“mechanical”
Appeared in 6.4% of designer job listings the week of 2026-10-26 (38 of 595 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 19 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 20% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“mechanical” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-10-26% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 19 collected weeks · peak 20% · 1 week hidden (corpus < 20 listings) · 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Design Engineer | 941 |
| Senior Product Designer | 15 |
| Product Designer | 7 |
| Design Lead | 5 |
| Product Design Manager | 3 |
| UX Researcher | 2 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 2 |
| Staff Product Designer | 1 |
Roles where “mechanical” 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 Engineer50% · 365 of 724 listings · 989 mentions
- Product Design Manager4.5% · 2 of 44 listings · 3 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer2.2% · 2 of 91 listings · 2 mentions
- Design Lead1.2% · 3 of 254 listings · 6 mentions
- UX Researcher1.0% · 2 of 208 listings · 2 mentions
- Product Designer0.9% · 6 of 695 listings · 7 mentions
- Staff Product Designer0.1% · 1 of 683 listings · 1 mentions
- Senior Product Designer0.1% · 2 of 1,634 listings · 15 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.