Top Design Director Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead global finished-goods network strategy for McCain's Snacking business, owning make-vs-buy, footprint, and distribution decisions. Build and lead a new team, develop portfolio segmentation and governance, embed regulatory/trade requirements, run network modeling and scenario analyses, and align cross-functional and regional stakeholders to optimize cost-to-serve, capacity, and resilience.

Lead North American interiors practice delivering workplace strategy and design across multiple projects. Set creative vision, oversee design delivery, mentor teams, lead client engagements, drive business development, and use workplace data to inform strategy. Ensure design quality from concept through construction while coordinating technical disciplines and managing portfolio-level programs and practice growth.

Lead creative vision and delivery for North American workplace interior projects. Direct design from concept through construction, mentor teams, manage multiple complex projects, present to C-suite, coordinate technical disciplines, and support business development. Travel ~10%-20%.

Lead the design and development of user-centered fitness applications, collaborating with multiple teams to enhance user experience and managing design projects.

Lead the design of user experiences for a health-focused tech company, managing a team and collaborating on product development and research.

The Regional Design Director oversees design quality and creativity across a geographic area, nurturing a community of designers, and engaging in strategic growth initiatives while promoting the firm's ethos externally.

Define and operationalize company-wide engineering design standards for aerospace programs (VBAT, XBAT). Standardize CAD, drawing quality, design/analysis workflows, documentation, EBOM/MBOM handoffs, and configuration management. Partner with engineering leaders to scale engineering excellence, influence cross-discipline design decisions, and improve consistency without blocking execution.

The Associate Design Director will lead visual design projects, mentor staff, foster collaboration, and ensure high-quality client deliverables. Responsibilities include managing complex brand campaigns, maintaining brand systems, and overseeing multiple projects while adhering to client expectations and deadlines.

Lead vision and execution for Dropbox's next-generation design system and experience platform. Build reusable patterns, components, tokens, accessibility standards, and operating models to scale product quality across web, mobile, desktop, and AI experiences. Partner with product, engineering, research, brand, and leadership to drive adoption, governance, measurement, and high-fidelity front-end implementation while managing and developing a multidisciplinary team.

Lead Comfrt's fleece product vision and design direction across hoodies, sweatpants, outerwear and new categories. Own end-to-end product design, trend and fabric innovation, and commercial assortment strategy. Partner cross-functionally with merchandising, product development, sourcing and marketing to deliver high-quality, on-brand products. Build and mentor a high-performing design team and establish scalable processes to support rapid growth and execution.

Lead and grow a small, high-velocity product design team as a player-coach, setting design strategy and vision for AI-first enterprise marketing workflows. Maintain visual and interaction design quality, extend the design system, prototype and ship production-ready code using AI-native tools, partner with Product and Engineering on roadmaps, and hire, mentor, and scale the design organization.

Lead and execute Vrbo's end-to-end product design vision as a player‑coach: define organization-level experience strategy, raise craft standards, scale design systems, mentor senior leaders, and integrate customer insights and AI/ML into product experiences to drive business outcomes.

Lead the design of complex digital products and platforms from concept through execution. Partner with strategy, technology, and production to define opportunities, guide creative direction, mentor designers, facilitate workshops, balance vision with delivery, manage multiple projects, and explore emerging technologies like AI.

The Director, Client Development is responsible for securing and executing large-scale capital programs, overseeing client relationships, and leading multidisciplinary teams in the food and beverage manufacturing sector to deliver integrated design-build solutions.

Lead and own the agencywebsite service: design websites, set strategy, track analytics and performance, drive traffic and conversions, manage the web team and freelancers, and improve tools, processes, and growth for increased capacity and quality.

Lead and own the agencywebsite service: design websites, set strategy, track analytics and performance, drive traffic and conversions, manage the web team and freelancers, and improve tools/processes to scale website production while maintaining quality.

The Manager of Graphic Design leads a small team, setting quality standards and contributing to visual design across marketing initiatives. The role involves hands-on design work, mentorship, and collaboration with other creatives to ensure impactful design execution aligned with business goals.

The Director of Client Development will drive large-scale capital programs in life sciences, focusing on client engagement, commercial strategy, and delivery performance. Responsibilities include managing bookings, leading internal teams, and ensuring accountability for client satisfaction and profitability across multi-project initiatives.

Lead UX design for AI-driven IT operations platform, define design principles, create scalable systems, mentor a growing team, influence product strategy.

Lead end-to-end motion design and art direction across product marketing, social, and campaign work. Produce storyboards, animatics, and final animations (primarily After Effects), set visual/motion standards, mentor designers, ideate creative concepts, direct shoots, and manage external partners. Balance speed and quality while partnering cross-functionally to align motion with product and brand goals.

Lead outreach and relationship-building for Design & Technology creators: acquire and retain top creators, develop category-specific education and partnerships, represent Kickstarter at events, drive product adoption and beta recruitment, gather market intelligence, and collaborate cross-functionally to meet revenue, retention, and growth targets.

Lead and mentor a creative design team to develop brand systems, campaigns, and video/photo productions for higher-education partners. Drive end-to-end creative strategy, present work to stakeholders, refine workflows, collaborate with marketing, and use data and modern tools (including AI-assisted workflows) to produce effective recruitment and branding work.

The Creative Director will lead and execute high-impact visual campaigns, collaborating with teams, engaging clients, managing projects, and mentoring junior staff, while bringing deep production experience and strategic thinking to the role.

Lead and grow product design teams for Fetch’s mobile consumer app. Drive design strategy, mentor designers, own collective roadmaps, collaborate with Product/Engineering/Research, deliver high-quality mobile UI and user-centered research, and improve cross-team design processes and team health.

Part-time Director-level HR Business Partner supporting Commercial, Corporate Strategy & Ops, and Finance. Leads organizational design, workforce and capability planning, change leadership, and leadership coaching. Uses AI fluency and people data to inform strategy, redesign roles for human-AI collaboration, streamline HRBP workflows, and measure P&C impact. Partners with centers of excellence and employee relations; advises on complex people issues. Requires travel up to ~25-30% and work during core PST business hours.