Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager - Defence
🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Lucid Consulting Australia 🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering design teams across Defence projects. Manage multiple projects while ensuring successful outcomes and maintaining relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Head of Design and Architecture Services
🇦🇺 Clayton VIC 3168, Australia
Monash Health 🇦🇺 Clayton VIC 3168, Australia
Provide strategic leadership across enterprise architecture, technology governance, and application portfolio management to define the future-state architecture for a large health service. Establish architecture standards and roadmaps to ensure digital investments align with clinical and organizational priorities.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Uknighted Recruitment 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
As Design Manager, you will manage the design process across multiple commercial projects, ensuring quality and buildability. You will coordinate with various stakeholders and support project teams throughout the delivery phase.
Design Manager (CSA)| Vantage (Engineering)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cpb Contractors 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will coordinate the CSA design across various teams to ensure timely delivery. They will lead design reviews, manage RFIs and design changes, and work closely with site teams to ensure practical and buildable designs.
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gurner™ Group 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
You will lead projects through every stage of the design journey, managing architects and consultant teams from concept to construction delivery. Additionally, you will act as the key design contact throughout project delivery, ensuring design intent is maintained.
CX & Service Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aia Australia 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The CX & Service Design Manager is responsible for driving customer, partner, and employee-centric design across AIA. This role leads the end-to-end design process, leveraging Human-Centred Design principles to create seamless and impactful experiences.
CX & Service Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aia 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design of customer, partner, and employee experiences using Human-Centred Design principles. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate insights into service blueprints and journey maps that drive operational efficiency and customer retention.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Endeavour Group 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design and delivery of store environments for Dan Murphy's and BWS, managing multiple projects across various stages. They will ensure alignment with brand standards and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Endeavour Group 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design and delivery of store environments for Dan Murphy's and BWS, managing multiple projects across various stages. They will ensure alignment with brand standards and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 Karragullen WA 6111, Australia
Endeavour Group 🇦🇺 Karragullen WA 6111, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design and delivery of new and refurbished store environments for Dan Murphy's and BWS. This includes managing multiple projects, ensuring alignment with brand standards, and collaborating with various stakeholders.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Endeavour Group Careers 🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of new and refurbished store environments for Dan Murphy's and BWS. Manage external partners and internal stakeholders to ensure construction aligns with brand standards and regulatory requirements.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 Kelmscott, Armadale Railway PSP, Camillo WA 6111, Australia
Endeavour Group Careers 🇦🇺 Kelmscott, Armadale Railway PSP, Camillo WA 6111, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of new and refurbished store environments for Dan Murphy's and BWS. Manage external partners and internal stakeholders to ensure construction aligns with brand standards and regulatory requirements.
Design Manager - (Delivery - New & Renewal)
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Endeavour Group Careers 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of new and refurbished retail stores for Dan Murphy's and BWS. Manage external partners and internal stakeholders to ensure construction aligns with brand standards and regulatory requirements.
Design Manager - Defence
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Intract Australia 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead the design management process across Defence building and infrastructure projects. Coordinate with consultants, project teams, and Defence stakeholders to deliver compliant and practical design outcomes.
Design Manager | Data Centres
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Redpath Partners 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and manage the design consultant team to deliver high-quality design documentation on time and within budget. Oversee the design process across large-scale data centre projects from pre-construction through to completion.
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.