Top Design Jobs in Sydney

Staff Product Designer responsible for auditing digital products, defining reusable components and patterns, identifying design inconsistencies, and driving design-system adoption. Collaborates with designers and developers to implement and quality-check components, creates usage guidelines, establishes governance processes, and continuously improves the system based on feedback and design trends.

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.

Leads the product design team across people management, capacity planning, design quality, strategic direction, and delivery. Coaches and develops designers, supports recruitment, partners with Product and Engineering, and improves design operations. Contributes hands-on to complex web and app initiatives through research, user flows, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes. Oversees design systems, accessibility, experimentation, AI-assisted workflows, stakeholder alignment, and customer impact measurement.

Direct the visual direction of static and motion-driven projects from concept through delivery. Collaborate with creative leaders, designers, and motion artists; review storyboards, style frames, animatics, and motion work; provide actionable feedback; and ensure excellence in typography, composition, color, pacing, transitions, and visual storytelling. Present creative work to clients and stakeholders while maintaining a collaborative, detail-focused approach.

Develops and integrates medium- to high-complexity control systems for power generation equipment, including aeroderivative gas turbines. Responsibilities include design documentation, controls software, standards compliance, commissioning support, troubleshooting, cross-functional project collaboration, mentoring, and technology investigation. The role requires power-generation controls experience, industrial programming and communications expertise, schematic interpretation, CAD proficiency, Australian work rights, and occasional travel for customer training or commissioning.

Leads Guardian Australia's visual and editorial design team, creating accessible digital visual storytelling across web, app, and emerging platforms. The role provides creative direction, art direction, and mentorship while collaborating with editorial, engineering, product, UX, and audience teams. Responsibilities include design strategy, interactive storytelling, photography, illustration, animation, data visualization, multimedia projects, visual guidelines, and delivery of complex newsroom work under tight deadlines.

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.

Develop physical mask products from concept through production. Responsibilities include human-centered design, sketching, prototyping, 3D CAD, tolerance analysis, DFMEA, testing, technical documentation, and collaboration with manufacturing teams and suppliers. The role requires balancing fit, comfort, performance, aesthetics, quality, and manufacturability while applying knowledge of materials and production processes.

Design and develop automotive steering and suspension products from concept through market launch. Create SolidWorks models and technical drawings, conduct FEA and engineering analysis, perform testing and validation, maintain technical documentation, ensure safety and compliance, and collaborate with product, procurement, quality, and marketing teams.

Leads human-centered design for healthcare software by conducting user research, mapping workflows, developing prototypes, facilitating design workshops, and running usability testing. Partners with product and engineering teams to improve clinical, billing, and operational workflows, including AI-assisted features. Oversees accessibility, HIPAA-safe research, ONC safety testing, design governance, and HCD practice development while mentoring designers and researchers.

Leads planning, design, procurement, and delivery of capital infrastructure projects across multiple cemetery sites. Manages consultants, budgets, schedules, tenders, stakeholder consultation, project documentation, and compliance with safety, environmental, legislative, and organizational requirements.

Designs and implements DFT architectures and specifications for ASIC/SoC products. Responsibilities include scan insertion, ATPG pattern development, compression and clock-control insertion, optimizing test coverage and power, and pre- and post-silicon verification and debug. The role also requires gate-level simulation, failure analysis, scripting, and collaboration across product teams.

Lead the design and adoption of governed AI agents across marketing workflows. Identify and prioritise use cases, create agent blueprints, integrate solutions into planning and reporting processes, define value metrics, advise senior clients, coordinate consulting and technical teams, guide product adoption, and establish responsible AI governance, privacy, and evaluation practices.

Supports motion design projects across brand identities, digital experiences, campaigns, social content, and film. Creates animation tests, motion studies, and short-form animations; assists with storyboards, visual research, asset preparation, file organization, rendering, and exports. Participates in creative reviews, presents work, and develops designs based on feedback.

Own end-to-end product design across web, native mobile, widgets, and portals. Partner with product and engineering to define problems, prototype, validate, ship, and iterate on solutions. Maintain and evolve Figma design systems, collaborate asynchronously, review implementations, and manage priorities independently. The role requires strong product judgment, research skills, responsive and accessible design knowledge, visual craft, and comfort using AI tools such as Claude.

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.

Designs automated intralogistics and warehouse automation solutions from customer engagement through contract award and implementation handover. Analyzes operational data, develops material-flow concepts, sizes and configures AutoStore systems, creates layouts and equipment specifications, and defines WMS/WCS/WES integration requirements. The role presents technical proposals to customers, coordinates internal teams and suppliers, develops standard solutions, and supports sales and implementation activities across the APAC region.

Lead design package delivery for major bridges, ports, marine structures, and associated civil infrastructure projects. Manage scope, program, quality, and delivery outcomes while coordinating structural, civil, geotechnical, marine, and temporary works inputs. Act as the primary interface between design, construction, clients, contractors, and project stakeholders, ensuring integrated, constructible solutions across complex alliance, joint venture, and design-and-construct environments.

Leads multidisciplinary design delivery across major power infrastructure projects, coordinating design teams through concept, preliminary, detailed design, and construction stages. Manages programs, budgets, risks, interfaces, quality, design assurance, workshops, peer reviews, and technical decision-making. Partners with clients, project managers, engineers, contractors, and specialists to define scopes and deliverables. Supports bids and proposals and contributes to energy design capability development.

Lead strategic planning and urban design programs for the municipality, including growth-area planning, land use and infrastructure strategies, Planning Scheme amendments, Precinct Structure Plans, and proponent-led projects. The role manages technical staff, resources, stakeholder relationships, and complex negotiations with government agencies, developers, consultants, Councillors, and community representatives while providing strategic advice and supporting professional development.

Provides global technical authority for AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure design, governance, assurance, and change approval. Translates high-level architectures into low-level designs, reviews implementation plans and infrastructure as code, enforces security and operational standards, manages technical exceptions, and assures vendor-delivered changes. The role supports CAB governance, major incidents, resilience, disaster recovery, audit readiness, cloud platform standards, and continuous improvement while communicating technical risks and decisions to engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Leads electrical design for Australian high-performance computing data centers, serving as the owner’s representative from concept through detailed engineering, commissioning, and handover. Responsibilities include developing electrical distribution designs, reviewing engineering deliverables, specifying equipment, managing technical queries, overseeing installation and testing, ensuring compliance with Australian Standards, and coordinating internal teams, external engineering firms, manufacturers, and construction partners.

Design and build consumer app and partner platform experiences from concept through release. Responsibilities include UX and visual design, prototyping, frontend development with React and TypeScript, design system improvements, accessibility, responsive interfaces, AI-assisted exploration, and refining products based on user feedback. The role requires close collaboration with design, brand, product, and engineering teams, with ownership of detailed, intuitive digital experiences.

Provide expert data governance input for a target-state operating model, capability framework, maturity levels, and a two- to three-year roadmap. The SME will contribute to workshops, information-gathering sessions, executive deliverables, capability design, dependencies, resourcing, and cost estimates. Responsibilities include advising on data ownership, stewardship, quality, sharing, reporting, analytics, tooling, AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory risks. This is a supporting consulting role without project leadership or policy and technology implementation responsibilities.

Lead high-speed hardware design from specification through production while ensuring product and process quality. Perform component selection, supplier quality evaluation, inspection/testing procedures, audits (ISO 9001), root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement (Six Sigma, Lean, SPC, 8D). Support customer technical discussions, quality reporting, and process optimization to reduce defects and improve efficiency.