Design Drift
Live data on where the product-designer job market is heading — roles, salaries, and the language employers use.
2,027
Active listings
20
Canonical roles
953
Companies
1,003
Tracked terms
Every role at a glance
12-week trend per canonical role, ranked by current open listings.
Senior Product Designer442
Design Engineer259
Product Designer226
Staff Product Designer207
UX Researcher158
UX Designer126
Design Lead63
Brand Designer61
Principal Product Designer43
Design Director43
AI Product Designer38
Content Designer36
Growth Designer31
Product Design Manager22
Design Systems Engineer20
Junior Product Designer17
UX Writer10
Associate Product Designer10
Head of Design8
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.