Design Director Jobs in Massachusetts
Design Director jobs in Massachusetts are in strong demand, concentrated in technology, biotech, consumer goods, and financial services firms, with roles ranging from senior individual contributors to executive creative leads. Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville are the primary hiring hubs, where employers like Fidelity Investments, Wayfair, and Bose maintain in-house design organizations with ongoing director-level needs. Product design, brand and experience design, and UX leadership are the most consistently sought specialties. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Bevi is on a mission to transform how beverages are delivered and consumed. Our connected beverage platform eliminates the need for single-use bottles and cans, making it easy, fun, and sustainable to stay hydrated. As the category leader in IoT-enabled beverage technology, we're building a future where Bevi machines are everywhere people live, work, and connect. We've raised over $160M in venture capital, serve thousands of customers across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, and we've been rapidly growing year over year, saving over 1 billion bottles from waste. In addition to driving hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.
Bevi is looking for a Senior Director, Product & Experience Design to lead the team that shapes how our products look, feel, and work, from the Bevi machine that houses your favorite drinks, to the screen experience that turns your selections into your go-to pour.
We believe design isn't just how Bevi competes, it's how we win. The way our machines look and feel, and the way our interfaces guide someone through a choice, is often the difference between a drinker reaching for a plastic bottle or reaching for Bevi. This role owns that: you'll shape how the Bevi product shows up in the world - both in terms of physical industrial design and UI/UX design -and you'll have real influence over decisions that touch every product we ship. Everything you and your team do must have an incredibly close connection to our customers - they are your beacon in this role. Their needs/problems must be solved through a highly functional and beautifully designed set of products that bring our brand to life.
You'll own design across two disciplines: industrial design and UI/UX design. You'll manage the designers who bring both to life, and you'll be the person who makes sure a Bevi machine feels like Bevi whether someone is touching the hardware or our digital components (both outward facing and to our service partners, technicians, and internal teams). This is a craft and leadership role in equal measure. You'll set the product design vision and standards, and you'll manage a team that needs a strong creative leader and a strong people manager at the same time. You'll drive the team to find new ways to design and build. This role will partner closely with our Marketing and Brand Creative teams to ensure that our brand is brought to life cohesively.
This role reports to the VP of Product and sits on the extended product leadership team. It will operate in close partnership with Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and more. As Bevi's design function grows, there's room for this role to grow with it.
What You'll Own
Design Vision & Craft
- Define and maintain a coherent design language across Bevi's hardware and digital products, so the physical machine and the on-screen experience feel like they came from the same place.
- Set the bar for craft across industrial design and UI/UX, and be hands-on enough to raise it as well.
- Own CMF (color, material, finish) standards and decisions for hardware, in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Operations.
- Bring a strong point of view on where design should push Bevi's products forward, not just execute on what's asked. You should be comfortable not just engaging with Bevi's executive team, but guiding them through the lens of design principles.
The End-to-End Product Experience
- Own how every drinker, client, and partner experiences the Bevi product, from "the first look" through the choice, the pour, the taste, and the reason they come back. Everything they see, touch, taste, and feel should be unmistakably Bevi - and that shared essence is driven by you and your team.
- Treat user experience as the engine of product love. Great design drives repeat pours, advocacy, and in turn, a placement into a habit, and a habit into growth for Bevi.
- Design for the full journey Bevi takes folks on, from the drinkers who use our products, to the clients who place them, to the partners and technicians who service them. The experience should hold end to end.
Team Leadership
- Manage and grow a team of Industrial Designers and UI/UX Designers, giving each discipline what it needs to do great work while keeping both aligned to one vision.
- Coach designers on craft and career growth, and build a team that can scale with Bevi's product roadmap.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into design direction, and push back when a plan doesn't hold up design-wise.
- Work directly with Engineering to protect design integrity from concept through production, especially on hardware where tolerances and manufacturing realities meet the vision.
- Represent design in product strategy and planning conversations, making sure design is shaping and informing decisions early, not just polishing them at the end.
Systems & Scalability
- Build and maintain design systems that let the team move fast without losing consistency as Bevi's product line grows.
- Establish clear standards and processes for how design work gets reviewed, approved, and put into execution mode by designers and cross-functional partners
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of design experience with 5+ years leading both physical/industrial design and digital/UI-UX design, ideally for connected hardware or consumer electronics products.
- Proven experience managing and growing a multidisciplinary design team.
- A portfolio that shows range across hardware and digital, with strong craft in both.
- Experience owning CMF decisions and working closely with engineering and manufacturing partners to bring designs to production.
- Comfortable setting vision and being in the details. This role needs both.
- Strong communicator who can hold their own with engineers on manufacturing constraints and with executives on brand and product vision.
- A track record of building or scaling design systems that keep a growing product line consistent.
- Bonus: a broad design sensibility beyond ID and UI/UX to help inform and drive how Bevi views design more holistically than just the physical and digital products themselves.
