Jobs at Canva

Develop content strategy by analyzing data, research, market signals, user trends, and content opportunities. Create evidence-based recommendations, partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data teams, frame ambiguous problems, and communicate strategic insights clearly. The role helps improve content decision-making frameworks and influences priorities across Canva’s global content ecosystem.

Own cloud hosting finance data, reconciliations, reclassification methodologies, monthly close, forecasting, annual planning, invoice validation, dashboards, variance analysis, and cloud cost models. Partner with Accounting, FinOps, Procurement, Finance Data, and infrastructure leaders to improve data quality, allocate hosting spend, identify anomalies, support chargeback, and guide vendor negotiations through scenario analysis, commitment sizing, and benefit tracking.

Own cloud hosting finance data and forecasting across AWS, GCP, AI and non-AI workloads. Reconcile vendor billing, manage Anaplan reclassification methodologies, support monthly close and planning cycles, build dashboards and queries, analyze variances, and prepare cloud vendor negotiation models. Partner with Finance, Accounting, Procurement, FinOps and infrastructure teams on tagging, chargebacks, anomaly detection, accruals and cost optimization.

Manage Canva’s global benefits portfolio during a 12-month parental leave cover. Responsibilities include managing brokers and providers, negotiating renewals, tracking budgets, coordinating benefits launches across countries, analyzing costs and usage, maintaining policies and communications, and partnering with Finance, Legal, Payroll, and People teams. The role also supports compensation benchmarking and broader reward decisions.

Own full-cycle enterprise sales for Canva Enterprise, from strategic account planning and prospecting through negotiation and close. Build executive relationships across complex organizations, drive pipeline and revenue, forecast accurately in Salesforce, and develop long-term customer partnerships. Serve as a Canva product expert, create persuasive customer solutions, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Post-Sales, and provide market insights to strengthen Canva’s offerings.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle for Canva, from outbound prospecting and account planning through negotiation and close. Build strategic relationships with senior stakeholders, navigate complex buying groups, demonstrate Canva’s SaaS value, maintain accurate forecasts, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales teams to grow enterprise partnerships.

Build and maintain Canva’s export infrastructure, focusing on Chromium rendering issues, PDF accessibility post-processing, compliance with PDF/UA and WCAG, monitoring, testing, format optimization, and distributed-systems reliability. The role requires deep debugging across codebases, resilient accessibility solutions, documentation, and backend development using Java and C++.

Provides legal counsel to product and engineering teams on privacy, data protection, intellectual property, AI, online safety, marketing, platform, competition, and consumer laws. Advises on AI products, product launches, partnerships, consumer terms, and risk mitigation; develops AI policies, legal playbooks, and scalable review processes; supports privacy and data security incident response; and monitors global regulatory developments.

Owns end-to-end production of locally relevant graphics and illustration content, sets visual direction, provides craft feedback, and shapes AI-assisted creative workflows. Uses data, search signals, and market insights to identify content opportunities, translate strategy into production plans, and maintain standards for craft, metadata, and discoverability. Collaborates with regional, platform, and operational teams while contributing expertise across motion and illustration.

Owns large, multi-market paid search portfolios across SEM, Shopping, Google App Campaigns, Apple Ads, and emerging AI search platforms. The role leads campaign strategy, budget and incrementality decisions, stakeholder communication, measurement experimentation, automation, market launches, and responses to platform changes. It requires advanced Google and Bing Ads expertise, bid management experience, analytical problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to operate autonomously across global markets and time zones.

Partners with senior leaders to guide strategic planning, forecasting, performance management, financial modeling, investment decisions, and cost efficiency. Builds reporting and planning frameworks, identifies risks and opportunities, strengthens financial controls and close cycles, and translates business strategy into actionable financial insights. Collaborates across FP&A and Finance while developing future finance leaders.

Own the technical direction and architecture of Canva’s Chromium-based export pipeline. Lead rendering reliability, performance, PDF accessibility and compliance, upstream dependency management, distributed systems design, and production troubleshooting at large scale. Mentor engineers through design reviews and complex debugging, establish testing and monitoring for Chromium regressions, and collaborate across the Editing Platform to ensure editor features export reliably.

Lead Canva’s Production Engineering practice at principal level by defining the engagement model, owning complex distributed-systems reliability work, setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, influencing product and infrastructure teams, and establishing reliability metrics. The role requires hands-on software engineering across Linux, JVM or systems technologies, Kubernetes, AWS, observability, performance analysis, incident response, sharding, replication, and multi-region architectures.

Own reliability for Canva’s highest-risk systems by writing production software, improving distributed systems, debugging large codebases, and reducing incidents, latency, and operational toil. The role involves embedded collaboration with product teams, platform contributions, observability, performance analysis, Kubernetes, AWS, Linux internals, networking, and incident response at significant scale.

Lead Canva-wide evaluation strategy for multimodal generative AI across design, image, video, audio, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable human-preference evaluations, auto-raters, MLLM judges, reward signals, benchmarks, and production monitoring. Connect metrics to user and business outcomes, identify bias and contamination, establish launch gates, diagnose regressions, partner with model teams, mentor researchers and engineers, and represent Canva’s evaluation practice externally.

Create high-quality, short-form AI-generated videos end to end from creative briefs. Develop prompts, direct visual composition and motion, iterate across AI video tools, and maintain reusable workflows. Provide structured feedback on model outputs, uphold quality, safety, brand, representation, and copyright standards, and monitor developments in AI video technology. The role supports Canva’s scalable AI video production capabilities.

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.

Provide high-trust executive support to the Founder: manage calendars and meeting triage, build stakeholder relationships, prepare meeting materials and decks, organise travel and expenses, coordinate events and off-sites, and handle ad-hoc operational tasks while leveraging AI to improve efficiency and maintain strict confidentiality.