Top Design Director Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and scale UX, content design, and user research across a complex B2B healthcare product portfolio. Define experience strategy, governance, design system adoption, AI-enabled interactions, and measurable UX quality metrics. Partner with Product and Engineering, reduce ambiguity, embed UX early in discovery, and build high-performing design teams to improve usability, adoption, accessibility, and customer satisfaction.

The Director of Interaction Design will lead the product team, set design vision, manage designers, and contribute to UX/UI across platforms.

Lead and elevate product design and research for an AI-first knowledge platform. Define process, tooling, standards, and craft; shape UX strategy for developer-focused B2B products; coach and grow designers and researchers; run rituals and build research infrastructure that drives decisions; collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver production-ready prototypes and AI-native experiences while advocating for users across the organization.

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.

The APD Director translates healthcare challenges into implementable plans, collaborates with teams to commercialize solutions, and engages clients through strategic storytelling and problem-solving.

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.

Lead design strategy and execution for a large, integrated B2B SaaS product portfolio. Own design vision, evolve and drive adoption of a bespoke design system, raise craft and interaction quality, build high-performing teams, and partner cross-functionally to deliver measurable business and product outcomes, including AI-powered workflows and experimentation-driven improvements.

Lead and grow the commerce product design organization, define strategic vision for DTC/B2B/membership experiences, set design policy and standards, drive data-informed UX and A/B experimentation, partner cross-functionally with Product/Engineering/Marketing, hire and mentor designers, and explore AI-enabled personalization to improve revenue-driving user experiences.

Lead the product design team at Bubble, driving design processes, hiring, and refining the design system to enhance user experience on the platform.

Lead motion, video, and digital design for multi-channel campaigns and brands. Manage and mentor motion and brand designers, establish scalable motion pipelines, own creative presentations and pitches, operate within AI-integrated production workflows, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery across concurrent workstreams.

Lead and mentor a Sales Engineering team, drive solution design, manage technical pre-sales processes, and collaborate across teams to enhance customer integration and satisfaction.

Lead UX strategy and execution for enterprise-scale digital platforms. Create concepts, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and specifications. Collaborate with product, development, and project teams, implement enterprise design systems, ensure WCAG accessibility, and manage design resources to deliver cohesive, brand-consistent human-centered experiences.

Lead the product design team at Higharc to create user-centered solutions, manage resources, and drive design quality and strategy.