“researcher”

Appeared in 1.2% of designer job listings the week of 2026-10-26 (7 of 589 postings).

First tracked 2026-04-13 · 17 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 14% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27

“researcher” prevalence in designer JDs, by week

2026-04-13 → 2026-10-26

% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 17 collected weeks · peak 14% · 12 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%

2026-04-13

9.4%70/743

2026-04-20

3.3%2/61

2026-05-04

0.8%1/129

2026-05-18

2.8%1/36

2026-05-25

2.5%3/120

2026-06-01

3.1%6/196

2026-06-08

1.8%3/166

2026-06-15

14%33/234

2026-06-29

0.6%2/318

2026-07-06

2.8%8/283

2026-07-13

3.4%12/348

2026-07-20

3.4%4/117

2026-07-27

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

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2026-09-28

1.9%6/310

2026-10-05

1.1%4/365

2026-10-12

1.8%10/547

2026-10-19

1.5%9/590

2026-10-26

1.2%7/589

Where the conversation happens

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

UX ResearcherSenior Product DesignerStaff Product DesignerUX DesignerContent DesignerProduct DesignerPrincipal Product DesignerProduct Design ManagerOther roles

View as table

Role	Total mentions
UX Researcher	198
Senior Product Designer	40
Staff Product Designer	23
UX Designer	4
Content Designer	2
Product Designer	2
Principal Product Designer	2
Product Design Manager	1
Design Engineer	1
Design Lead	1

Roles where “researcher” 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 Researcher100% · 207 of 208 listings · 392 mentions
Product Design Manager9.1% · 4 of 44 listings · 4 mentions
Staff Product Designer3.3% · 23 of 687 listings · 23 mentions
Senior Product Designer2.0% · 33 of 1,657 listings · 41 mentions
Content Designer1.9% · 2 of 107 listings · 2 mentions
UX Designer1.1% · 4 of 356 listings · 4 mentions
Principal Product Designer1.0% · 2 of 192 listings · 2 mentions
Design Lead0.8% · 2 of 256 listings · 2 mentions
Product Designer0.7% · 5 of 704 listings · 5 mentions
Design Engineer0.1% · 1 of 731 listings · 1 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.