Stripe First. The Rest Splits by Design Problem.
Stripe outranks everything else in the queue. Dan Nelson posted the Staff Product Designer, Link role eight days ago, and that kind of post stays visible for about 14 days. Contact him Monday. Behind Stripe, nine signals sorted by the three design problems the market is hiring for right now: AI legibility (Anthropic, Ramp), automation boundaries in regulated verticals (EvolutionIQ, OpenAI), and agent-fleet supervision (Databricks, Amplitude). Two new companies enter the queue, and one prior signal drops out.
Stripe First. The Rest Splits by Design Problem.
Stripe outranks everything else in the queue. Dan Nelson posted the Staff Product Designer, Link role eight days ago, and that kind of post stays visible for about 14 days. Contact him Monday. Behind Stripe, nine signals sorted by the three design problems the market is hiring for right now: AI legibility (Anthropic, Ramp), automation boundaries in regulated verticals (EvolutionIQ, OpenAI), and agent-fleet supervision (Databricks, Amplitude). Two new companies enter the queue, and one prior signal drops out.
The 100 List — Seven Act, Four Retirements, and the Perplexity Window Closes October 15
Seven companies at Act across ten live roles: Databricks, Anthropic (three concurrent searches), OpenAI, Figma, Ramp, Stripe, and Runway. Six of the seven have a confirmed hiring-manager route; Runway doesn't. Perplexity, Airwallex, Babylist, and Customer.io all cross the 43-day decay boundary this week, and Perplexity is the costly one: company score 10/12, AI centrality 3. Twenty-four companies sit at Watch and sixty-nine are parked with named triggers. Six are scored for the first time this cycle: ServiceNow, EvolutionIQ, StackAdapt, Vesta, Healthleap, and Nous Research.
The 100 List — Seven Act, Four Retirements, and the Perplexity Window Closes October 15
Seven companies at Act across ten live roles: Databricks, Anthropic (three concurrent searches), OpenAI, Figma, Ramp, Stripe, and Runway. Six of the seven have a confirmed hiring-manager route; Runway doesn't. Perplexity, Airwallex, Babylist, and Customer.io all cross the 43-day decay boundary this week, and Perplexity is the costly one: company score 10/12, AI centrality 3. Twenty-four companies sit at Watch and sixty-nine are parked with named triggers. Six are scored for the first time this cycle: ServiceNow, EvolutionIQ, StackAdapt, Vesta, Healthleap, and Nous Research.
Signal Watch: Six Agentic Roles, Three Different Control Layers
Six companies posted agentic design roles this cycle, and all six use the word "agentic," which tells you almost nothing about the design problem. What separates them is the control layer the designer owns: generation infrastructure, domain control policy, or orchestration. Your proof concentrates at the two layers closest to the user, and that concentration is what moves the scores. Four companies hit Act outright, including a regulated-vertical role where your CarrierIQ citation-chain work is direct structural proof. Anthropic's three-role cluster splits across all three layers, with a different verdict for each.
Signal Watch: Six Agentic Roles, Three Different Control Layers
Six companies posted agentic design roles this cycle, and all six use the word "agentic," which tells you almost nothing about the design problem. What separates them is the control layer the designer owns: generation infrastructure, domain control policy, or orchestration. Your proof concentrates at the two layers closest to the user, and that concentration is what moves the scores. Four companies hit Act outright, including a regulated-vertical role where your CarrierIQ citation-chain work is direct structural proof. Anthropic's three-role cluster splits across all three layers, with a different verdict for each.
