“prototypes”
Appeared in 45% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (39 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 48% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“prototypes” 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 48% · 24 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 | 1066 |
| Product Designer | 471 |
| UX Designer | 318 |
| Staff Product Designer | 283 |
| Design Lead | 158 |
| Design Engineer | 152 |
| AI Product Designer | 98 |
| Principal Product Designer | 94 |
| Junior Product Designer | 37 |
| Growth Designer | 32 |
| Associate Product Designer | 20 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 16 |
| UX Researcher | 11 |
| Design Director | 11 |
| Product Design Manager | 6 |
| Head of Design | 4 |
| Brand Designer | 2 |
| Content Designer | 1 |
| UX Writer | 1 |
Roles where “prototypes” 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.
- Junior Product Designer64% · 29 of 45 listings · 47 mentions
- UX Designer60% · 212 of 356 listings · 323 mentions
- Product Designer50% · 352 of 704 listings · 494 mentions
- AI Product Designer48% · 59 of 123 listings · 99 mentions
- Senior Product Designer46% · 762 of 1,657 listings · 1,092 mentions
- Principal Product Designer42% · 80 of 192 listings · 99 mentions
- Design Lead41% · 106 of 256 listings · 165 mentions
- Associate Product Designer40% · 14 of 35 listings · 21 mentions
- Growth Designer36% · 29 of 80 listings · 37 mentions
- Staff Product Designer32% · 217 of 687 listings · 305 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.