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Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO plus 12 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc
- Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents
- Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
- Wellness and fitness reimbursements
- Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
- Onsite snacks, weekly catered lunch, and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terra-cycling, too
- Happy hours, team-building events, bagel breakfasts, Values awards - and more.
A note on AI in our hiring process: We use AI to help synthesize interview notes and surface themes from feedback, keeping our process consistent as we grow. Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and interviews may be recorded to support note-taking, just let us know if you'd prefer we don't. We'll also ask how you're learning and experimenting with AI in your work. Growing our AI fluency is something every Bevi team member is committed to and invested in.
Our commitment to responsible innovation is reflected in our partnership with the Mass AI Coalition, a collaboration that aligns with our dedication to community-driven progress and the future of technology.
We're passionate about supporting career growth and would love to be part of your professional journey. We also know that talent comes in many forms. We value individual accomplishments, specialized knowledge, and genuine passion over simply checking boxes on a requirements list. Whether you're a seasoned expert or an emerging talent, we're looking for people who are ready to build what's next. If any of our open positions interest you, we'd encourage you to apply! A member of the Bevi Talent team 'recruiting@bevi.co' will be reaching out about next steps if we would like to move forward.
Accommodations:
Bevi is committed to an inclusive hiring process and we aim to provide accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you need any accommodations for the application or throughout the interview process please contact recruiting@bevi.co.
Bevi is on a mission to transform how beverages are delivered and consumed. Our connected beverage platform eliminates the need for single-use bottles and cans, making it easy, fun, and sustainable to stay hydrated. As the category leader in IoT-enabled beverage technology, we're building a future where Bevi machines are everywhere people live, work, and connect. We've raised over $160M in venture capital, serve thousands of customers across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, and we've been rapidly growing year over year, saving over 1 billion bottles from waste. In addition to driving hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.
Bevi is looking for a Senior Director, Product & Experience Design to lead the team that shapes how our products look, feel, and work, from the Bevi machine that houses your favorite drinks, to the screen experience that turns your selections into your go-to pour.
We believe design isn't just how Bevi competes, it's how we win. The way our machines look and feel, and the way our interfaces guide someone through a choice, is often the difference between a drinker reaching for a plastic bottle or reaching for Bevi. This role owns that: you'll shape how the Bevi product shows up in the world - both in terms of physical industrial design and UI/UX design -and you'll have real influence over decisions that touch every product we ship. Everything you and your team do must have an incredibly close connection to our customers - they are your beacon in this role. Their needs/problems must be solved through a highly functional and beautifully designed set of products that bring our brand to life.
You'll own design across two disciplines: industrial design and UI/UX design. You'll manage the designers who bring both to life, and you'll be the person who makes sure a Bevi machine feels like Bevi whether someone is touching the hardware or our digital components (both outward facing and to our service partners, technicians, and internal teams). This is a craft and leadership role in equal measure. You'll set the product design vision and standards, and you'll manage a team that needs a strong creative leader and a strong people manager at the same time. You'll drive the team to find new ways to design and build. This role will partner closely with our Marketing and Brand Creative teams to ensure that our brand is brought to life cohesively.
This role reports to the VP of Product and sits on the extended product leadership team. It will operate in close partnership with Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and more. As Bevi's design function grows, there's room for this role to grow with it.
What You'll Own
Design Vision & Craft
- Define and maintain a coherent design language across Bevi's hardware and digital products, so the physical machine and the on-screen experience feel like they came from the same place.
- Set the bar for craft across industrial design and UI/UX, and be hands-on enough to raise it as well.
- Own CMF (color, material, finish) standards and decisions for hardware, in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Operations.
- Bring a strong point of view on where design should push Bevi's products forward, not just execute on what's asked. You should be comfortable not just engaging with Bevi's executive team, but guiding them through the lens of design principles.
The End-to-End Product Experience
- Own how every drinker, client, and partner experiences the Bevi product, from "the first look" through the choice, the pour, the taste, and the reason they come back. Everything they see, touch, taste, and feel should be unmistakably Bevi - and that shared essence is driven by you and your team.
- Treat user experience as the engine of product love. Great design drives repeat pours, advocacy, and in turn, a placement into a habit, and a habit into growth for Bevi.
- Design for the full journey Bevi takes folks on, from the drinkers who use our products, to the clients who place them, to the partners and technicians who service them. The experience should hold end to end.
Team Leadership
- Manage and grow a team of Industrial Designers and UI/UX Designers, giving each discipline what it needs to do great work while keeping both aligned to one vision.
- Coach designers on craft and career growth, and build a team that can scale with Bevi's product roadmap.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into design direction, and push back when a plan doesn't hold up design-wise.
- Work directly with Engineering to protect design integrity from concept through production, especially on hardware where tolerances and manufacturing realities meet the vision.
- Represent design in product strategy and planning conversations, making sure design is shaping and informing decisions early, not just polishing them at the end.
