Design Leadership Jobs in Brisbane, Australia
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cbre Asia Pacific 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Provide client-side oversight of design delivery for major high-rise residential projects, reviewing design outcomes, risks, and programme impacts. Support governance, approvals, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and commercial and strategic advice across concurrent project workstreams.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Hassell Services 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager will coordinate information exchange between the project team, consultants, and the client to ensure project momentum. They are responsible for tracking inputs, managing deadlines, and identifying risks to delivery for a major public architecture project.
Design Manager / Technical Director - Maritime
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ghd 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead the planning, assessment, design, and delivery of maritime infrastructure projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and project scope, quality, schedule, budget, risk, and interfaces. Build client relationships and business opportunities, provide technical leadership, review design documentation, and mentor developing engineers.
Design Manager / Technical Director - Maritime
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Ghd Group Pty Ltd 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Design Manager / Technical Director will lead the planning, design, and delivery of complex maritime infrastructure projects while managing multidisciplinary teams. They are also responsible for building client relationships, pursuing new business opportunities, and mentoring junior engineering staff.
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zerra Dc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead electrical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including design reviews, technical audits, and resolution of design discrepancies and interface risks. Coordinate electrical design with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and suppliers, while supporting technical decisions and improving resilience, constructability, and whole-of-life value.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zerra Dc 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead mechanical design management and quality assurance for Western Downs Digital Park, including cooling architecture, heat-rejection strategy, and mechanical plant configuration for high-density data centre environments. Coordinate mechanical design with other disciplines and guide solutions through design reviews, constructability, commissioning, integrated systems testing, and operational handover.
Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resourceful Recruitment 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and manage the design aspects of commercial construction projects from concept through to completion. Coordinate with clients, architects, and engineers to ensure design solutions are functional, compliant, and meet project requirements.
Principal Design Manager
🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Stantec 🇦🇺 South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead technical teams in the design and delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure projects in Queensland. Coordinate multidisciplinary activities, manage subcontractors, and maintain strong client relationships to ensure high-quality technical solutions.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Besix Watpac 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and manage consultants to deliver high-quality design documentation that complies with project briefs and regulatory standards. Collaborate with construction teams and subcontractors to review design constructability and drive delivery efficiencies.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Besix Watpac 🇦🇺 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Lead and manage consultants to deliver high-quality design documentation that complies with project briefs and regulatory standards. Collaborate with construction teams and subcontractors to review design constructability and drive delivery efficiencies.
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.