“problems”
Appeared in 44% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (38 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 46% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“problems” 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% · 29 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 | 1233 |
| Staff Product Designer | 545 |
| Product Designer | 392 |
| Design Engineer | 230 |
| Design Lead | 153 |
| Principal Product Designer | 143 |
| UX Designer | 105 |
| AI Product Designer | 56 |
| Content Designer | 40 |
| Growth Designer | 37 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 29 |
| UX Researcher | 19 |
| UX Writer | 17 |
| Associate Product Designer | 14 |
| Product Design Manager | 13 |
| Junior Product Designer | 10 |
| Brand Designer | 6 |
| Design Director | 5 |
Roles where “problems” 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.
- Staff Product Designer54% · 372 of 687 listings · 593 mentions
- Senior Product Designer47% · 786 of 1,657 listings · 1,287 mentions
- Product Design Manager45% · 20 of 44 listings · 26 mentions
- Principal Product Designer45% · 86 of 192 listings · 153 mentions
- Growth Designer41% · 33 of 80 listings · 47 mentions
- Design Lead39% · 101 of 256 listings · 160 mentions
- Product Designer39% · 272 of 704 listings · 416 mentions
- Associate Product Designer37% · 13 of 35 listings · 18 mentions
- Content Designer34% · 36 of 107 listings · 53 mentions
- AI Product Designer33% · 41 of 123 listings · 56 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.