Research Outline

Product Designers in SF, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York

Goals

To identify the top 10 companies that post the most jobs for marketing and product design in the SF Bay area, Seattle, Greater Los Angeles, and New York City; and the top 5 companies that post the most jobs for marketing and product design in Washington and Boston.

Early Findings

Product Design Jobs

San Francisco
  • According to Indeed, Safeway, Juul Labs, Adobe, Autodesk, Spin, Lyft, and Amazon are some companies that have more than 19 jobs offers in product design. Glasdoor also pointed that Adobe has posted 13 jobs on their website.
  • Data from LinkedIn points that GitHub (30 job posts), Creative Circle (20 job posts), and Workbridge Associates (22 job posts) are the companies that have the most open positions for product designers.
New York
  • According to Amazon, Discovery, Spotify, The New York Times, and Goldman Sachs are some companies that have more than 20 job offers in product design. Glasdoor also pointed that Amazon has posted 11 jobs on their website while Creative Circle has posted 14 jobs.
  • Data on LinkedIn indicates that The New York Times (8 job posts), Creative Circle (18 job posts), Revlon (13 job posts), The Job Network (13 job posts), and VelvetJobs (14 job posts) are the companies that have the most open positions for product designers.
Los Angeles
  • According to Indeed, Northrop Grumman, Albertsons, Moog, Cannoo, Riot Games, IMEG, James Perse, Snapchat, Innex, and Xsolla are some companies that have more than 10 job offers in product design. Glasdoor also pointed that IMEG Group has posted 9 jobs on their website.
  • Data on LinkedIn indicates that Creative Circle is the only company that offers more than 10 positions for product designers on their platform.
Seattle
  • According to LinkedIn, the companies that offer the most product design job openings are Amazon (142 job openings), Microsoft (23 job openings), and Facebook (12 job openings).
  • In Indeed, the companies that offer the most product design job openings in Seattle are Amazon (682 job openings), Microsoft (176 job openings), Fresh Consulting (96 job openings), Safeway (60 job openings), and Facebook (37 job openings).

Based on our findings, we can clearly conclude that Amazon, Microsoft, Fresh Consulting, Facebook, Safeway, Creative Circle, Adobe, Juul Labs, Discovery, Spotify, The New York Times, and Goldman Sachs are the biggest employers of product designers.