“principal”

Appeared in 8.1% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (7 of 86 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 14% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“principal” 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 14% · 7 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

4.4%33/743

2026-04-20

1.6%1/61

2026-04-27

7.2%11/152

2026-05-04

5.4%7/129

2026-05-11

3.6%4/110

2026-05-18

14%5/36

2026-05-25

4.2%5/120

2026-06-01

3.6%7/196

2026-06-08

3.0%5/166

2026-06-15

3.0%7/234

2026-06-22

9.5%2/21

2026-06-29

6.3%20/318

2026-07-06

6.4%18/283

2026-07-13

3.4%12/348

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

5.8%18/310

2026-10-05

7.9%29/365

2026-10-12

6.2%34/547

2026-10-19

6.9%41/590

2026-10-26

5.9%35/589

2026-11-02

8.1%7/86

Where the conversation happens

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

Principal Product DesignerDesign EngineerStaff Product DesignerSenior Product DesignerDesign LeadUX DesignerProduct DesignerUX ResearcherOther roles

View as table

Role	Total mentions
Principal Product Designer	419
Design Engineer	46
Staff Product Designer	38
Senior Product Designer	31
Design Lead	7
UX Designer	7
Product Designer	4
UX Researcher	3
AI Product Designer	3
Design Systems Engineer	3
Associate Product Designer	2
Brand Designer	2
Design Director	2
Product Design Manager	1
Growth Designer	1

Roles where “principal” 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.

Principal Product Designer99% · 191 of 192 listings · 441 mentions
Associate Product Designer5.7% · 2 of 35 listings · 2 mentions
Product Design Manager4.5% · 2 of 44 listings · 2 mentions
Design Engineer3.4% · 25 of 731 listings · 49 mentions
Design Lead2.7% · 7 of 256 listings · 7 mentions
Staff Product Designer2.6% · 18 of 687 listings · 38 mentions
Brand Designer2.4% · 2 of 83 listings · 2 mentions
Design Systems Engineer2.2% · 2 of 92 listings · 3 mentions
Senior Product Designer1.8% · 30 of 1,657 listings · 35 mentions
Design Director1.8% · 1 of 57 listings · 2 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.