UXD.careers

UXD Market Pulse

What design teams are hiring for now.

A living view of the UXD.careers dataset—roles, compensation, workplace patterns, and the signals that may shape what designers work on next.

Updated daily · November 2, 2026275 opportunities analyzed63 currently open
Remote roles72%

198 of 275 opportunities

Average salary$199,000

Annual USD range midpoint

Median salary$190,000

Across 226 disclosed USD salaries

Top categoryProduct Design

205 opportunities

Opportunity mix

What kind of work?

Share of all roles
Product Design205 · 75%
Design Leadership32 · 12%
Design Systems15 · 5%
UX Research12 · 4%
UX Design8 · 3%
UX Writing / Content Design2 · 1%
Other UX1 · 0%

Workplace

Where the work happens

275 roles

Skills & domains

Popular topics

Mentions by role
  1. 01
    AI & machine learning
    118
  2. 02
    Enterprise & B2B
    114
  3. 03
    Design systems
    53
  4. 04
    Mobile products
    37
  5. 05
    Fintech & payments
    35
  6. 06
    Health & wellbeing
    32
  7. 07
    Accessibility
    26
  8. 08
    Growth & conversion
    19

Role families

Popular job titles

Normalized titles
  1. 01
    Product designer
    224
  2. 02
    Design systems designer
    13
  3. 03
    UX researcher
    12
  4. 04
    Design leadership
    12
  5. 05
    Other design roles
    7
  6. 06
    UX designer
    3
  7. 07
    Content designer
    2
  8. 08
    UI/UX designer
    2

Future outlook

Signals hiding in the job descriptions.

Job posts often reveal a company’s roadmap before the product reaches the public. These are evidence-led interpretations of recurring language in our dataset—not promises or financial forecasts.

01

AI products are moving toward younger audiences

AI and youth or education language appears together in 3 roles. That points to a near-term need for designers who can make intelligent products understandable, safe, and age-appropriate.

Signals include Senior Product Designer at CodePath; Product Designer, Youth at OpenAI.
02

AI fluency is becoming a core product-design skill

118 roles mention AI or machine learning. The next wave of UX work is likely to focus less on chat boxes alone and more on confidence, control, explainability, and human review inside everyday workflows.

Signals include Staff Product Designer, Agentic CMS at Webflow; Senior Product Designer at CompanyCam.
03

Design systems are becoming product infrastructure

53 roles reference systems, component libraries, or tokens. Teams appear to be hiring for scalable decision-making across products—not only reusable UI—so governance and cross-functional influence will matter more.

Signals include Senior Product Designer at CompanyCam; Staff Product Designer at ButterflyMX.
04

Trust will be designed into high-stakes journeys

80 roles carry signals from health, finance, privacy, security, or safety. As intelligent products enter sensitive domains, evidence, consent, recovery paths, and clear consequences will become differentiating design work.

Signals include Senior Product Designer, Search Results at Headway; Staff Product Designer at Twin Health.

How to read this

Methodology

Analysis includes published, expired, and filled opportunities in the UXD.careers database. Salary statistics include only clearly annual USD figures and use the midpoint when a range is supplied; hourly and non-USD compensation is excluded. Topics are counted once per role through title and description keyword matching. Title families normalize seniority and minor wording differences. Because this is a curated dataset—not the entire labor market—use these numbers as directional signals.

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