“technical”
Appeared in 53% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (46 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 58% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“technical” 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 58% · 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Design Engineer | 1460 |
| Senior Product Designer | 1325 |
| Product Designer | 519 |
| Staff Product Designer | 439 |
| UX Designer | 273 |
| Design Lead | 223 |
| Principal Product Designer | 205 |
| AI Product Designer | 113 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 78 |
| Content Designer | 54 |
| UX Writer | 43 |
| Product Design Manager | 35 |
| UX Researcher | 25 |
| Growth Designer | 22 |
| Brand Designer | 19 |
| Junior Product Designer | 18 |
| Associate Product Designer | 16 |
| Head of Design | 15 |
| Design Director | 14 |
| Design Generalist | 2 |
Roles where “technical” 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.
- Design Engineer79% · 579 of 731 listings · 1,519 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer54% · 50 of 92 listings · 91 mentions
- Design Director53% · 30 of 57 listings · 38 mentions
- Product Design Manager50% · 22 of 44 listings · 48 mentions
- UX Writer48% · 31 of 65 listings · 43 mentions
- AI Product Designer47% · 58 of 123 listings · 120 mentions
- Principal Product Designer46% · 88 of 192 listings · 215 mentions
- Product Designer44% · 307 of 704 listings · 559 mentions
- Design Lead43% · 111 of 256 listings · 232 mentions
- Senior Product Designer43% · 716 of 1,657 listings · 1,380 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.