Top Remote Design Director Jobs

Lead and grow a product design organization responsible for user-friendly workflows, features, and interfaces for Samsara’s IoT platform. The role involves coaching design managers, engaging customers, shaping product design strategy, collaborating with product and engineering partners, shipping high-quality experiences, and improving design systems, team processes, employee experience, and talent development.

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

Leads creative pitches, brand and design vision, strategic cross-channel projects, client presentations, creative reviews, and project staffing. Oversees account onboarding, brand strategy, new business proposals, and enterprise client relationships. Mentors designers and Brand Managers, supports recruiting, improves team processes, and drives design quality while partnering with Project Managers, Business Development, developers, and QA.

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 design for Vanta’s Governance and Compliance product pillar, directing agentic and AI-forward experiences, enterprise platform complexity, design quality, and systems thinking. Manage senior design leaders and individual contributors, develop talent, establish design standards, and partner with product and engineering leadership. The role requires hands-on AI usage, technical collaboration, enterprise B2B SaaS expertise, and experience simplifying complex workflows across multi-organization environments.

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.

Leads development of the AP Marketing and Sales course framework, learning objectives, skill progressions, assessment items, rubrics, and scoring materials. Manages advisory and test development committees, coordinates timelines and deliverables, facilitates stakeholder feedback, and aligns curriculum with assessment standards. Provides content feedback on instructional resources and professional learning materials while supporting field testing, psychometric review, and iterative course improvement.

Leads development of the AP Engineering course framework, learning objectives, skill progressions, advisory committee, and assessment items. Coordinates curriculum and assessment timelines, facilitates stakeholder and committee collaboration, incorporates field-test feedback, and ensures alignment with AP quality, validity, and fairness standards. Provides content feedback on instructional resources and professional learning materials while managing multiple deliverables in an evolving course-design environment.

Owner-side technical lead coordinating and integrating civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, utility, and network design for AI data center deployments. Reviews engineering deliverables, identifies design and constructability risks, enforces Basis of Design standards, supports utility/path-to-power planning, manages consultants, and aligns design with development, construction, power, and operations teams to standardize scalable deployments.

Lead product design vision and strategy while remaining hands-on across UX and UI work. Define information architecture, user journeys, wireframes, interactions, and scalable design systems for native apps, websites, and internal tools. Manage and mentor designers, collaborate with strategy, production, development, and senior clients, and guide projects from definition through launch. Use AI tools, rapid prototyping, and agile practices to create user-focused digital products.

Leads the global UX strategy and design organization across Levi Strauss & Co.'s retail, e-commerce, and internal platforms. Manages 12 designers, establishes design standards and systems, influences product roadmaps and senior executives, and connects design outcomes to business results. Oversees AI-powered experience design, prototyping, user research, cross-functional collaboration, and team development across web, app, and in-store channels.

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%.

Leads ZipRecruiter’s Product Design organization as a player-coach, shaping UX strategy, product outcomes, team standards, talent development, and AI-enabled design practices. Partners with Product, Engineering, and Decision Science leaders to improve employer and job seeker experiences, guide priority initiatives, and build a high-impact design culture.

Leads and grows Docker’s product design team across GUI and CLI products. Sets design quality standards, mentors designers, partners with product and engineering leaders, and remains hands-on with prototyping, critique, interaction details, and copy. Collaborates on design systems and design engineering, guides AI tool usage, and translates technically complex systems into clear user experiences for developer and enterprise audiences.

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 and grows Beacon’s Product Design function across medical devices, mobile apps, web applications, print, and internal processes. Manages and coaches three senior designers, establishes design vision and systems, prioritizes work, partners cross-functionally, and ensures rigorous usability and human factors practices for regulated products. The role remains hands-on while owning hiring plans, budgets, vendors, research, stakeholder alignment, and design quality across patient, clinical, and operational experiences.

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.

Lead Help Scout’s product design team as a player-coach, managing experienced designers while maintaining high craft standards. Own design principles, the design system, AI experience strategy, design workflows, and capacity allocation. Partner with Product, Engineering, Brand Design, and executive leadership to shape product direction, improve cross-functional delivery, and ensure cohesive customer experiences across a fully remote organization.

Leads product design across Experian’s consumer credit, identity, marketplace, and financial services experiences. The role drives AI-native product transformation, creates personalized interaction models, owns design outcomes tied to business metrics, advances behavioral design and design systems, and builds and develops a multidisciplinary design organization. The Senior Director partners with executive leaders across Product, Technology, Engineering, Analytics, and Revenue while shaping consumer trust and product strategy.

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.

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.