NYC Has 97 Open Product Designer Roles. Remote Has 210.

I run Employbl, and this week I counted every active product designer listing across the 90,150 ATS-verified jobs we track. New York City has 97 open product designer roles right now. San Francisco has 139. Remote has 210 — the largest pool of all, and a third of the entire market.

If you searched "senior product designer jobs new york" to get here, the NYC number still matters — the companies actually hiring in the city are listed below. But the bigger finding is this: the largest market available to a designer sitting in Brooklyn isn't in Manhattan. It's remote, and it doesn't care where you live.

One scoping note before the numbers: Employbl's index covers companies that hire through Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby — a startup- and scaleup-heavy slice of tech. Big Tech internal career boards and LinkedIn-only employers aren't in these counts, and open listings measure hiring appetite right now, not team size.

The "New York designer market" is really three markets

Across the 25,000+ companies we track, there are 623 active product designer listings today. 254 of them — 41% — carry a Senior title, so senior designers aren't competing in a niche; they're the largest single slice of the market. Geographically, the roles split like this:

• New York (office or hybrid): 97 active product designer roles
• San Francisco (office or hybrid): 139 active roles — 43% more than New York
• Remote: 210 active roles — 34% of the entire product designer market

Most New York designers run their search with a NYC location filter and treat everything else as noise. The data says that filter is the single most expensive setting in their search: it removes 210 remote roles — more than twice the local pool — before they've read a single job description. It also hides the San Francisco market, which at 139 roles is meaningfully deeper than New York's. New York is a strong design market. It is not most of your market.

Why remote leads: two readings and what they share

The honest answer is that I can see the split in the data but not the cause, so treat these as hypotheses:

• Reading one: design work went Figma-native and async over the last cycle. The deliverables — files, prototypes, design systems — port cleanly across time zones, so companies quietly stopped paying the office premium for design before they stopped paying it for other functions.
• Reading two, the counter: some "remote" listings are multi-metro reqs aggregated under one label. If a company would happily seat that designer in New York, then 210 overcounts remote as a truly distinct market — and the effective NYC pool is somewhat bigger than 97.

Both readings share one implication: a Brooklyn designer now competes nationally for a large share of their market. That may be compressing New York's salary premium — but that's a hypothesis I can't prove from our data, because only 2.2% of these listings post a range at all.

Which companies are hiring product designers in New York right now?

These are the companies with the most active product designer listings located in New York as of July 16, 2026, from a direct query of our jobs dataset:

• Figma — 6 open product designer roles
• Headway — 4

• Robinhood — 4
• Tandem — 4
• Datadog — 3
• Mercury — 3
• Harvey — 3
• Bubble — 3

Read that list for the pattern, not just the names. It isn't big-tech design orgs — it's design-led product companies (Figma, Bubble), fintech (Robinhood, Mercury), healthcare infrastructure (Headway), and legal AI (Harvey). New York design hiring in mid-2026 is concentrated at companies where design is the product's competitive edge, not a support function. That's good news for senior candidates: these are teams that pay for craft — and worth your time to vet properly.

Design has a salary-transparency problem

The second finding surprised me more than the geography. Of the 623 active product designer listings, exactly 14 post a salary range. That's 2.2%. Design as a discipline has spent a decade arguing for transparency and honest interfaces — and 97.8% of the companies hiring designers won't tell you what the job pays.

Where a range is posted, the average runs $121,273 to $155,000. Treat that as a reference point, not a market rate — fourteen listings is far too small a sample to price a senior role in New York or San Francisco, where total compensation typically sits above a national posted average. But it's the only public signal this market gives, so you should know it exists and how thin it is.

If you're a designer in New York, run the search in three lanes

Employbl is built for pointed job hunting — the targeted, selective search you run while you still have a job. For a New York designer, this data suggests a specific structure:

• Lane one: the 97 NYC roles. That's a small enough pool to vet company by company — funding, team, where design sits in the org — instead of mass-applying. The eight companies above account for 30 of them.
• Lane two: the 210 remote roles. This is the lane most NYC designers never open, and it's the deepest one. Every remote listing is in your market, and you keep your NYC network and rate expectations.
• Lane three: compensation research. With 2.2% of listings posting a range, the listing won't tell you the number — the company's funding stage, headcount, and recent raises will get you closer. Vet before you apply.

Run all three lanes and a New York designer is looking at roughly 307 directly relevant roles — more than triple what a NYC-only filter shows.

Methodology

All numbers come from Employbl's live jobs dataset: 90,150 active, ATS-verified listings pulled directly from company career boards on Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby as of July 16, 2026, across 25,000+ tracked companies. "Product designer" counts match active listings whose titles contain that phrase; city counts use the structured location data attached to each listing (New York / New York City), so hybrid roles count under their listed city and listings without structured location data aren't in the city totals. Salary figures cover only the 14 listings that publish a range — the $121,273–$155,000 average is a small-sample reference, not a market benchmark. The NYC company leaderboard comes from a direct query of the same dataset on the same date.

Browse the companies hiring in New York or the full set of product designer listings on Employbl — funding, tech stack, and team on every company profile, so you can vet a design org before you spend an evening on the application.