Top Remote Design Director Jobs

Lead the design vision for Jira's AI transformation, managing a team of designers to create experiences where AI systems collaborate with human teams.

Lead product design strategy and vision for Toast’s Enterprise Core organization. Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing design team while driving design excellence across POS systems, platform ecosystems, mobile, web, hardware, and AI experiences. Partner with product, engineering, analytics, and commercial teams to understand enterprise users, simplify complex workflows, conduct research and design reviews, and use customer insights and metrics to improve product and business outcomes.

Leads graphic design and visual identity across Splendid’s marketing channels while art directing fashion and lifestyle photo and video shoots. Manages designers and freelancers, develops seasonal design systems, reviews creative deliverables, partners on ecommerce UI/UX and accessibility, and oversees shoot concepts, styling, production, retouching, and final asset delivery. Requires strong design craft, leadership, photography direction, production management, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead conceptual and production-oriented visual design for campaigns and digital experiences. Build scalable design systems, component libraries, modular toolkits, and automated workflows for multi-channel asset production. Oversee projects, mentor designers, manage direct reports, collaborate with creative and motion teams, present to clients, and ensure high-quality delivery across digital, video, print, and emerging platforms.

Leads visual, UI, brand, and product design direction for major digital experiences. Builds design systems, guides multidisciplinary teams, mentors designers, manages complex workstreams, develops client relationships, and ensures high-quality delivery. The role also champions AI-augmented design workflows, integrates emerging tools into creative practice, and partners with strategy, product, engineering, and client services to deliver scalable solutions.

Design polished digital product experiences across desktop and mobile, translating user journeys and product requirements into flows, interfaces, and prototypes. Build and document scalable design systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients, support implementation quality, and present design decisions. Design Director engagements additionally provide creative leadership, mentorship, and client guidance.

Leads Hilton Lifestyle hotel developments across North America from pre-signing through opening. Oversees architecture, design, construction, renovations, conversions, and adaptive reuse while balancing brand vision, operational performance, commercial priorities, and guest experience. Reviews design and construction documents, conducts site inspections, manages risks, coordinates owners and consultants, drives decisions, and maintains project reporting. The role requires hospitality development expertise, strong project leadership, and travel of 40–50%.

Lead Nen Creative’s brand and design practice across identity, web, and launch projects. Set creative direction, ensure quality, mentor a multidisciplinary team, manage senior client relationships, support pitches and new business, and improve creative processes and workflows. The role combines strategic creative leadership with hands-on design involvement in a fast-growing, remote-friendly studio.

Leads creative direction and execution for digital, print, and multimedia marketing assets. Owns the digital design system, brand consistency, creative production, and performance optimization. Manages and mentors digital designers while partnering with product, marketing, sales, UX, and copy teams. Translates user insights into compelling experiences, oversees projects from concept through delivery, develops brand guidelines, and supports hiring and team development.

Leads ServiceNow’s content design organization across digital products, AI-native workflows, conversational experiences, and traditional interfaces. Develops content strategy, standards, frameworks, research practices, lifecycle processes, and impact metrics. Partners with Product, UX, AI, Engineering, and DesignOps leaders to improve comprehension, trust, task completion, and platform consistency. Builds and mentors a high-performing team while scaling content design capabilities across the broader design organization.

Leads the design of procedural game worlds, combining terrain, creatures, resources, buildings, encounters, and points of interest into cohesive player experiences. Establishes standards for pacing, density, traversal, sightlines, and world composition; partners with Tools, Art, UX, and Engineering on generation frameworks and prototypes; guides systems from concept through live operation; and builds and mentors a high-performing world and level design team.

Leads the global design, launch, adoption, and scaling of partner programs and go-to-market initiatives. Builds reusable program frameworks, coordinates cross-functional launch readiness, manages regional partner program teams, and drives activation across Americas, EMEA, and APJ. Measures adoption, partner readiness, productivity, and business impact while refining processes, reducing manual work, and transitioning successful programs to steady-state owners.

Lead and scale Slate's digital product design across web, mobile, in-vehicle HMI, and marketplace experiences. Define design vision, build design systems and tooling, run UX research and optimization (A/B and multivariate testing), partner with product and engineering, hire and mentor design teams, and represent design at executive levels to ensure cohesive, accessible, and measurable customer experiences.

