“problem”
Appeared in 42% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (36 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 46% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“problem” 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 46% · 25 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 | 1052 |
| Staff Product Designer | 379 |
| Design Engineer | 325 |
| Product Designer | 301 |
| Principal Product Designer | 117 |
| Design Lead | 113 |
| UX Designer | 110 |
| AI Product Designer | 61 |
| Growth Designer | 19 |
| Content Designer | 19 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 19 |
| Junior Product Designer | 19 |
| UX Researcher | 17 |
| Product Design Manager | 13 |
| Associate Product Designer | 12 |
| Brand Designer | 4 |
| UX Writer | 4 |
| Design Director | 3 |
| Head of Design | 3 |
Roles where “problem” 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.
- Senior Product Designer44% · 724 of 1,657 listings · 1,084 mentions
- Product Design Manager41% · 18 of 44 listings · 22 mentions
- Principal Product Designer40% · 77 of 192 listings · 123 mentions
- Staff Product Designer38% · 259 of 687 listings · 404 mentions
- Junior Product Designer36% · 16 of 45 listings · 26 mentions
- Design Lead35% · 89 of 256 listings · 116 mentions
- Design Engineer34% · 252 of 731 listings · 337 mentions
- AI Product Designer33% · 41 of 123 listings · 62 mentions
- Product Designer31% · 221 of 704 listings · 312 mentions
- UX Designer27% · 95 of 356 listings · 112 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.