Design Drift
Live data on where the product-designer job market is heading — roles, salaries, and the language employers use.
1,405
Active listings
20
Canonical roles
718
Companies
4,969
Tracked terms
Every role at a glance
12-week trend per canonical role, ranked by current open listings.
Senior Product Designer289
UX Researcher155
Staff Product Designer145
Product Designer141
Design Engineer101
UX Designer101
Design Director62
Brand Designer46
Design Lead46
Product Design Manager34
Content Designer32
AI Product Designer32
Principal Product Designer31
Growth Designer24
Junior Product Designer16
Design Systems Engineer11
UX Writer8
Associate Product Designer8
Head of Design7
Design Generalist3
Cross-sectional trends
Does remote work pay more? →
Salary midpoints across remote / hybrid / onsite postings — every active listing as a dot.
What skills get you promoted? →
Heatmap of 27 focus skills × 10 designer roles, sorted by seniority slope — which skills actually signal Senior → Staff.
Designer salaries, state by state →
Hexgrid map of US designer pay. Top 5, bottom 5, full distribution from pay-transparency disclosures.
Live salaries by state × role →
Pay-transparency disclosures across 8 states × 12 roles. Median, floor, ceiling — refreshed daily.
Articles
The skills that pay the most →
Ten keywords in designer job descriptions that correlate with the biggest salary premium. Ranked by dollar delta.
Manager or Principal — which pays more? →
Head-to-head on the design career fork. What each listing asks for, and who's winning the comp race right now.
Anatomy of an AI Product Designer →
The fastest-emerging designer title, word-diffed against regular PD. What's actually different, and what's shared baseline craft.
Explore
Ask Design Drift →
Natural-language Q&A over the live data. 'What's the most rising title?' — Claude with tool access to the database.
Word frequency tracker
Every word in every listing, tokenized and counted. Watch what designers are being asked to do.
Senior Product Designer
Live count + median salary + top hirers + recent postings.
AI Product Designer
The emerging title — openings + requirements.
Design Engineer
Where design meets code — salary + skills.
Methodology
How this data is sourced and processed.