“minimal”

Appeared in 4.7% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (4 of 86 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 9.5% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“minimal” 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 9.5% · 10 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

3.4%25/743

2026-04-20

4.9%3/61

2026-04-27

2.6%4/152

2026-05-04

1.6%2/129

2026-05-11

3.6%4/110

2026-05-18

2.8%1/36

2026-05-25

2.5%3/120

2026-06-01

3.1%6/196

2026-06-08

3.6%6/166

2026-06-15

3.8%9/234

2026-06-22

9.5%2/21

2026-06-29

3.5%11/318

2026-07-06

6.0%17/283

2026-07-13

3.4%12/348

2026-07-20

1.7%2/117

2026-07-27

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

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2026-09-28

5.8%18/310

2026-10-05

3.0%11/365

2026-10-12

4.2%23/547

2026-10-19

5.1%30/590

2026-10-26

2.7%16/589

2026-11-02

4.7%4/86

Where the conversation happens

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

Design EngineerSenior Product DesignerStaff Product DesignerDesign LeadProduct DesignerAI Product DesignerPrincipal Product DesignerUX ResearcherOther roles

View as table

Role	Total mentions
Design Engineer	85
Senior Product Designer	50
Staff Product Designer	21
Design Lead	20
Product Designer	17
AI Product Designer	8
Principal Product Designer	7
UX Researcher	5
UX Designer	5
UX Writer	4
Brand Designer	2
Design Generalist	2
Junior Product Designer	2
Design Systems Engineer	1
Content Designer	1

Roles where “minimal” 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.

Associate Product Designer17% · 6 of 35 listings · 6 mentions
Design Engineer8.9% · 65 of 731 listings · 87 mentions
Junior Product Designer6.7% · 3 of 45 listings · 3 mentions
AI Product Designer6.5% · 8 of 123 listings · 8 mentions
Design Lead6.3% · 16 of 256 listings · 20 mentions
UX Writer6.2% · 4 of 65 listings · 4 mentions
UX Researcher3.8% · 8 of 208 listings · 8 mentions
Principal Product Designer3.6% · 7 of 192 listings · 7 mentions
Brand Designer3.6% · 3 of 83 listings · 3 mentions
Staff Product Designer2.9% · 20 of 687 listings · 21 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.