Top 48 Design director Jobs in San Jose, Ca

Design Director
McAfee —San Jose, CA
- $141,680 - $232,760 a year
- Full-time
- Remote
- Mentoring
- Senior level
- Leadership
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
2d
Director, Design
eBay Inc. —San Jose, CA
- $224,800 - $300,100 a year
- Multiple hires
- 11+ years
- Senior level
- Leadership
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Art Director, Experience
Apple —Sunnyvale, CA
- $149,700 - $280,000 a year
- Bachelor's degree
- Mentoring
- Experience equivalent to degree accepted
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
Art Director, Games Content
Apple —Cupertino, CA
- $130,700 - $247,400 a year
- Senior level
- 2 years
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
Creative Director, Meta.com
Meta —Menlo Park, CA
- $177,000 - $248,000 a year
- Management
- Writing skills
- Product management
Senior Design Director, Member XD
Netflix —Los Gatos, CA
- $1,130,000 - $2,450,000 a year
- Analysis skills
- Mentoring
- Organizational skills
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
Sr. Director - Design Tools & Systems
eBay Inc. —San Jose, CA
- $256,800 - $342,800 a year
- Full-time
- 11+ years
- Senior level
- Leadership
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Senior Art Director
LegalZoom —Mountain View, CA
- $124,000 - $155,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- 6 years
- Office
- Senior level
- Health savings account
- Disability insurance
Director, Design Verification
Marvell —Santa Clara, CA
- $195,180 - $292,400 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Computer Science
- 5 years
- Employee stock purchase plan
5d
Senior Art Director, Events
NVIDIA —Santa Clara, CA
- $132,000 - $253,000 a year
- Full-time
- Bachelor of Science
- 8 years
- Experience equivalent to degree accepted
13d
Director, Transceiver Design
Molex —Fremont, CA
- $200,000 - $275,000 a year
- Pass drug screening
- Product management
- Travel
- Paid parental leave
- Health savings account
Associate Creative Director, Motion Design
ServiceNow —Santa Clara, CA
- $155,400 - $272,000 a year
- Online Application
- Remote
- Residential
- Mentoring
- Fair chance
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
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6d
Director of Product Design
Poshmark —Redwood City, CA
- Full-time
- Mentoring
- Senior level
- Leadership
Design Director - Interiors
Gensler —San Jose, CA
- Full-time
- 11+ years
- Office
- Bachelor's degree
- Profit sharing
- Paid holidays
13d
Sr. Director eBay Live Design
eBay Inc. —San Jose, CA
- Full-time
- 11+ years
- Senior level
- Leadership
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Director of School Design
Summit Public Schools —Redwood City, CA
- $135,509 - $160,310 a year
- Full-time
- Background check
- Organizational skills
- Senior level
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
Quick Apply
Sr. Art Director, Interactive
Apple —Sunnyvale, CA
- $186,300 - $280,000 a year
- Mentoring
- Organizational skills
- Senior level
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
Director, Silicon Photonics Design
Aeva —Mountain View, CA
- $227,200 - $307,400 a year
- 5 years
- Supervising experience
- Senior level
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
Director, Editorial Strategy
Cisco Systems —San Jose, CA
- $207,000 - $333,300 a year
- Full-time
- Remote
- 11+ years
- Research
- US work authorization
- Paid parental leave
- Paid holidays
6d
Director of Product Design
Drivemode —Mountain View, CA
- $270,000 - $315,000 a year
- Full-time
- Product management
- Mentoring
- Senior level

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Design Director

McAfee -
San Jose, CA

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Job Details

Full-time
$141,680 - $232,760 a year
2 days ago

Benefits

Paid parental leave
Paid holidays
Disability insurance
Health insurance
Unlimited paid time off
Dental insurance
401(k)
Parental leave
Vision insurance
Flexible schedule

Qualifications

Typography
Tooling
Coaching
UI design systems
Managing design projects
Website design projects
Typography design for media
Mentoring
Visual communication design
Brand storytelling
Data-driven content
Professional art or design
AI-driven automation
Senior level
Cross-functional collaboration
Brand identity design
Digital marketing asset design projects
Marketing agency experience
Leadership
Managing art or design teams
Marketing controlled experiments research
Branding project leadership
Managing media, arts or design teams
Senior leadership
10 years

