Design Leadership Jobs in Perth, Australia
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Bechtel Corporation 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead a team to interpret, organize, and coordinate the engineering technical aspects of complex infrastructure projects. They are responsible for ensuring design compliance, managing technical risks, and facilitating communication between stakeholders and contractors.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Civmec 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design team, overseeing end-to-end design functions and ensuring project delivery aligns with schedules and quality standards. They are responsible for mentoring staff, driving continuous improvement in design tools, and acting as a strategic bridge between leadership and creative execution.
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
🇦🇺 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.
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Associate Director - Design Manager, Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary water infrastructure design for major projects from concept through to construction. Manage scope, budgets, and resources while collaborating with clients and stakeholders to align technical and commercial outcomes.
Associate Director - Design Manager, Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary water infrastructure design projects from concept through to construction. Manage project scope, budgets, and technical outputs while collaborating with clients and stakeholders to ensure high-quality delivery.
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.