UX Designer Jobs in Austin, TX

For Austin digital-product work, the clearest local benchmark is BLS's web and digital interface designer category, which showed a $125,830 mean annual wage and $60.49 mean hourly wage in May 2025. For the broader arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media family in Austin, BLS showed a $61,860 median annual wage, a $73,960 mean, and a $119,320 90th-percentile wage in 2025. More current posting-based signals are higher and narrower at the top: sampled Austin design postings centered on about $113k to $163k, while Texas design openings showed a mean offered salary of about $74,642 on new openings and national design openings about $77,095.

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Advertised pay

Across the 223 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $115,000 at the 25th percentile, $159,428 at the median and $199,750 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Austin is still a viable market for Design, Creative & UX, but it is not an easy one right now. Metro unemployment was 3.9% in August 2026, and Austin's Professional and Business Services sector rose 1.9587% year over year, which supports continued demand around agencies, consulting, education, and in-house product teams. The catch is that Austin Information employment fell 5.4902% year over year, the recent sample showed more than 50 design postings across more than 50 companies over the last 90 days, and only about 15% of openings were entry level.

Best positioned: The best odds right now belong to mid-career product or UX designers who can show Figma, design systems, prototyping, and user research work for software, technology, finance, or education employers, where much of the local mix sits and mid-level roles dominate.

Main caution: Do not assume Austin's tech reputation means abundant remote design hiring: about 55% of sampled roles were on-site, about 30% hybrid, and about 15% remote.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 401 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.: 32 open roles
2. Apple, Inc.: 19 open roles
3. Amazon: 14 open roles
4. Jacobs Engineering Group: 9 open roles
5. Amazon Inc.: 8 open roles
6. Expedia, Inc.: 8 open roles
7. RosaicLabs Inc: 7 open roles
8. Google Inc: 6 open roles
9. Intel Corporation: 6 open roles
10. RRC Companies: 6 open roles

Where the openings are

• Austin: 333
• Round Rock: 11
• Cedar Park: 8
• Santa Clara: 6
• Pflugerville: 5
• Sunnyvale: 5
• New York: 3
• Los Angeles: 3

Work arrangement

on-site 285 (72%), hybrid 90 (23%), remote 21 (5%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is spread across many employers rather than concentrated in one or two anchor companies. The recent sample captured more than 50 postings across more than 50 companies, and employer concentration was fragmented, with named activity from Gotech, Amazon, Ashby, MML Hospitality group, University of Texas System, Uthealthcomm, and Ryan Group. That helps if you are willing to run a targeted search across multiple sectors, but it also means there is no single Austin design hiring engine to lean on. The industry mix is led by software development and technology at about 25% each, followed by advertising services, education, and financial services at about 10% each. Seniority skews upward, with about 45% mid-level roles and about 35% senior roles versus about 15% entry, and the work setup is mostly local, with about 55% on-site and about 30% hybrid. In practice, that favors candidates who can show shipped product work, stakeholder management, and comfort collaborating in person. The metro backdrop reinforces the same pattern: Professional and Business Services is growing, while Information is shrinking.

• Software and in-house product design (high): Software development and technology together make up about 50% of the sampled local demand, and the Austin benchmark for web and digital interface designers pays above the broader creative field.
• Education, hospitality, and institutional in-house design (moderate): Education is about 10% of the local mix, and named active employers include University of Texas System and MML Hospitality group, suggesting a real but smaller lane for in-house brand, service, and product-support work.
• Remote-first junior UX/design roles (limited): This is the toughest slice because only about 15% of openings were entry level and only about 15% were remote.

Where to focus: Focus first on mid-level product, UI, and design-system roles in software, technology, and finance-adjacent employers, then widen to education and hospitality in-house teams if you want a steadier local path.

Roles worth searching next

• Web developer: Federal occupation guidance covers web developers and digital designers together, so UI-heavy designers can sometimes bridge into implementation-side roles.
• Product manager: Local product events in Austin explicitly mix designers with other product professionals, which makes PM a realistic pivot for designers with strong research and stakeholder habits.
• Creative technologist: Austin's TouchDesigner community highlighted creative technologist and experiential-design work, which sits next to motion, interactive, and installation-driven design.
• AI video or multimedia producer: A first local HeyGen user meetup signals growing interest in AI video workflows that overlap with visual storytelling and motion-oriented design work.

What postings ask for

• Figma (table_stakes | immediate): Figma appeared in about 55% of sampled Austin Design, Creative & UX postings, making it the clearest baseline tool signal in the market. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level candidates and switchers who need a legible workflow.
• Design systems (differentiator | immediate): Design systems showed up in about 35% of postings, which matters because Austin demand is concentrated in product-heavy employers that want scale, consistency, and collaboration with engineering. Who: Mid-career designers, product designers, and UI specialists.
• Prototyping (table_stakes | immediate): Prototyping also appeared in about 35% of postings, so portfolios that stop at static mockups are easier to screen out. Who: Entry-level and career-switching candidates first, then anyone aiming at product roles.
• User research (differentiator | near-term): User research appeared in about 25% of postings, which is enough to separate business-facing UX candidates from visual-only applicants. Who: UX designers, product designers, and designers trying to move up-market into more strategic roles.
• Interaction design and product design (premium | immediate): Interaction design and product design each appeared in about 20% of postings, and they line up with the better-paid digital-interface side of the market. Who: Designers who want the strongest compensation path and the best fit for Austin's software-heavy mix.
• Adobe Creative Suite (differentiator | near-term): Adobe Creative Suite showed up in about 20% of postings, which keeps it relevant for mixed product-plus-brand roles and for in-house teams outside pure software. Who: Visual designers, brand designers, and generalists applying across hospitality, education, and marketing-adjacent design teams.

Questions about this market

What do Design, Creative & UX roles pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

For Austin digital-product work, the clearest local benchmark is BLS's web and digital interface designer category, which showed a $125,830 mean annual wage and $60.49 mean hourly wage in May 2025. For the broader arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media family in Austin, BLS showed a $61,860 median annual wage, a $73,960 mean, and a $119,320 90th-percentile wage in 2025. More current posting-based signals are higher and narrower at the top: sampled Austin design postings centered on about $113k to $163k, while Texas design openings showed a mean offered salary of about $74,642 on new openings and national design openings about $77,095. This is a split market. Product, UX, and interface roles can pay like tech jobs, while broader creative work still looks much closer to the general arts-and-design wage band.

Where is demand for Design, Creative & UX roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX concentrated?

Opportunity is spread across many employers rather than concentrated in one or two anchor companies. The recent sample captured more than 50 postings across more than 50 companies, and employer concentration was fragmented, with named activity from Gotech, Amazon, Ashby, MML Hospitality group, University of Texas System, Uthealthcomm, and Ryan Group. That helps if you are willing to run a targeted search across multiple sectors, but it also means there is no single Austin design hiring engine to lean on. The industry mix is led by software development and technology at about 25% each, followed by advertising services, education, and financial services at about 10% each. Seniority skews upward, with about 45% mid-level roles and about 35% senior roles versus about 15% entry, and the work setup is mostly local, with about 55% on-site and about 30% hybrid. In practice, that favors candidates who can show shipped product work, stakeholder management, and comfort collaborating in person. The metro backdrop reinforces the same pattern: Professional and Business Services is growing, while Information is shrinking.

Which employers are hiring the most Design, Creative & UX talent in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from Gotech (5 postings), Amazon (5 postings), Ashby (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Design, Creative & UX roles in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 55% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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