Design Leadership Jobs in Perth, Australia
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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 - Transmission Lines AUSTRALIA WIDE
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Genusplus Group 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate design teams to deliver high-quality engineering designs and construction documentation on schedule, while managing project delivery, budgets, profitability, and competing priorities. Develop buildable, cost-effective solutions; maintain client and stakeholder relationships; mentor team members; oversee construction planning and tender documentation; and improve processes while ensuring safety, environmental, and quality compliance.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Acciona 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead transmission line and substation design across high- and medium-voltage infrastructure, coordinating design from concept through detailed delivery. Manage interfaces, technical governance, constructability, cost, schedule, change, and risk while leading reviews, consultants, and team capability development.
Design Manager - Ports & Maritime
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary design delivery for complex port, maritime, and coastal projects from feasibility through detailed design and construction support. Oversee technical quality, interfaces, budgets, schedules, risks, client relationships, proposals, and team development.
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Design Manager - Ports & Maritime
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead multidisciplinary design activities for complex maritime infrastructure projects, managing the full project lifecycle from feasibility to construction support. Coordinate technical interfaces across various engineering disciplines while ensuring alignment with client requirements and international standards.
Design Manager, Transmission
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Acciona 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead transmission line and substation design from concept through detailed design, coordinating design interfaces across high- and medium-voltage infrastructure. Manage technical governance, constructability, integration, cost, schedule, design changes and risks, while leading reviews, consultants and team capability development.
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.