“research”
Appeared in 65% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (56 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 68% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“research” 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 68% · 38 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 | 3003 |
| UX Researcher | 1537 |
| Product Designer | 1065 |
| Staff Product Designer | 755 |
| UX Designer | 659 |
| Design Lead | 423 |
| Principal Product Designer | 304 |
| Design Engineer | 208 |
| AI Product Designer | 147 |
| Content Designer | 124 |
| Growth Designer | 96 |
| UX Writer | 62 |
| Junior Product Designer | 50 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 46 |
| Product Design Manager | 43 |
| Associate Product Designer | 34 |
| Design Director | 22 |
| Brand Designer | 14 |
| Head of Design | 13 |
Roles where “research” 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.
- UX Researcher84% · 174 of 208 listings · 2,299 mentions
- Associate Product Designer83% · 29 of 35 listings · 60 mentions
- Content Designer75% · 80 of 107 listings · 158 mentions
- Senior Product Designer73% · 1,206 of 1,657 listings · 3,094 mentions
- UX Designer72% · 258 of 356 listings · 692 mentions
- Junior Product Designer69% · 31 of 45 listings · 79 mentions
- Product Designer69% · 484 of 704 listings · 1,159 mentions
- Design Lead68% · 174 of 256 listings · 455 mentions
- Principal Product Designer64% · 123 of 192 listings · 317 mentions
- Staff Product Designer60% · 411 of 687 listings · 819 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.