Full Job Description

Role Overview: We are seeking a Design Director to lead the design vertical within Brand Creative Services. This is a player-coach role: you’ll create standout brand work while setting direction, raising craft, and coaching designers to deliver consistently excellent creative across campaigns, lifecycle, and always-on channels. Reporting to the Senior Director, Creative (Design, Concept & Copy), you will partner closely with Copy, Creative Production, and Brand Strategy to translate our brand promise into modern, distinctive, high-performing creative as we evolve and scale our refreshed brand identity.
You will be central to operationalizing our design system, educating internal teams and agency partners on guidelines, ensuring best-in-class application across touchpoints, and helping the organization move faster through smarter workflows, including responsible adoption of AI-enabled design tools for rapid iteration and testing. You’re equally comfortable pushing craft-forward brand work as you are designing against performance insights, using data to refine and improve creative effectiveness without compromising brand integrity. Position Details:

About the role:

Lead design concepting and execution across key brand initiatives—integrated campaigns, lifecycle marketing, product storytelling, social, web, and partner channels, delivering work that is modern, distinctive, and unmistakably McAfee.
Champion and evolve the New McAfee design system and raise craft for the design vertical, developing strong visual systems, layouts, typography, illustration, and brand expression that scale across touchpoints.
Partner closely with Copy, Brand Strategy, Creative Production, Growth/Lifecycle Marketing, and Product Marketing to translate briefs and insights into clear design approaches and compelling creative.
Coach, mentor, and review work from designers, providing clear, actionable feedback, creating growth plans, and fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and inclusive creativity.
Operationalize and steward our refreshed brand identity and design system—educating internal teams and agency partners, ensuring consistent application, and evolving guidelines as the brand scales.
Balance brand-building craft with performance-minded design—using testing and channel insights (e.g., paid social learnings, lifecycle metrics) to iterate and improve creative effectiveness without compromising brand integrity.
Partner with Creative Production to scope work, align timelines, and ensure deliverables are feasible, on-brand, and on time, supporting a healthy, scalable creative workflow.
Champion responsible adoption of AI-enabled design tools to accelerate iteration, explore more creative routes, and improve efficiency—while maintaining quality, originality, and brand safety.
Collaborate with external agencies and freelancers as needed, reviewing work, aligning to guidelines, and ensuring seamless integration with in-house creative.
Be a company leader for Design by presenting and bringing along E Staff all the way up to the CMO and CEO.
Be a people leader with more junior designers reporting into you.

About you:

10+ years of experience creating and leading design work across brand and marketing, with a strong foundation in craft and concept. Both in Agencies and Brand side and experience being a people leader.
Proven ability to set and uphold a high bar for design quality across campaigns and always-on creative, including digital, social, paid media, and lifecycle channels.
Excellence without ego, highly collaborative, able to work across disciplines and backgrounds, and confident presenting design rationale to senior stakeholders.
Strong design systems and brand identity experience—able to translate strategy into scalable frameworks and clear guidelines.
Demonstrated experience mentoring designers and leading through feedback, critique, and hands-on collaboration in a player-coach capacity.
Growth mindset and curiosity—eager to embrace new tools and platforms (including AI-enabled workflows) to increase speed, iteration, and creative exploration.
Experience collaborating with agencies and freelancers to flex resources based on campaign cycles; comfortable reviewing work for brand consistency and craft.

Portfolio Requirement:

A portfolio is required and should demonstrate strong brand systems thinking and end-to-end campaign design across brand and performance channels. Portfolios will be reviewed for both strength in creativity/craft and effectiveness.

Company Overview: McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users’ needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment. Company Benefits and Perks: We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.:

Bonus Program
401k Retirement
Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
Paid Parental Leave
Support and Community Involvement
14 Paid Company Holidays
Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non-Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year

We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why McAfee prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status. Pay Range: The anticipated compensation for this position is USD $141,680.00/Yr. - USD $232,760.00/Yr. depending on experience and qualifications. Job Applicant Privacy Notice: Please click here to view and download the Job Applicant Privacy Notice, which applies to all McAfee job applicants who are residents of the state of California.

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