Design Leadership Jobs in Adelaide, Australia
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Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Sedgman Prudentia 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Manage engineers and designers to ensure the timely issuance of technical documents and drawings across the project lifecycle. Lead project communications and monitor the technical performance of staff to ensure design standards and budgets are met.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept to handover to ensure compliant and buildable outcomes. Manage multidisciplinary design teams, statutory approvals, and the integration of architectural and engineering documentation.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process across all project phases to ensure buildable, compliant, and commercially aligned outcomes. They are responsible for managing multidisciplinary design teams, overseeing statutory approvals, and ensuring design documentation meets project objectives and quality standards.
Design Manager - Defence
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Intract Australia 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead the design management process for Defence building and infrastructure projects from concept through to handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary consultants and internal teams to ensure compliant and buildable design outcomes.
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Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Cimic 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Senior Design Manager will lead multidisciplinary teams to manage the entire design process from conceptual studies to detailed engineering. They are responsible for monitoring technical performance, managing project budgets and schedules, and ensuring compliance with Australian standards.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.