Jobs at Canva

Leads engineering across Canva Print, setting technical strategy, delivering scalable roadmaps, improving partner integrations and global commerce systems, and supporting rapid product growth. Coaches engineering leaders, builds a high-performing organization, ensures technical quality, partners with Product and Design, manages delivery trade-offs, and connects engineering decisions to commercial outcomes. The role also champions practical AI adoption and owns hiring, development, performance, and engineering’s contribution to revenue growth.

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.

Own the full enterprise sales cycle, from outbound prospecting and account planning through negotiation and close. Generate pipeline, manage forecasts, develop strategic customer relationships, navigate complex buying groups, and present Canva’s SaaS solutions to senior stakeholders. Translate customer challenges into compelling business solutions while collaborating with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales teams to grow enterprise partnerships.

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.

Leads Canva’s corporate accounting team and month-end close activities, including cash, intercompany, leases, accruals, reconciliations, acquisitions, and internal controls. The role manages and develops accountants, resolves cross-functional accounting issues, supports system integrations and enhancements, standardizes processes, and drives scalable close operations across a global organization.

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.

Leads Canva’s Embedded Production Engineering team, guiding senior engineers through complex reliability, scalability, observability, data protection, and production-risk challenges. The role combines technical leadership, coaching, cross-organizational influence, initiative delivery, function building, and development of reusable engineering practices. The manager will shape the team’s operating model, build trust with engineering leaders, improve software resilience, and grow future technical leaders in large-scale production environments.

Leads Canva’s Core Production Engineering team, guiding software engineers through complex, cross-team reliability and scalability initiatives. Sets team priorities, shapes evolving technical scope, coaches engineers, and drives adoption of reusable engineering practices. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, systems and architecture knowledge, cloud and networking experience, and familiarity with production reliability, observability, capacity, and failure modes. Prior SRE or Production Engineering management experience is preferred.

Own and grow university customer relationships across Higher Education. Manage the full sales cycle, build pipeline, develop account plans, progress deals, support adoption, identify expansion opportunities, and communicate customer insights internally. Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Marketing to deliver strong outcomes. The role requires consultative selling, clear communication, forecasting, account planning, and the ability to understand university technology purchasing and adoption processes.

Develops and scales high-performing paid-social creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other channels. Responsibilities include creating concepts, hooks, scripts, copy, UGC-style content, short-form videos, and creative variations; directing shoots; editing rapidly; analyzing performance metrics; forming optimization hypotheses; and partnering with strategists, marketers, and media teams to improve campaign outcomes.

Leads Canva Print’s geographic and SKU expansion strategy, including launch roadmaps, merchandising, product positioning, pricing, performance metrics, and repeatable launch processes. Partners with Operations, Product, GTM, Engineering, Data, and Finance to translate strategy into execution and improve growth across Canva’s physical product catalog.

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.

Leads Canva’s Core IT strategy, technology roadmap, workforce technology experience, and global IT teams. Responsibilities include developing high-performing teams, improving onboarding and device/access management, applying AI and automation, measuring service quality, managing risks, representing IT with executive stakeholders, and ensuring critical initiatives remain on track. The role requires strategic leadership, operational expertise, commercial judgment, and the ability to connect technology investments to business outcomes.

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.

Provide high-level one-to-one support to a senior executive by managing calendars, inboxes, travel, expenses, and sensitive logistics. Coordinate leadership meetings, events, launches, workflows, approvals, and organizational milestones. Improve operational processes, maintain team culture and recognition programs, manage sensitive people matters, and exercise independent judgment while protecting executive capacity.

Own Canva’s international Education growth strategy, prioritizing markets across APAC, LATAM, EMEA and beyond. Build a scalable operating model, align Sales, Marketing, Product, Content and Partnerships, and connect country education leads through a global playbook. Drive activation, retention and habitual use among teachers and students while coaching local leaders and translating market insights into scalable growth initiatives.