Design Leadership Jobs in Sydney, Australia
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Head Of Design
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Meshki 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Head of Design will define and protect the brand's product handwriting while leading the design team to create commercially successful and creatively distinctive collections. They will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure product consistency, fit, and alignment with overall brand vision and commercial objectives.
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
🇦🇺 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
🇦🇺 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.
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Design Manager – Water Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aecom 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead multidisciplinary project delivery teams for water infrastructure projects, ensuring they are completed within quality, time, and budget constraints. Additionally, you will collaborate with clients and contractors to make key design decisions and support business initiatives.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Built Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Senior Design Manager will provide expert design leadership and independent insight across tenders and live projects to strengthen design outcomes. They will act as a trusted advisor to project teams, reviewing documentation and navigating complex design challenges throughout the project lifecycle.
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.