Design Leadership Jobs in Australia
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Decode Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage the end-to-end design process for Class 2 residential developments, coordinating multidisciplinary consultants and ensuring design deliverables meet programme, quality, commercial, and compliance requirements. Support project teams from planning through construction by managing design risks and changes, facilitating approvals, and resolving design issues.
Design Manager (NSW)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hickory Group 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager oversees the comprehensive design process from early contractor involvement through to project completion. They coordinate consultants and internal teams to ensure design solutions are efficient, compliant, and buildable.
Design Manager, Transmission
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Acciona 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of transmission line and substation designs across high- and medium-voltage infrastructure, from concept through detailed design. Manage design interfaces, technical governance, risk, cost, schedule, design changes, safety reviews, consultants, and team capability.
Design Manager - CSA
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cpb Contractors 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the Civil, Structural, and Architectural design package, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring designs meet client, regulatory, safety, quality, and constructability requirements. Manage design schedules, budgets, risks, reviews, and changes while supporting the transition to construction and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
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Project Manager / Design Manager – Data Centres (Building Services)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hdr 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary building engineering design delivery for data centre projects, coordinating client expectations, internal disciplines, and external subconsultants. Manage programmes, scope, fees, resources, risks, contractual obligations, project reporting, and design quality throughout delivery.
Project Manager / Design Manager – Data Centres (Building Services)
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Hdr 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary building engineering design delivery for data centre projects, serving as the central interface between clients, internal engineering teams, and external subconsultants. Manage programmes, scope, fees, resources, contracts, risks, documentation, and design quality while supporting client relationships and proposals.
Facade Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Supplyhaus 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and develop the façade design team, forecast workloads, allocate internal and external drafting resources, and deliver accurate, coordinated, buildable shop drawing packages on programme. Coordinate with project managers, clients, consultants, and engineers to resolve technical issues, ensure compliance, manage risks, and improve design quality and delivery.
Senior Designer Design Manager - Travel Lifestyle Merchandise
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hatch 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Develop and oversee creative concepts and merchandise collections from ideation through commercialisation, leading designers and illustrators while managing project roadmaps, timelines, budgets, and quality reviews. Identify market opportunities, design in-store merchandising solutions, and collaborate with sourcing and operations to deliver commercially viable products on time and on brief.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lucid Consulting Australia 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary engineering design teams and manage internal teams and external subconsultants across Defence projects. Coordinate project delivery, client and stakeholder relationships, budgets, programmes, scopes of work, technical reports, and project documentation.
Project Manager / Design Manager – Data Centres (Building Services)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hdr 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the delivery of multidisciplinary building engineering services for data centre projects while acting as the primary interface between clients and internal/external teams. Manage project programmes, scope, fees, and contractual obligations to ensure high-quality, timely design delivery.
Design Manager – Head Contractor – Data Centre Projects
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Amida Group 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead and coordinate design activities from design development through IFC and construction, ensuring deliverables align with project milestones, requirements, standards, and approvals. Manage consultants and stakeholders, resolve coordination and buildability issues, and support coordinated building services and mission-critical infrastructure delivery.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Gough Recruitment 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage the design lifecycle for residential and mixed-use developments, coordinating architects, engineers, specialist consultants, contractors, and internal teams from concept through construction and delivery. Review design documentation, manage risks and changes, and balance design quality with budgets, programmes, commercial viability, and buildability.
Expressions of Interest – Design Manager (Healthcare Project | Albury, NSW)
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cpb Contractors 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead and coordinate design from development through delivery, managing consultants and stakeholders to meet programme, cost, quality, safety, and project requirements. Collaborate with design, engineering, and construction teams to resolve design issues and advance innovation, value creation, and buildability.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Multiplex 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead and manage design development and delivery across the project, coordinating consultants and stakeholders throughout design and construction. Oversee design programmes, documentation, value management, and design changes while working with project and site teams to resolve risks and coordination issues and support efficient construction.
Associate Design Manager
🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Aurecon 🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Lead design management and delivery for major, complex multidisciplinary projects, establishing governance, scopes, work packages, schedules, budgets, and reporting while coordinating disciplines and managing delivery risks. Lead Adelaide’s Design Management team, build client relationships, oversee commercial performance, contribute to bids, and improve local delivery capability.
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.