Director Of Product Design Jobs
Director Of Product Design jobs are open across tech, fintech, healthcare, and consumer products, from senior individual contributor to VP level, with specializations in systems design, user research leadership, and cross-platform experience. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.
This role reports to the Vice President of Product Design of Commerce.
Primary focus
The focus of this team is on the experience of the end user who starts out as a prospect and has an interest in purchasing a subscription through a device partner (ie Samsung TV, Roku, Apple TV, Apple mobile, Android mobile etc). The journey continues through possible offers, and then to the purchase journey. The Commerce Product Design Team also cares for the UX of the user who wants to upgrade, downgrade, or wants to cancel their subscription through a device partner.
This role holder will lead, mentor, conceive, define, design, develop, test, and launch vivid and compelling experiences that are contextually relevant, exceedingly useful, and will drive results.
You will partner closely with other designers and design leaders on driving an innovative design vision while ensuring AI (Agentic Commerce) features feel seamless, natural, and cohesive across surfaces and platforms.
Key responsibilities
- Lead a team of product designers to deliver end-to-end UX for high-value, consumer-centric digital products.
- Present creative to all audiences. Formulate and communicate ideas and plans to peers, leadership, and engineering contributors.
- Balance inputs from business, design, research, technology, and external partners. Create a network of cross-functional partners. Build rapport and earn trust.
- Provide creative thought leadership and drive UX design solutions by combining industry best practices with your own expertise and insight about human behaviour.
- Lead design teams in ideation and concept explorations.
- Lead design teams in running their own UX research in the discovery phase.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and other internal partners to define the strategy & experience of consumer facing products.
- Collaborate with product owners and engineers to successfully deliver products to market.
- Lead others. Grow talent. Provide creative direction and mentorship to designers and define patterns and practices for the team and the product.
- Provide updates to leadership and address blockers for the team.
- Have a human centred design approach to how to evolve our output and process.
- Maintain a critical eye, and an obsessive attention to detail.
- An ambassador to a healthy and collaborative culture for our product organization.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Salary range: $210,000 - $260,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).
Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.
Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.
This role reports to the Vice President of Product Design of Commerce.
Primary focus
The focus of this team is on the experience of the end user who starts out as a prospect and has an interest in purchasing a subscription through a device partner (ie Samsung TV, Roku, Apple TV, Apple mobile, Android mobile etc). The journey continues through possible offers, and then to the purchase journey. The Commerce Product Design Team also cares for the UX of the user who wants to upgrade, downgrade, or wants to cancel their subscription through a device partner.
This role holder will lead, mentor, conceive, define, design, develop, test, and launch vivid and compelling experiences that are contextually relevant, exceedingly useful, and will drive results.
You will partner closely with other designers and design leaders on driving an innovative design vision while ensuring AI (Agentic Commerce) features feel seamless, natural, and cohesive across surfaces and platforms.
Key responsibilities
- Lead a team of product designers to deliver end-to-end UX for high-value, consumer-centric digital products.
- Present creative to all audiences. Formulate and communicate ideas and plans to peers, leadership, and engineering contributors.
- Balance inputs from business, design, research, technology, and external partners. Create a network of cross-functional partners. Build rapport and earn trust.
- Provide creative thought leadership and drive UX design solutions by combining industry best practices with your own expertise and insight about human behaviour.
- Lead design teams in ideation and concept explorations.
- Lead design teams in running their own UX research in the discovery phase.
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and other internal partners to define the strategy & experience of consumer facing products.
- Collaborate with product owners and engineers to successfully deliver products to market.
- Lead others. Grow talent. Provide creative direction and mentorship to designers and define patterns and practices for the team and the product.
- Provide updates to leadership and address blockers for the team.
- Have a human centred design approach to how to evolve our output and process.
- Maintain a critical eye, and an obsessive attention to detail.
- An ambassador to a healthy and collaborative culture for our product organization.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Salary range: $210,000 - $260,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).
Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Adobe3
- 2K Games1
- Brio Water Technology1
- Cadence Design Systems1
- Design Workshop1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software6
- Electronics & Hardware2
- Media & Entertainment2
- Retail2
- Construction & Real Estate1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of product design jobs.
- 7 or more years of product design experience including 2 or more years managing designers
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped consumer or enterprise products at scale
- Proficiency in Figma and experience owning or contributing to a design system
- Ability to partner with product management and engineering at the leadership level
- Experience conducting and synthesizing user research to inform design strategy
- Bachelor's or master's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field
Tips for Your Director Of Product Design Job Search
Tailor your portfolio for leadership
Hiring committees at the director level want to see how you shaped a team's design process, not just polished final screens. Lead each case study with the strategic problem, your decision-making, and measurable outcomes your team delivered.
Highlight your design systems experience
Many director of product design roles require owning or scaling a design system across multiple product lines. Call out specific systems you've built or governed, the tools involved, and how adoption improved design velocity or consistency across engineering teams.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of product design openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies mid-design-maturity
Director of product design roles have the most impact and broadest scope at companies building out their design practice, not those with fully established teams. Filter for organizations that recently hired their first few designers or are scaling a product team rapidly.
Prepare a design critique example
Most interview processes include a live design critique or team portfolio review. Practice articulating not just what you'd change in a design, but why, grounding your feedback in user needs, business constraints, and the team's current capacity to execute.
Negotiate scope before title or compensation
At the director level, the team size, reporting structure, and product surface area you'll own matter more than title variations. Ask directly in late-stage conversations how many designers report to the role and which product areas you'll have final design authority over.
Director Of Product Design Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of product designs?
The companies hiring the most director of product designs right now include Adobe, 2K Games, and Brio Water Technology, with the largest share of openings in California, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is concentrated in companies scaling their product org or launching new platform lines.
How many director of product design jobs are remote?
About 18% of director of product design openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting broad acceptance of distributed design leadership across the industry. Sub-areas like UX strategy, design operations, and systems design tend to see the highest share of remote-eligible postings compared to roles tied to hardware or in-person research programs.
How do you become a director of product design?
Most directors reach the role by first establishing a strong individual contributor record, then moving into a lead or principal designer position where they mentor others and own a product area end to end. From there, taking on direct reports, running design critiques, and owning cross-functional relationships with product and engineering builds the leadership foundation hiring managers look for at the director level.
Can you get hired as a director of product design without prior management experience?
It's possible but uncommon. Some companies will consider senior individual contributors who have informally led design on a large product surface, mentored junior designers, or driven a design system adoption effort. The strongest candidates without formal management history make their case through documented influence on team process, clear examples of cross-functional leadership, and a portfolio that shows strategic product thinking rather than execution alone.
What does the director of product design interview process look like?
The process typically runs across four to six stages. It usually starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a portfolio presentation where you walk through two or three case studies in depth. Later rounds include a design critique or take-home exercise, a leadership interview focused on how you build and develop teams, and cross-functional conversations with product management and engineering partners before a final executive discussion.
Where can I find and apply to director of product design jobs?
You can find and apply to director of product design jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience and seniority, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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