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Own the global sales incentive platform, compensation data, payout processes, reporting, quarterly business reviews, and plan delivery. Lead audits, reconciliations, complex calculations, dashboards, executive presentations, governance, and cross-functional projects. Ensure incentive systems are reliable, data is accurate, plans are delivered on time, and recurring issues are resolved at their source.

Lead go-to-market strategy and operations for the Americas sales organization. Partner with senior Sales leaders on forecasting, performance management, pipeline reviews, planning, territory and capacity design, segmentation, resource allocation, and sales-model evolution. Analyze commercial performance, identify risks and growth opportunities, translate data into executive recommendations, and coordinate with Finance, Revenue Systems, Data, Customer Success, and global GTM Operations to improve predictability, efficiency, and scalable execution.

Lead Canva’s AI technology partnership strategy and senior relationships with major AI and platform companies. Own engagements from strategy and negotiation through launch, integration, and scale. Collaborate across product, engineering, design, marketing, legal, sales, and operations to deliver product and go-to-market outcomes. Analyze partner performance, identify monetization and growth opportunities, shape Canva’s extensibility platforms, and drive adoption, revenue, and customer-segment penetration.

Develops and optimizes paid-social creative across Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and other channels. Responsibilities include creating concepts, hooks, scripts, copy, carousels, UGC-style videos, and direct-to-camera content; directing shoots; editing short-form video; analyzing performance metrics; testing creative variations; and partnering with marketing, strategy, and media teams to improve conversion and build repeatable creative playbooks.

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.

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.

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.

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.