Manager100% · 44 of 44 listings · 103 mentions
Design Director49% · 28 of 57 listings · 54 mentions
Growth Designer20% · 16 of 80 listings · 17 mentions
Staff Product Designer14% · 93 of 687 listings · 154 mentions
Principal Product Designer13% · 25 of 192 listings · 33 mentions
Design Lead13% · 33 of 256 listings · 51 mentions
Product Designer9.8% · 69 of 704 listings · 80 mentions
Brand Designer9.6% · 8 of 83 listings · 10 mentions
Content Designer9.3% · 10 of 107 listings · 11 mentions
Design Engineer9.3% · 68 of 731 listings · 113 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.