Jobs at Canva

Senior corporate counsel to lead complex securities matters, strategic M&A, cross-border expansion, board and governance advice, capitalization and equity programs, and to mentor and manage legal team and external counsel across jurisdictions.

Lead Canva-wide evaluation strategy for generative AI across design, image, video, audio, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable human-preference, learned quality, reward, and multimodal evaluation systems; connect metrics to user and business outcomes; establish launch gates and production monitoring; diagnose anomalous results; standardize evaluation globally; collaborate with model teams; mentor researchers and engineers; and represent Canva's evaluation direction externally.

Lead GTM strategy and sales operations for the Americas, partnering with senior Sales leaders to drive forecasting, performance management, planning, territory design, pipeline visibility, resource allocation, and commercial efficiency. Diagnose performance trends, build analytical models, lead business cadences, improve predictability, and translate complex data into executive recommendations. Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Customer Success, Revenue Systems, Data, and global GTM Operations to scale Canva’s B2B sales motion.

Lead 45-day enterprise implementations of Canva Enterprise: configure accounts (SSO/SAML, SCIM, domain verification), deliver tailored training, drive adoption to activation targets, manage timelines and stakeholders, and co-develop implementation processes with cross-functional teams to improve product and education resources.

Leads technical relationships with strategic AI platform partners, aligning partner needs with Canva engineering decisions. Shapes the external platform roadmap across MCP, REST APIs, Apps-in-Canva, and middleware PaaS; validates solutions through working code and prototypes; drives cross-team technical direction, product-line coherence, and flagship partner engagements. Requires deep platform engineering experience, modern AI ecosystem expertise, strong communication, and the ability to work across TypeScript, React, JavaScript, and Java codebases.

Leads Canva’s algorithmic strategy for content intelligence, discovery, and personalization. Owns the end-to-end roadmap, prioritizes ML and AI opportunities with business and engineering leaders, and drives recommendation, retrieval, intent inference, LLM-powered, and real-time personalization systems. Builds and grows multidisciplinary teams across ML research, engineering, data science, and product management while communicating complex technical tradeoffs to executives and aligning algorithmic innovation with product and business goals.

Support the Founder by managing a high-volume calendar, triaging meeting requests, coordinating stakeholders, preparing meeting materials, arranging travel, managing expenses and documentation, and organizing team events. The role requires a proactive, highly organized problem solver who can work confidentially and at pace while anticipating needs, improving processes, and using AI to make executive operations more efficient.

Lead regional physical security and workplace safety for the San Francisco campus: manage vendors, incident response and reviews, risk assessments, event security, compliance, and cross-functional preparedness to protect people, spaces and operations.

Lead personalization strategy and roadmap by defining, implementing, and refining ML-driven algorithms. Partner with engineers, researchers, designers, and data scientists to integrate AI/ML models, analyze user data, and drive engagement and retention through data-informed decisions and stakeholder communication.

Own reporting infrastructure, processes and systems for Corporate FP&A. Drive financial close, planning and reforecast cycles, GAAP/Non‑GAAP bridging, board and audit committee reporting, investor relations support, and partner with accounting, tax and treasury to deliver financial guidance and performance accountability.

As a Senior Research Engineer, you'll develop and evaluate AI-driven video generation tools, collaborating with teams to enhance creator experiences and push the boundaries of multimodal storytelling.

Lead execution of the IR program: create shareholder letters, investor presentations, and Q&A; run quarterly earnings process for private investors; manage investor and analyst relations, events, and CRM; coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and support CFO and leadership with investor communications and briefing materials.

Lead frontend work to design and build accessible Editor interactions: focus management, keyboard navigation, ARIA roles/states, and screen-reader debugging. Collaborate across teams to embed accessibility into architecture, review designs and PRs, identify systemic gaps, and co-design solutions with assistive-technology users.

Provide legal counsel on content safety, product and privacy for generative AI and digital products. Advise product and engineering teams on compliance with online safety, privacy, IP and AI regulations; develop safety policies, playbooks and scalable legal review processes; coordinate incident response and regulatory inquiries; monitor global regulatory developments and drive compliance projects; collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable product launches.

Lead and manage indirect tax compliance and accounting for the US, Canada and LATAM; deliver technical advisory on sales/use and digital services tax; drive automation and technology improvements; manage reporting for financial statements; assess and mitigate tax risks and partner cross-functionally to implement indirect tax strategies.

Lead and scale Canva's partner operations: own the PRM (Allbound), design partner workflows, manage deal registration and order processing teams, run contract and renewal operations, build forecasting and partner reporting, enable partner onboarding, and partner with Sales, Finance, Legal and RevOps to drive consistent, scalable partner motions and program governance.

16-week PhD research internship to build synthetic data pipelines and persona-conditioned user simulations for design agents. Design and run ML experiments, develop research code for data processing, training, and evaluation, measure distributional fit and realism gap, collaborate with eval, research, and product teams, and publish results when appropriate.

Lead a Finance-embedded data science and analytics team, own metric governance and single source of truth, maintain data models and pipelines for FP&A (including Anaplan feeds), improve financial data quality and automation, evolve finance data architecture with DBT and Snowflake, and partner with Finance leadership and the CFO to bring AI and automation into finance processes.

Provide commercial legal support embedded with GTM teams: draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, enterprise, public sector, and partner contracts; advise on government procurement, data privacy, AI regulations; build templates, playbooks, and enablement; and improve contracting processes while partnering with Sales, Finance, Security, and Privacy teams.

Lead 3–4 month enterprise implementations of Canva Enterprise: configure product, deliver tailored training, drive user adoption to achieve high engagement, and partner with customers and cross-functional teams to refine rollout processes and improve product and help-center experiences.