Top Design Jobs in Sydney

SMG Studio is seeking expressions of interest for roles in game development, art, design, production, QA, and studio operations. They value flexibility and contribute to meaningful projects.

Drive workforce planning for Design & Engineering in Australia: manage demand marketplace, maintain 12-week forecasts, support mobilization/demobilization, engage stakeholders and pursuits, improve WFP data and tags, identify recruitment needs, escalate supply/demand risks, and provide insights to enable resourcing decisions.

Leads design management for complex rail infrastructure projects across feasibility, concept, detailed design, and delivery. Ensures compliance with rail standards, codes, and safety regulations; coordinates multidisciplinary design teams; manages interfaces across stations, corridors, systems, and structures; develops design documentation and executive briefings; and maintains relationships with transport authorities, contractors, and project partners across Australia and New Zealand.

Serve as a trusted design and product advisor at Fisher & Paykel’s Sydney Experience Centre. Build relationships with architects, interior designers, builders, vendors, and other specifiers; provide appliance recommendations and project specifications; host tours, culinary experiences, and events; support venue operations; and contribute to marketing case studies. The role requires premium brand representation, value selling, presentations, networking, and rostered weekend and occasional evening work.

As a Product Design Intern, assist in creating product features, improving user experience, conducting research, and collaborating with designers and developers.

Lead strategy and execution of product design for Airwallex business accounts, overseeing UX/UI for cash, transfers, high-yield and credit products. Partner with PM and engineering, run research and experimentation, raise UX/UI quality across desktop and mobile, integrate with design systems, and grow a multi-location design team.

Design and specify physical hardware systems for rail and infrastructure programmes. Responsibilities include rack layouts, equipment configurations, cable routing and terminations, power distribution, thermal constraints, earthing and bonding, EMI/EMC considerations, equipment mounting, cable containment, and installation-ready engineering documentation. The role coordinates subsystem requirements and provides technical ownership for consistent hardware design across the programme.

Designs and delivers complex data infrastructure and Professional Services solutions across ANZ, specializing in data migration, replication, clustering, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Acts as a technical advisor throughout pre- and post-sales engagements, leads customer evaluations and POCs, automates integrations using scripting and APIs, and contributes to RFPs and RFQs. Requires advanced expertise in storage, operating systems, virtualization, networking, cloud offerings, and multi-vendor data center environments.

Build accessible interactions for Canva’s Editor, including focus management, keyboard navigation, live regions, and ARIA semantics. Use VoiceOver, NVDA, and JAWS to test and debug accessibility behavior. Collaborate with engineers and designers, review implementations, identify systemic accessibility gaps, and develop architectural solutions across a large frontend codebase. Guide teams on accessible development and co-design solutions with assistive technology users.

Leads motion design and animation for marketing campaigns, product explainers, social content, and digital advertising. Develops storyboards, visual concepts, animation systems, and reusable templates while maintaining brand consistency and technical quality. Collaborates with creative, marketing, product, video, and design teams; mentors junior designers; presents concepts; manages multiple projects; troubleshoots production issues; and explores advanced VFX, 3D animation, emerging formats, and current motion design trends.

Lead motion design and animation for marketing campaigns, product explainers, social content, and digital advertising. Develop storyboards, visual concepts, animation systems, and reusable templates while maintaining brand consistency and technical quality. Collaborate with Creative, Marketing, Product, video, and design teams; mentor junior designers; present concepts; oversee production workflows; troubleshoot technical issues; and explore VFX, 3D animation, and emerging motion trends.

Lead BJAK’s brand identity, visual strategy, creative campaigns, and cross-channel design execution. Mentor a multidisciplinary creative team, maintain design quality, manage scalable workflows, and partner with growth, product, and leadership teams. Use data, market insights, and consumer trends to optimize creative output while ensuring consistent brand expression across digital, social, product, and offline channels.

Own and evolve a multi-brand design system across web and mobile for HomeMade and Mable. Design tokens, components, patterns, documentation, governance, accessibility standards, and AI-tool integration. Audit component usage, drive consolidation, partner with engineering on implementation and quality, lead the cross-functional Design System Guild, and advocate for adoption. The role requires strong systems thinking, advanced Figma expertise, autonomy, decision-making, and practical experience using AI tools such as Claude.