Provides strategic and operational leadership for design quality across hardware, firmware, software, connected devices, and AI-enabled medical products. Leads Design Quality Engineering teams; oversees design controls, risk management, verification and validation, design transfer, human factors, and lifecycle activities. Partners with R&D, regulatory, clinical, manufacturing, and product teams to ensure compliance with FDA, ISO, IEC, and international requirements. Uses post-market data to mitigate risks, supports audits and inspections, improves quality systems, and develops quality leaders and teams.

Lead a senior design organization of seven designers spanning product, content, and research. Set design strategy, improve product development, reduce design debt, and connect design investments to revenue, retention, and company priorities. Define AI-native design practices, elevate product quality and consistency, and coach, hire, and develop the team while partnering closely with product and engineering leadership.

Leads Prenuvo’s Creative function, setting brand vision and quality standards across campaigns, digital, social, web, motion, environments, events, and partnerships. Builds and develops a multidisciplinary creative organization, manages priorities and resources, oversees agencies and production partners, establishes scalable creative processes, and partners with Marketing, Growth, Product, Clinical, Commercial, and CX leaders. The role also connects creative performance insights with brand strategy and explores AI-enabled production opportunities.

Lead the design vision for Ancestry’s core family-history experiences, including the Tree, Person Page, Merge, and Records. Drive cohesive customer journeys, identify opportunities to improve trust and engagement, translate research and data into design direction, and collaborate across product, engineering, data, marketing, and support. Guide user flows, prototypes, wireframes, and visual systems while coaching designers and aligning senior stakeholders around human-centered product strategy.

Build and lead Tergar Schools’ secular Model of Learning, including teacher training, school toolkits, playbooks, family materials, and onboarding systems. Work hands-on with partner schools in Nepal, test and refine the model in classrooms, translate contemplative teaching into scalable materials, collaborate with the research lab, and build the team needed for expansion across multiple countries.

Leads seasonal creative vision across fashion, color, trend, materials, silhouettes, styling, and product direction. Translates runway, cultural, consumer, and competitive insights into commercially relevant brand concepts. Partners with Design, Merchandising, and Product Development to ensure cohesive execution, presents seasonal concepts to senior stakeholders, and builds a high-performing creative team.

Leads the product design vision and team for Cyberhaven’s Flow data security platform. Owns end-to-end UX, AI-agent interaction patterns, research, design systems, usability measurement, and platform migration experience. Partners with executive, product, engineering, and customer teams to shape strategy and roadmap. Coaches designers, raises design quality, represents customer needs, and develops a scalable design function for complex enterprise security software.

Leads BILL’s multidisciplinary design organization and owns the company’s visual brand across campaigns, web, video, events, product marketing, and templates. Establishes creative vision, brand systems, AI-enabled workflows, video production capabilities, team processes, budgets, and agency partnerships. The role hires and develops designers, presents creative to senior leaders, manages capacity and prioritization, and partners with marketing, web, and product design teams to deliver distinctive, high-quality work at scale.

Leads workflow strategy, process design, governance, documentation, standardization, and continuous improvement across Client Service & Delivery. Establishes process ownership, decision rights, KPIs, governance routines, and adoption plans; analyzes operational data to identify root causes and improvement opportunities. Facilitates workshops, develops training and executive materials, partners with analytics and technology teams, coaches stakeholders, and drives measurable operational outcomes across domestic and offshore teams.

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.

Leads global ASIC physical design engineering teams and directs end-to-end physical implementation from RTL to GDSII. Owns methodology development, PPA optimization, low-power design, advanced-node tape-outs, physical verification, risk management, budgets, and schedules. Collaborates with architecture, RTL, DFT, CAD, package, and test teams to achieve first-pass silicon success. Manages EDA vendors and IP providers while mentoring distributed teams across the USA, India, and Italy.

Leads Nokia’s Analog/RF/Mixed-Signal ASIC development organization, overseeing product definition, architecture, circuit design, foundry engagement, layout, tape-out, silicon bring-up, testing, qualification, and productization. Builds and mentors technical teams, establishes design methodologies, selects circuit topologies, develops product roadmaps, and collaborates with verification, CAD, product, packaging, and test engineering partners to deliver high-performance SiGe ASIC solutions.