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 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.

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.

Lead a team to design, develop, and modernize learning experiences for operations associates. Champion AI integration, apply learning science and human-centered design, partner with stakeholders, run a Design CoE, track learning performance metrics, and drive continuous improvement to improve frontline operational KPIs.

Lead the content design discipline for Consumer and Developer Experience: define content vision and strategy, architect end-to-end experiences, scale content design maturity and infrastructure, partner with executive Product/Tech/Design leaders, manage and grow content design teams, advocate high-leverage opportunities, and drive experience excellence and business outcomes across complex, cross-functional initiatives.

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 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.

Leading and mentoring a design team, engaging with customers, defining design strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to enhance product experiences.

Hands-on creative leadership role to design and direct large-scale websites, digital products, and design systems. Lead concepting, prototyping, and execution; translate complex systems into intuitive experiences; collaborate with strategists, technologists, and writers; mentor designers; present to clients; contribute to pitches; and champion accessible, human-centered design and experimentation with emerging tools including AI.

Lead visual interface for enterprise platform engagements: translate UX foundations into production-ready UI, architect and govern design systems, ensure accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), manage and mentor UI designers, partner with engineering/product, and present design rationale to senior stakeholders.

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.

Lead the Registry design org end-to-end: set UX vision, KPIs, and quality standards; ship cross-platform web and mobile experiences; embed AI-native workflows; prototype and contribute production-quality interfaces; run generative and evaluative research; scale design systems; partner with PMs, engineers, and analytics; and hire, develop, and manage a high-performing team of product designers.

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.

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 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.

Lead and execute product design as a player/coach: own design for one product-suite trio, set company-wide design vision and standards, grow and mentor a small design team, steward the design system, use AI-accelerated and coded prototypes to validate with users, and partner with Product and Engineering to drive business outcomes.

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.

Leads creative vision and execution for omnichannel experiential design across physical, digital, retail, event, and customer-facing environments. Oversees concepts, environmental graphics, signage, digital screen content, activations, and brand experiences from strategy through production. Guides creative teams, partners with senior stakeholders and external agencies, ensures brand consistency, and balances craft with budgets, timelines, and operational constraints. Requires expertise in visual storytelling, retail communications, digital content, emerging creative technologies, and team leadership.

Lead enterprise Design To Value program to reduce product cost and improve manufacturability and performance. Drive should-cost modeling, teardown analysis, cross-functional workshops, supplier collaboration, and savings tracking to deliver measurable P&L impact and embed DTV into product development.

Lead and scale an enterprise Design To Value program to reduce product cost and improve manufacturability and competitiveness. Run should-cost modeling, teardown analyses, and cross-functional DTV workshops; partner with sourcing, engineering, operations, and finance to prioritize initiatives and deliver validated annual cost savings and product margin improvements.

Lead end-to-end creative production of YouTube-first long-form content: develop concepts, direct shoots, guide editors, build scalable workflows, and iterate formats using performance insights. Partner cross-functionally with marketing, product, and brand to translate complex design and technical topics into engaging, human stories that grow audience and retention.

Lead enterprise engineering strategy for packaging, processing, and automation across manufacturing. Provide technical leadership for equipment selection, controls/PLC/HMI, robotics, standards, startup/commissioning, vendor evaluations, compliance, capital planning, troubleshooting, and talent development to improve reliability, productivity, and automation modernization.

Hands-on director-level product designer for enterprise SaaS who owns the design system, user psychology, dashboards, data visualizations, and habit-forming product mechanics. Designs workflows to drive adoption, retention, referrals, and expansion while partnering with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success. Prototypes, tests, and refines UX based on analytics and A/B experiments to align design with revenue metrics.

Lead and scale a multidisciplinary design organization to deliver cohesive, end-to-end patient and clinician experiences. Set design strategy, hire and mentor teams, embed human-centered design across product and operations, partner with cross-functional leaders, drive research, experimentation, and design governance, and measure design impact against business and clinical outcomes.