Systems & Scalability
- Build and maintain design systems that let the team move fast without losing consistency as Bevi's product line grows.
- Establish clear standards and processes for how design work gets reviewed, approved, and put into execution mode by designers and cross-functional partners
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of design experience with 5+ years leading both physical/industrial design and digital/UI-UX design, ideally for connected hardware or consumer electronics products.
- Proven experience managing and growing a multidisciplinary design team.
- A portfolio that shows range across hardware and digital, with strong craft in both.
- Experience owning CMF decisions and working closely with engineering and manufacturing partners to bring designs to production.
- Comfortable setting vision and being in the details. This role needs both.
- Strong communicator who can hold their own with engineers on manufacturing constraints and with executives on brand and product vision.
- A track record of building or scaling design systems that keep a growing product line consistent.
- Bonus: a broad design sensibility beyond ID and UI/UX to help inform and drive how Bevi views design more holistically than just the physical and digital products themselves.
#LI-CD1
#LI-HYBRID
#LI-FULLTIME
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans with BlueCross BlueShield, 95% paid by employer
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO plus 12 company holidays, and additional paid days for sick leave, etc
- Generous fully paid parental leave for both birth parents and non-birth parents
- Fully employer paid disability and life insurances
- Wellness and fitness reimbursements
- Monthly stipends for cell phone use and commuting costs
- Onsite snacks, weekly catered lunch, and (of course) unlimited Bevi ... plus composting and terra-cycling, too
- Happy hours, team-building events, bagel breakfasts, Values awards - and more.
A note on AI in our hiring process: We use AI to help synthesize interview notes and surface themes from feedback, keeping our process consistent as we grow. Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and interviews may be recorded to support note-taking, just let us know if you'd prefer we don't. We'll also ask how you're learning and experimenting with AI in your work. Growing our AI fluency is something every Bevi team member is committed to and invested in.
Our commitment to responsible innovation is reflected in our partnership with the Mass AI Coalition, a collaboration that aligns with our dedication to community-driven progress and the future of technology.
We're passionate about supporting career growth and would love to be part of your professional journey. We also know that talent comes in many forms. We value individual accomplishments, specialized knowledge, and genuine passion over simply checking boxes on a requirements list. Whether you're a seasoned expert or an emerging talent, we're looking for people who are ready to build what's next. If any of our open positions interest you, we'd encourage you to apply! A member of the Bevi Talent team 'recruiting@bevi.co' will be reaching out about next steps if we would like to move forward.
Accommodations:
Bevi is committed to an inclusive hiring process and we aim to provide accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you need any accommodations for the application or throughout the interview process please contact recruiting@bevi.co.
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Design Director Job Market in Massachusetts
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- Technology & Software
- Construction & Real Estate
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in design director jobs across Massachusetts.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field
- Seven or more years of progressive design experience including team leadership
- Demonstrated portfolio of shipped products or brand systems at scale
- Experience managing cross-functional projects with engineering and product partners
- Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, or comparable collaborative design tools
- Strong communication skills for presenting creative strategy to executive stakeholders
Design Director Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a design director in Massachusetts?
Most design directors in Massachusetts follow a path from individual contributor designer to senior designer to design manager before reaching the director level. There is no state-issued license or registration required for the role. Employers in Boston and Cambridge typically look for candidates with a degree in design or a related field, a portfolio demonstrating leadership-scale work, and several years of people management experience. Graduate programs at institutions like MassArt and Northeastern produce many candidates who eventually reach this level.
Which companies hire design directors in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring design directors in Massachusetts right now include Bevi, Chewy, and AbbVie, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Massachusetts's concentration of technology, life sciences, and consumer brands means hiring is spread across both large headquarters and well-funded growth-stage companies, particularly in the Greater Boston area.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most design director jobs?
Boston, Canton, and Cambridge have the most design director openings in Massachusetts. Boston drives the largest share of listings because of its density of technology firms, financial services companies, and consumer brands headquartered or regionally anchored there, while Cambridge draws significant demand from biotech and academic-adjacent organizations, and Somerville has grown as a design hub tied to the expanded Kendall Square ecosystem.
Are there remote design director jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 67% of design director openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the discipline's strong suitability for distributed work. Strategic and management-heavy responsibilities such as design systems oversight, stakeholder presentations, and team coaching translate well to remote settings, while hands-on production review and workshop facilitation are more commonly handled on-site.
How can I get hired as a design director in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a design manager or lead designer role first, then building toward director-level responsibility. Large Massachusetts employers in technology and consumer goods, including firms headquartered in the Boston metro, often hire senior designers with two or three years of informal team leadership into manager roles. From there, demonstrating cross-functional ownership and strategic impact is what opens the director track. A strong portfolio showing systems thinking, not just execution, is the clearest credential edge for candidates making this transition.
Where can I find and apply to design director jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to design director jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current Massachusetts openings. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly through the listings on this page.
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