Design Leadership Jobs in Melbourne, Australia
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Design Manager- Marine
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Bechtel Corporation 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Leads the delivery and governance of complex marine and port infrastructure design programs while providing strategic leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams. Drives business growth through market engagement, client development, and the leadership of technical pursuits and proposals.
Customer Insights and Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
V/line 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the Customer Insights and Design function to translate passenger feedback and research into actionable improvements. Design and deliver initiatives that support the Passenger Experience Improvement Plan and embed customer-centered ways of working across the organization.
Strategic Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australiansuper 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead strategic discovery and transformation initiatives to improve member outcomes and operational effectiveness within the superannuation landscape. Manage a team of Senior Service Designers to create future-state experiences and evolve the organization's Experience Operating System.
Strategic Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australiansuper 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead strategic discovery and transformation initiatives to improve member outcomes and operational effectiveness. Guide the development of future-state services and operating models while influencing senior stakeholders through evidence-based insights.
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Design Manager - Childrenswear
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Target Careers 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and develop the Childrenswear design team to create commercially successful and customer-focused product ranges. They are responsible for setting the creative vision, driving trend implementation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure operational excellence.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Comade 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Lead the delivery of complex power infrastructure projects by coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams from concept to construction. Manage design lifecycles, safety workshops, and act as the primary technical contact for clients and network service providers.
Design Manager- Data Centres
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Goodman 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Design Manager will lead the design management process across critical services, managing multidisciplinary consultants and ensuring design quality and compliance. They will coordinate design interfaces and support procurement and operational readiness.
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 (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.
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.