Mid-weight Print Designer (9-month, Contract)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Alongside our global campuses, we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. 

This role is a 9-month engagement, working full-time hours per week.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

Design & Craft

• Create high-quality print designs across formats (marketing materials, templates, collateral)
• Apply strong typography, layout, colour, and composition principles
• Ensure designs are functional, editable, and scalable within Canva templates
• Uphold Canva’s “one quality bar” across all print outputs

Print Production & Technical Execution

• Prepare print-ready files, including correct bleed, trim, colour profiles (CMYK), and resolution
• Conduct pre-flight checks to ensure accuracy and consistency before production
• Manage file setup, packaging, and export requirements for different print outputs
• Understand and apply print production methods and constraints

Systems & Scalability

• Design templates and assets that are modular, reusable, and user-friendly
• Contribute to print design systems and best practices
• Ensure outputs work across multiple formats, sizes, and use cases

AI & Workflow Integration

• Use AI tools to accelerate ideation, variation, and production workflows
• Apply design judgement to ensure outputs meet quality and usability standards
• Explore ways to scale content production responsibly using AI

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with design, product, and print stakeholders
• Communicate design decisions clearly and concisely
• Actively participate in critiques and feedback loops
• Build strong working relationships across teams
• Generating AI audio that ships — music, SFX, and voice — with quality, clarity, and compliance at pace.
• Refining prompts and presets, managing evaluation sets, and aligning to style guides and guardrails.
• Building ingest-ready workflows (naming, metadata, rights, QA, rollback) with Ingest and Templates teams.
• Supporting discoverability through clear naming, tagging, and taxonomy design.
• Analysing data and feedback to improve audio quality, diversity, and effectiveness.
• Publishing reusable docs and playbooks to help others scale their workflows with confidence.
• Escalating any safety, rights, or consent concerns to appropriate teams with context and clarity.

You're probably a match if

Core Craft & Design

• Strong foundation in visual design fundamentals (typography, layout, colour, composition)
• Ability to create polished, production-ready design work
• Understanding of designing for templates and scalable systems

Print & Production Expertise

• Solid understanding of print processes and production workflows
• Experience preparing print-ready files (bleed, trim, colour profiles, resolution)
• Knowledge of pre-press, file setup, and export requirements
• Attention to detail in pre-flight and quality assurance

Tools & Workflow

• Proficiency in design tools (Adobe/Affinity, Prepress and Print Production Tools, Pantone and ICC Profiles, Generative AI Tools)
• Familiarity with file structures and production pipelines
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables efficiently

AI & Future-Ready Skills

• Emerging ability to use AI tools to support design workflows
• Understanding of how to balance AI efficiency with human craft and judgement
   

Other stuff to know

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Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

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