Top Design Jobs in Sydney

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

Lead audits to identify reusable components and UX patterns, define and document component and pattern usage, collaborate with teams and developers to implement and maintain a consistent design system, enforce processes, advocate adoption, and iterate based on feedback and trends.

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.

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

Design engineers create specifications and designs for new or improved products, working with customers, developers and stakeholders. Responsibilities include researching, designing for usability, therapy, IP, environmental factors and manufacturability; contributing to and managing projects; building relationships; and occasionally leading project teams or training junior staff.

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 design-system core work by owning standards, primitives, testing tooling, and cross-platform utilities. Drive large-scale frontend quality improvements, partner with product teams, codify best practices, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring and platform adoption across the frontend ecosystem.

Lead delivery of design packages for bridges, ports and associated civil works. Act as design lead, coordinate multidisciplinary inputs, ensure constructability and quality, and interface with construction, clients and stakeholders to deliver integrated, construction-ready solutions across major infrastructure projects.

Lead adoption and governance of BIM and information management (ISO 19650) across projects. Configure and administer Common Data Environments, develop digital engineering workflows and standards, train teams on CDE/BIM practices, and champion digital delivery across multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.

Lead development of a portable React component library that renders on web and React Native. Abstract cross-platform complexity, set standards for building and distributing components, mentor engineers, drive adoption across product teams, and evolve the design system for AI-enabled workflows.

Lead regional civil, structural and architectural design for APAC data center projects. Own the full design lifecycle, set standards and KPIs, coordinate multidisciplinary teams and consultants, support procurement and delivery, promote BIM/modular/low-carbon approaches, mentor regional teams, and manage design risks, cost and schedule impacts.

Support project teams with computational design workflows, run environmental analyses, deliver training in Rhino/Grasshopper/Dynamo, document best practices, and advance studio-wide design technology standards and capability.

Lead and manage the Design Department, overseeing personnel, resource planning, workflow, quality assurance, customer support, and technical development. Monitor metrics, optimize processes, mentor designers and managers, coordinate cross-functionally, oversee design software and documentation, and perform design work as needed to meet production schedules and customer commitments.

The Creative Designer will design functional and visually appealing web product screens, work from brand guides, and maintain creative thinking while adapting across projects.

Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary industrial design teams across concept to construction stages. Manage design programs, budgets, risks, interfaces and quality. Provide technical guidance, run design workshops and assurance, support bids and proposals, and mentor junior staff while ensuring integrated, robust design outcomes aligned to client objectives.

Build production-quality, pixel-accurate UI components and interactions in React Native; prototype in Figma with designers; own the design system and component library; improve performance, animations, and cross-platform UI architecture; define design-to-dev tooling and collaborate across design and engineering.

Perform creative design tasks including concept development, visual assets, layouts, and revisions. Collaborate with stakeholders to meet branding and project requirements and deliver polished design deliverables on schedule.

Support brand and creative execution by creating and adapting visual assets for digital and offline channels, assisting campaign artwork resizing and localization, preparing in‑store and print‑ready materials, maintaining brand consistency, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver assets on time.

Lead mechanical design delivery for hyperscale data centre projects from concept through IFC, including chilled water plant, large-bore pipework, air-side systems, BMS integration, prefabrication drive, team leadership, and construction/commissioning support.

The Associate Director will lead multi-disciplinary design teams, manage client interfaces, oversee design strategy, program compliance, and ensure technical leadership across projects.

Manage the design and delivery of ports and maritime infrastructure projects, coordinating teams and building client relationships to ensure successful outcomes.

Provide senior technical leadership for design of mission-critical power and thermal infrastructure across multiple projects. Own design strategy, governance, risk management, and technical handover; lead reviews, workshops and stakeholder interfaces; ensure compliance with standards, manage engineering risks, and support procurement, commissioning and delivery to meet client, commercial and operational requirements.

Lead regional design engagement and Experience Centre operations, manage a team of Design Development Managers and Experience Centre staff, cultivate relationships with tier 1 specifiers/designers/architects, plan and run events, translate global strategy into regional execution, and drive specification and commercial outcomes using CRM and programme tools.

Develop RTL for digital blocks, perform lint/CDC analysis and DFT support, assist in writing functional tests and simple UVM components, collaborate on verification and coverage closure, support AMS co-simulation and mixed-signal integration, and work with physical design on synthesis and timing.