Leads operational design, readiness, capability uplift, and continuous improvement across Qantas Customer Care and Recovery. Manages Business and Support Analysts, prioritizes initiatives, shapes operational solutions, establishes implementation readiness, and embeds change across customer servicing, recovery, and disruption operations. Partners with operational leaders, Digital, Learning and Development, and project stakeholders to improve customer and business outcomes.

Leads multidisciplinary teams delivering major rail and transport infrastructure projects from planning through completion. Owns scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, commercial performance and client satisfaction. Manages project execution plans, governance, interfaces, stakeholders, consultants and delivery risks. Provides team leadership, mentoring and strategic guidance while supporting client relationships, business development, bids and proposals across NSW and national markets.

Lead the end-to-end design management process across major construction projects, from concept through handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary consultants and design teams, manage design programmes, approvals, documentation, buildability, compliance, HSEQ, risks, procurement, budgets, value engineering and stakeholder relationships. Oversee design quality, issue resolution and document control while mentoring Design Coordinators and ensuring outcomes meet project, commercial and construction objectives.

Conduct frontier research on generative models for design creation. Train and evaluate LLMs and multimodal models at scale, develop data pipelines, training objectives, evaluation benchmarks, and quality metrics, investigate model failures, and translate research into production techniques. Own research projects from problem framing through validated or shipped outcomes, collaborate with product teams, communicate findings, and remain current with generative modeling advances.

Coordinates design documentation throughout construction projects, tracking consultant deliverables, reviewing drawings for compliance and buildability, resolving RFIs and design conflicts, supporting statutory approvals, leading design workshops, maintaining document control, and monitoring design programmes, consultant performance, and regulatory requirements. The role collaborates with design managers, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and project teams to support timely, accurate, and construction-ready information.

Expression-of-interest opportunity for 2D animation design artists across character, environment, prop, vehicle, colour script, background layout, and background paint disciplines. Artists will create production-ready artwork, replicate established show styles, meet quotas and deadlines, communicate clearly, and collaborate within animation pipelines. Roles range from strong mid-level artists to leads, with Sydney-based, hybrid, and remote opportunities available.

The role involves teaching graduate-level design courses, supervising doctoral students, and ensuring curriculum compliance while contributing to program and institutional initiatives.

Lead the end-to-end product experience across acquisition, onboarding, avatar selection, chat, media generation, and retention. Drive conversion, retention, and LTV through hypotheses, prioritization, A/B testing, and data-informed design. Establish the product’s design direction and design system, lead a multidisciplinary design team, and partner with product, analytics, marketing, engineering, research, and support.

Write distinctive, engaging copy across blogs, newsletters, brand materials, sales and marketing pages, headlines, and campaigns. Collaborate with an editor and creative lead, respond constructively to feedback, iterate quickly, and support documentation and other writing needs. The role prioritizes a strong personal voice, creativity, versatility across formats, and a portfolio demonstrating range over specific years of experience.

Lead and establish onshore wind farm Balance of Plant (BoP) design capability in Australia. Manage multidisciplinary design teams across civil, electrical and environmental disciplines through tender, ECI and detailed design phases. Coordinate design optimisation, interfaces with contractors and clients, embed best-practice tools and workflows, ensure constructability and cost effectiveness, and mentor teams while liaising with global centres.

Lead frontend architecture and complex cross-team initiatives for Canva’s Photo Editor. Set technical direction, improve performance, establish engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, identify strategic technical opportunities, and collaborate with product, design, and machine learning teams. Contribute hands-on to critical projects involving complex frontend applications and potentially graphics-intensive image-editing experiences.

Design, develop, and deploy performant software for Canva’s editor, primarily using TypeScript with opportunities across React Native and native platforms. Drive measurable performance improvements through instrumentation and performance data, build frameworks and libraries for other engineers, solve complex architectural problems, and lead initiatives from concept through delivery. Collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams while sharing technical knowledge across the organization.