AddressCanva’s Commitment and Mission
At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you!
Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 100+ million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.
Join us and design your future.
About the Group you’ll be joining
The Teams & Education supergroup is on a mission to make Canva the tool that every team big and small wants to use to collaborate and communicate in every day.
Within the Teams & Education supergroup is the Design Productivity group and their mission is to power up design workflows to help everyone from kindergarten to the workplace grow and scale. This means empowering teams, workplaces, and classrooms to use Canva in new and exciting ways to achieve their goals - whether that’s creating a brand from scratch, launching their first website, scheduling content to social media, or generating hundreds of high-quality designs in a just a couple of clicks.
So far we’ve launched a range of capabilities to scale design needs but this is just the beginning of our journey. As the Product Design Group Lead joining the Design Productivity group, you'll help us drive towards making Canva a household name!
How You'll Make An Impact
- Coaching and Leadership. You'll coach and build relationships with your design team, supporting and growing their capabilities through honest feedback and guidance.
- Develop Canva’s design productivity experiences. You'll lead the design direction and UX strategy for how Canva can boost productivity through powerful data and insights and help teams of all kinds to stay on brand with brand kits and brand templates.
- Vision and Strategy. You'll clearly define the design vision, strategy and roadmap to your design team and senior stakeholders, creating clarity through your communication by making complex things simple.
- Scale the Product Design team. You'll plan for future design resourcing needs with the Teams and Education Supergroup Lead and Head of Design.
- Collaborate. Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to make sure you’re prioritising the most important features/experiences.
- Shape and establish design processes. You'll enable greater impact and efficiency across the team by driving design best practice.
- Ensure a high bar for design. Guide your designers always design to our high standards of simplicity and usability.
What You'll Bring
- Experience coaching Product Designers. You've led a small team of Product Designers and you're passionate about the development and growth of others, empowering them to achieve crazy big goals.
- End-to-end product design experience. You've designed and shipped multiple complex products or features across various platforms. Ideally, you have experience designing collaboration software for teams.
- Effective Communication Skills. You can confidently communicate future design direction with senior stakeholders, including founders, and inspire positive action within your team in order to bring the vision to life.
- User Centricity. You have a deep understanding of how to uncover user needs through research and user empathy.
- Passion for design team culture. Experience fostering an inclusive, open, and engaged culture.
- Engineering Literacy. You have experience working with Engineers on feasibility, detailed design and finding solutions to complex problems.
- Flexibility. Our growth means there are constantly new things to work on every day, so it’s likely that you’ll often be working across the board on new and innovative projects.
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Working at Canva
Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.
Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for permanent Canvanauts include:
- Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey. Hybrid work model (in-office & from home)
- Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development.. because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
- Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and Fitness & Meditation Classes.
- Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
Product Design Group Lead - Design Productivity
