Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work — we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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.
About the team
You'll join the Elements Experience team in the Content & Discovery Supergroup. We’re on a mission to help every user effortlessly find the content that empowers them to design. Whether it’s billions of templates, images, videos or designs — we make it discoverable. Our impact spans inspiration to creation, and we’re scaling fast.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Leading our Elements Experience team, a balanced squad of frontend, backend, and ML engineers, to deliver AI-powered content features across Canva's editor, including features like style match, style filters, and other AI-powered content features across Canva surfaces
Setting the technical vision for how millions of users discover, explore, and apply visual content from browsing and filtering to AI-driven style recommendations and contextual surfacing
Partnering across Product, Design, and platform teams while contributing hands-on to architectural decisions and mentoring engineers through code and design reviews
Using metrics and experimentation to drive decisions, defining success measures, interpreting signals from A/B tests and usage data, and building a team culture where curiosity about user behaviour shapes what gets built next
Maintaining a high bar for reliability, performance, and operational health across the team's services, while driving features at the intersection of AI and UX including model-powered interactions and reward models
Supporting and growing a high-performing team of ~7 engineers across disciplines, with a strong culture around craft, accountability, and genuine curiosity about the problems users are trying to solve
You're probably a match if:
You're an experienced engineering leader comfortable spanning frontend, backend, and ML, you don't need to be expert in all three, but you ask the right questions, unblock across the stack, and make sound technical tradeoffs
You've led engineers across disciplines and get genuine energy from developing people alongside products, coaching, growing careers, and building team culture matter to you as much as shipping
You're metrics-minded and deeply curious about users, you reach for data and experimentation to validate hypotheses, dig into qualitative and quantitative signals, and channel that curiosity into sharper problem framing for your team
You have a strong product sensibility, care about operational excellence, and do your best work in cross-functional partnerships with PMs, designers, and ML engineers — shipping the feature and keeping it healthy are the same job to you
You're strategic enough to set direction and hands-on enough to unblock your team in code
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard – and we do – but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connection and fun woven throughout life at Canva.
Here’s a taste of what’s on offer:
• Equity packages – we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge, and support you personally
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world.
Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%.
We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.
