Design Leadership Jobs in Australia
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process across all project phases to ensure compliant, buildable, and commercially aligned outcomes. Manage multidisciplinary design teams and consultants while ensuring alignment with project budgets and statutory requirements.
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
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover. They are responsible for ensuring design documentation is compliant, buildable, and aligned with project objectives and commercial drivers.
Senior Design Manager I Bundaberg Hospital
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cpb Contractors 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design activities across the project lifecycle for the Bundaberg Hospital Redevelopment. Manage consultants and stakeholders to ensure design quality, compliance, and successful construction delivery.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover. They are responsible for ensuring design documentation is compliant, buildable, and commercially aligned while managing multidisciplinary teams and project stakeholders.
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and coordinate the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover. They are responsible for ensuring design documentation is compliant, buildable, and aligned with project budgets and commercial objectives.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, 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
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Dcoh 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and manage the end-to-end design process from concept through to construction and handover while ensuring compliance and buildability. Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams and manage project-specific design plans to achieve key milestones and statutory approvals.
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
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Icon 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage all design activities across multiple construction projects to ensure compliance with specifications, contracts, and regulations. Collaborate with architects, engineers, and project managers to ensure timely and cost-effective project delivery.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Besix Watpac 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Provide design leadership to ensure project, commercial, and time targets are met for design and documentation deliverables. Collaborate with stakeholders and manage consultants to deliver high-quality, compliant design documentation from tender to handover.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Besix Watpac 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Provide design leadership to ensure project, commercial, and time targets are met for design and documentation deliverables. Lead project consultants and stakeholders to deliver high-quality, compliant design documentation from tender through to handover.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Besix 🇦🇺 River Of Life City Church, Slacks Creek, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Senior Design Manager will provide design leadership to the project team and manage consultants to ensure high-quality documentation is delivered on time and within budget. They are responsible for overseeing design strategies, regulatory compliance, and the final handover of project documentation.
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.
Design Manager (Freelance)
🇦🇺 Australia
Charcoalblue 🇦🇺 Australia
Provide subject matter expertise and design guidance for event, collaboration, and executive briefing spaces. Translate client visions into actionable briefs and manage stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of experiential projects.
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.