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What you’d be doing in this role

We’re building Canva Grow, one of Canva’s newest and most ambitious product groups. It’s the new surface inside Canva that brings data, insights, and creativity together to help millions of businesses grow.

Advertising is one of the most powerful economic engines in the world. Done well, it doesn’t just sell things, it keeps small businesses alive, funds jobs, and fuels entire economies. Good advertising connects people to products and services they genuinely like, helping local creators and entrepreneurs compete with global brands that once dominated through TV budgets and billboards.

That’s why we’re building tools that make advertising better, not louder. We want to help every business create work that’s more effective, more creative, and more respectful of people’s attention.

In this role, you’ll set the technical direction for Canva Grow. You’ll lead a team of talented engineers to build the systems and experiences that connect creation, data ingestion, performance insights, and optimisation, powering the end-to-end marketing flywheel that helps users plan, create, publish, learn, and grow, all inside Canva.

You’ll be laying the technical foundations for a brand-new product, setting new standards for how we build, scalable, reliable, and fast. You’ll work closely with product, design, and data to bring bold ideas to life, while coaching and inspiring engineers to do the best work of their careers.

Your work will have a global impact, shaping how millions of businesses turn insight into creative action, and helping Canva become the go-to platform for marketing worldwide.

Our goal is simple but ambitious: to build the last martech product ever built, a system that becomes the strongest feedback loop in marketing.

Your leadership will have a global impact: shaping how millions of businesses translate insights into creative action and helping Canva become the essential platform for marketing worldwide.

Technical Leadership

• Drive the technical strategy and architecture for Canva Grow, from data ingestion pipelines to creative generation systems.
• Keep our systems reliable, scalable, and lightning-fast.
• Lead design discussions, manage incidents when they happen, and keep tight guardrails around
• performance, reliability, and cloud costs.
• Advocate for technical concerns with non-technical stakeholders.

Strategic Planning

• Identify and evaluate new opportunities that move Grow forward.
• Write crisp proposals that help teams make clear, informed decisions fast.
• Partner across Canva to make sure we’re aligned with the wider company roadmap.

Team Health & Engineering Culture

• Build a culture that’s open, supportive, and ambitious.
• Coach emerging leaders and help engineers stretch into new challenges.
• Stay connected to the team through skip-levels, retros, and regular feedback loops.

People & Org Leadership

• Lead a mix of engineering managers and engineers directly.
• Shape team composition and move talent where it’s needed most.
• Own hiring, performance, and recognition for the Grow engineering team.
• Solid-line lead for frontend, backend, and in future machine learning engineering
• Dotted-line lead for data science, quality assistance, and technical program management
• Represent Grow’s technical voice in company-wide leadership syncs.

You're probably a match if

• You’re an engineering leader with a track record of guiding engineering teams to successful outcomes.
• You can coordinate multiple squads, align diverse stakeholders, juggle multiple workstreams, and unify various teams around a shared vision.
• You thrive when Coaching new leaders and fostering inclusivity across a team.
• You embrace ambiguity and can confidently make decisions when the path isn’t clear, bringing clarity and focus to complex challenges.
• You see things through to the finish line, taking ownership of outcomes and inspiring those around you to stay the course even when it gets tough.
• You’re an effective collaborator, communicating seamlessly with everyone from engineering to non-technical partners, to product and design teams.
• Ideally, you’ll bring a passion for the education space and a desire to help shape better learning experiences for everyone.

About the team

The group was born out of Canva’s acquisition of MagicBrief, a startup that specialised in creative analytics and marketing performance. We’ve kept that same startup DNA, moving fast, shipping often,and cutting out unnecessary processes where we can, while also embracing the best of Canva’s scale, craft, and culture. We couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity ahead of us to build the next generation of tools that help businesses all over the world scale with confidence.

As part of the leadership team within Canva’s Grow Group, you’ll work alongside George Howes (Founder and CEO of MagicBrief) and Charles Michel (MagicBrief’s Head of Operations), who bring deep creative, product, and growth experience into Canva’s next generation of marketing tools.

As one of Canva’s newest products, we’ve got the opportunity to build new systems and experiences from the ground up, with all the reach, infrastructure, and brand trust of Canva behind us. We have the rare and exciting opportunity to craft entirely new experiences and systems while leveraging Canva’s global reach and beloved brand. We couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity ahead of us to build the next generation of tools that help businesses all over the world scale with confidence.