Design Leadership Jobs in Sydney, Australia
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Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Consultanz Civil Engineering, Construction, Surveying Recruitment 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will lead and mentor a team of design engineers while preparing and reviewing designs for bored piers, CFA piles, and retaining walls. They will coordinate with project managers and external consultants to deliver practical foundation solutions for major civil infrastructure projects.
Design Manager - Residential
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Bluestone Recruitment 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage pre-construction design activities and collaborate with architects, engineers, and contractors to ensure timely and cost-effective project delivery. Oversee design development, approvals, and compliance with building codes while advising on buildability and methodology.
Design Manager - South Sydney
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hays 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will lead the civil design function by managing a team of engineers and drafters to deliver multiple projects from concept to completion. Key duties include coordinating design reviews, ensuring technical accuracy, and supporting business development through client relationship management.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Icon 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage and oversee design activities across multiple large-scale construction projects to ensure compliance with specifications and regulations. Collaborate with architects, engineers, and project managers to maintain design schedules, budgets, and accurate documentation.
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Senior Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Roberts Co 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Manage the end-to-end design process for residential, education, or health projects, ensuring compliance with Australian Standards and building codes. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver cost-effective, sustainable solutions while overseeing budgets, timelines, and documentation.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Apparent 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Design Manager will provide high-level creative oversight, ensuring design output is cohesive and on-brief. They will also act as a bridge between visual and experience design teams, managing quality control and protecting the time of design leaders.
Design Manager - HV & Renewables
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Enemix 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead design across solar, wind, and battery storage projects from feasibility to construction support. Manage external design consultants and ensure compliance with Australian standards and grid connection requirements.
Design Manager | Transport Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Systra 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Deliver transport infrastructure design packages from concept through to construction for roads, highways, and rail projects. Manage design scope, budgets, and multidisciplinary teams while coordinating with contractors and authorities like TfNSW.
Design Manager | Transport Infrastructure
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Systra Anz 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Deliver transport infrastructure design packages from concept development through to detailed design and construction issue. Manage design scope, programme, budget, and resources across multiple project stages.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Hays 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
As Project Manager / Design Manager, you will oversee multiple capital works projects from concept to completion, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to lead design development and project handover.
Project Manager / Design Manager (Architecture)
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fairfield City Council 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The successful candidate will manage several key projects within a major community precinct and support a broader portfolio of civic, community, cultural, and events infrastructure projects. This role involves leading design development while managing procurement, contract administration, construction delivery, and project governance.
Design Manager | Data Centres
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Redpath Partners 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and manage the design consultant team to deliver high-quality design documentation on time and within budget. Oversee the design process across large-scale data centre projects from pre-construction through to completion.
Project Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac Limited 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design process from concept to delivery for a residential project at Green Square. Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external consultants to ensure design excellence, buildability, and alignment with budget and programme.
Senior Project Design Manager - Services and Technology
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Mirvac Limited 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead the services and technology strategy and delivery across a diverse portfolio of office, mixed-use, and residential projects. Coordinate with internal stakeholders and consultants to ensure high-quality, sustainable, and commercially viable design outcomes.
Design Manager
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Fulton Hogan 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead and manage the design process for major infrastructure projects to ensure alignment with construction objectives and client requirements. Act as the primary interface between design consultants, project teams, and stakeholders to optimize delivery outcomes.
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.