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Design Jobs in New Zealand

There are 118 open Design jobs in New Zealand on freehire right now. 38 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are ai, figma and prototyping.

Most requested skills

ai 29%
figma 27%
prototyping 18%
accessibility 14%
agile 14%
interaction-design 14%
typography 14%
illustrator 10%

How the work is done

Onsite 28 · 24%
Hybrid 18 · 15%
Remote 7 · 6%

Visa sponsorship offered in 55% of the 22 postings that state a position on it.

Seniority

Senior 31
Lead 15
C-level 3
Intern 3
Principal 3
Junior 1

Who is hiring

1000+ employees 11
501-1000 employees 8
51-200 employees 3
201-500 employees 2
11-50 employees 1

118 jobs

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118 jobs Posted Sort

Senior Designer - Vehicle Design

NewBe an early applicant On-siteAPACFull-timeSenior

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

Assembly CAD Itar Process Improvement Teamcenter

Transformation Design & Delivery - Senior Analyst

NewBe an early applicant APACFull-timeSenior

Management Level Senior Associate Job Description & Summary Kia ora, At PwC, our purpose is clear: to build trust in society and solve important problems. This is a place to keep growing. You’ll learn from the…

AI Automation Process Improvement Stakeholder Management

Digital Design Systems Specialist

NewBe an early applicant APACFull-time

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity We are looking for an Information and Platform Management professional with experience across a range of CAD tools including Bentley ProjectWise / Bentley Infrastructure Cloud and…

Automation CAD Cloud .NET GIS +3 skills

TTM Designer

New APACContract

Te kōwhiringa | The Opportunity Help shape safer roads and smarter infrastructure. Downer is seeking an experienced Temporary Traffic Management ( TTM) Designer to join our National TTM team. Based in New Plymouth, you…

AutoCAD Hazard Identification Risk Assessment

Software Engineer, Design System - Fixed Term Mat Contract

New APACContract

At Serko, we believe something incredible happens when people come face-to-face. That’s why we’re on a mission to engineer a frictionless, next-generation business travel marketplace. We don’t just manage travel; we…

Accessibility Agentic AI Agile AI API +8 skills

Senior Designer - Vehicle Design

Open 102d APACFull-timeSenior

Designs and certifies flight safety systems for Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, ensuring avionics hardware meets rigorous standards through testing, documentation, and regulatory compliance.

Assembly CAD Itar Process Improvement Teamcenter

Ministry of Social Development

Senior Advisor Design | Secondment or Fixed Term Opportunity

New APACContractSenior

A fixed-term or secondment Senior Advisor role in New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development (Disability Support Services), based in Wellington, providing strategic and operational advice on service and system design to improve outcomes for disabled people. The work applies human-centred and systems design approaches across policy and delivery, ending 30 June 2027.

104K – 126K NZD

Ministry of Social Development

Manager Service Design | Transformation | Wellington

New APACFull-timeSenior

Leads and grows the Service Design practice within New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development Transformation Group in Wellington, managing a team of service designers, setting practice standards and methods, and supporting workforce planning for a major welfare-system transformation. Core focus: enterprise service design, people leadership and Te Tiriti o Waitangi commitments.

Accessibility AI Performance Management Strategic Planning

143K – 178K NZD

Product Design Lead

New RemoteAPACLead

Fuel50 is a workforce transformation platform helping organisations understand workforce capability, build skills and enable internal mobility in an AI-driven world. Our products combine skills intelligence, talent…

Accessibility AI Claude Code CSS HTML +6 skills

Graphic Designer

New APACFull-time

Graphic/Brand Designer at Rocket Lab's Auckland facility creating visual content across the business — mission patches, merchandise, event graphics, digital campaigns, presentations, and rocket livery. Day-to-day is hands-on brand design in Adobe Creative Suite, partnering with the Brand Design Lead and cross-functional teams.

Blender Cinema 4d Figma Illustrator InDesign +6 skills

Marketing Designer (Fractional, 2-3 days/week)

New RemoteAfrica, APAC, Europe, LATAM, MENA, North America, UKContract

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Marketing Designer (Fractional, 2-3 days/week) based in Israel. This is a high-impact…

AI CSS Figma Gdpr HTML +7 skills

Service Designer - 9 Month Initial Contract

RemoteAPACContract

Hands-on service designer on a 9-month initial contract, placed by consultancy Collada into a large NZ public sector programme. Day to day: running design research with users, frontline staff and providers, running co-design sessions, and turning findings into journey maps, service blueprints and other artefacts using human-centred design.

110 – 125 NZD / hr

University of Auckland

Teaching Design Lead

APACFull-timeLead

Join us as we establish a new Teaching Design and Innovation Studio Continuing, full-time role based at our Hamilton campus, and supporting academic staff across our Tauranga campus and in international settings…

University of Waikato

Teaching Design Lead

APACFull-timeLead

Join us as we establish a new Teaching Design and Innovation Studio Continuing, full-time role based at our Hamilton campus, and supporting academic staff across our Tauranga campus and in international settings…

blind-squirrel-games

Mid-Level Technical Designer

APAC, LATAMMiddle

Blind Squirrel Games is hiring a Mid-Level Technical Designer in Manizales, Colombia to design, prototype, and implement gameplay mechanics, levels, UI/UX, and narrative features, working with designers, artists, and engineers and iterating on playtesting feedback. Requires 2+ years in games, a design portfolio, and scripting familiarity (C#, Python, or Lua); Unreal/Unity prototyping preferred.

C# Lua Prototyping Python Storyboarding +2 skills

Sunstone Talent

Senior 3D Animation Designer (VFX / Motion Graphics)

On-siteAPACFull-timeSenior

A Senior 3D Animation Designer creates high-quality animations and visualisations of equipment, infrastructure and buildings — building detailed scenes, crafting camera movements, and combining animation, footage, sound and graphics into polished videos. Core tools include 3ds Max/Maya plus Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere.

3ds Max AI Maya Motion Graphics Photoshop

90K – 110K NZD

New Zealand Defence Force

Solution Designer

On-siteAPACFull-time

Salary: $126,827 - $146,989 (including 4% superannuation) Mō te tūnga | About the role We're establishing a new Cyber Operations Application Team (COAT) that will help protect and strengthen critical NZDF digital…

Agile Solution Design

PULSE ELECTRICAL & COMMUNICATION SERVICES LIMITED

Electrical Design Draftsperson

Prepares detailed electrical drawings, wiring diagrams, layouts, and as-built documentation for residential, commercial, and industrial projects across Auckland, including site visits and liaison with electricians and clients. Core tools are CAD drafting software such as AutoCAD, Revit, and EPLAN.

AutoCAD Automation CAD Revit

IDEXX Laboratories

Senior Product Designer

HybridAPACFull-timeSenior

Help more pets get the care they need, by designing how vet clinics and pet parents connect. The reminder that gets a puppy in for its vaccinations. The text that reassures a worried owner after surgery. The booking…

Accessibility Agentic AI Agile AI Figma +4 skills

Art & Design Contractors

HybridAPACContract

ART & DESIGN CONTRACTOR POOL Location: Symonds Street, Manukau, Wellington, Christchurch, Remote, or Remote (International) This is an open job ad for anyone who wants to or has been approached to work with…