“real”

Appeared in 43% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (37 of 86 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 47% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“real” 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 47% · 32 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

22%163/743

2026-04-20

15%9/61

2026-04-27

28%42/152

2026-05-04

24%31/129

2026-05-11

27%30/110

2026-05-18

28%10/36

2026-05-25

26%31/120

2026-06-01

39%76/196

2026-06-08

29%48/166

2026-06-15

24%56/234

2026-06-22

29%6/21

2026-06-29

47%151/318

2026-07-06

31%88/283

2026-07-13

40%139/348

2026-07-20

35%41/117

2026-07-27

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

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2026-09-28

36%112/310

2026-10-05

32%118/365

2026-10-12

40%217/547

2026-10-19

38%223/590

2026-10-26

41%243/589

2026-11-02

43%37/86

Where the conversation happens

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

Senior Product DesignerStaff Product DesignerProduct DesignerDesign EngineerDesign LeadPrincipal Product DesignerAI Product DesignerUX DesignerOther roles

View as table

Role	Total mentions
Senior Product Designer	1246
Staff Product Designer	596
Product Designer	536
Design Engineer	205
Design Lead	203
Principal Product Designer	151
AI Product Designer	139
UX Designer	128
Growth Designer	93
Design Systems Engineer	57
Content Designer	26
Junior Product Designer	26
Brand Designer	21
Associate Product Designer	16
UX Researcher	16
Design Director	14
UX Writer	12
Product Design Manager	12
Head of Design	5
Design Generalist	2

Roles where “real” 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.

Growth Designer56% · 45 of 80 listings · 104 mentions
Associate Product Designer54% · 19 of 35 listings · 25 mentions
Staff Product Designer47% · 323 of 687 listings · 661 mentions
AI Product Designer46% · 57 of 123 listings · 154 mentions
Design Lead45% · 114 of 256 listings · 216 mentions
Principal Product Designer42% · 80 of 192 listings · 160 mentions
Design Systems Engineer41% · 38 of 92 listings · 59 mentions
Senior Product Designer41% · 683 of 1,657 listings · 1,303 mentions
Product Designer41% · 289 of 704 listings · 555 mentions
Junior Product Designer38% · 17 of 45 listings · 35 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.