Design Leadership Jobs
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Design Manager- Data Centres
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Goodman 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the design management process for critical data centre services, including mechanical, electrical, and integrated systems. Coordinate between multidisciplinary consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure design intent is realized through to operational handover.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
Vinci Construction 🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will lead design teams for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment among stakeholders and compliance with technical and client requirements. This role includes managing design management plans, overseeing HSEQ compliance, and acting as a liaison between construction and design teams.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Apparent 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will provide high-level creative oversight, ensuring design output is cohesive and on-brief. They will also act as a bridge between visual and experience design teams, managing quality control and protecting the time of design leaders.
Design Manager - HV & Renewables
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Enemix 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead design across solar, wind, and battery storage projects from feasibility to construction support. Manage external design consultants and ensure compliance with Australian standards and grid connection requirements.
Design Manager | Transport Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Systra 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Deliver transport infrastructure design packages from concept through to construction for roads, highways, and rail projects. Manage design scope, budgets, and multidisciplinary teams while coordinating with contractors and authorities like TfNSW.
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Design Manager | Transport Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Systra Anz 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Deliver transport infrastructure design packages from concept development through to detailed design and construction issue. Manage design scope, programme, budget, and resources across multiple project stages.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Arcadia Recruitment 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will review and develop architectural drawings, assess design options, and coordinate with external architects and consultants. They will also monitor design quality and resolve issues throughout the project lifecycle.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hays 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As Project Manager / Design Manager, you will oversee multiple capital works projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to lead design development and project handover.
Project Manager / Design Manager (Architecture)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fairfield City Council 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The successful candidate will manage several key projects within a major community precinct and support a broader portfolio of civic, community, cultural, and events infrastructure projects. This role involves leading design development while managing procurement, contract administration, construction delivery, and project governance.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sunshine Coast Regional, Queensland, Australia
Symal Group 🇦🇺 Sunshine Coast Regional, Queensland, Australia
As Design Manager, you will lead and manage the design process, ensuring deliverables are completed on time and within budget. You will coordinate with various stakeholders to manage risks and drive successful project delivery.
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.
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.
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.
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.