Design skill
Design Thinking jobs
A structured approach to problems: understand the user, frame the problem, prototype, test. A vocabulary hiring managers screen for in design and product roles. Below: the 3 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Design Thinking unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Product Designer | 536 | salary |
| UX Designer | 256 | salary |
| Industrial Designer | 14 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as Design Thinking.
- Visual Designtogether in 12
- Wireframingtogether in 6
- Interaction Designtogether in 12
- HTML/CSStogether in 10
- User Researchtogether in 7
- Figmatogether in 11
Quick answers
What is Design Thinking?
A structured approach to problems: understand the user, frame the problem, prototype, test. A vocabulary hiring managers screen for in design and product roles. On our board Design Thinking counts as a design skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Design Thinking?
Quite a few. Right now 806 open roles on our board sit in the 3 occupations where Design Thinking shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Product Designer, with 536 open roles today.
What skills pair with Design Thinking?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside Design Thinking are Visual Design (together in 12), Wireframing (together in 6), Interaction Design (together in 12).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.