Designer II, Designer III, Senior, Lead, and Principal [closed]

1. What are the different levels of designers?
2. What are the levels of a product designer?
3. Is lead designer higher than senior designer?
4. What does designer II mean?

What are the different levels of designers?

A small startup with one or two designers may start with just one or two completely informal levels. Another startup may use four levels, such as Junior Designer, Senior Designer, Design Manager, and Design Director.

What are the levels of a product designer?

The rungs in the product design career ladder are Junior, Mid-Level, Senior, Lead, and Principal.

Is lead designer higher than senior designer?

Generally, in the United States, it goes like this: after two years Associate Designers become Mid-level Designers; after four years they become Senior Designers; after six they become Lead Designers. Not to mention the recent phenomenon of designers who acquire a Senior title less than a year after school.

What does designer II mean?

DEFINITION. This is administrative level work directing the creative technical and/or illustrative graphic artwork of a Department's graphic design function.