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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. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.
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.
Product Management @ Canva
The mission of Product Managers at Canva is to create the most accessible design tool for every person in the world. We believe that we can improve the world by empowering everyone to design and communicate visually. As a Product Manager at Canva you help set this vision, define what that future looks like, and build the products and features that get us there.
Product Managers collaborate with Canva’s founders to set the strategic direction, scope, and success metrics for product initiatives. We work across teams of designers, software engineers, marketers and analysts to ensure we're delivering an exceptional experience to all our users. We are responsible for implementing and collaborating on product strategy, road mapping, and prioritisation as our product grows. It’s our responsibility to see products through their entire lifecycle—from concept through to validation, build, post-launch analytics and iterations.
About the group and team
The Teams & Education supergroup is on a mission to power up design to enable learning, creativity, collaboration, and productivity. Canva’s subscription products including Pro, Teams, Education, and Nonprofits are all product led from within the Teams & Education supergroup as well as all core teams experiences such as content management and collaboration. The Teams & Education supergroup wants to make Canva the tool that every team - big and small - wants to use to collaborate and communicate in every day - from the classroom to the workplace.
Within the Teams & Education supergroup is the Collaboration group. The Collaboration group is on a mission to power creativity, work, and learning with collaborative design. In 2023, the Collaboration group is doubling down on a number of critical initiatives to help us achieve our company-level strategy of driving teams and collaboration in Canva. So far we’ve launched a range of communication, real-time, sharing & publishing capabilities but this is just the beginning of our journey. As the Group Product Lead for the Collaboration Group, you will help us drive towards making Canva a household name in every team.
About the candidate
You can dream up a vision, set a product strategy and bring teams together to create and deliver a roadmap that requires multiple teams and groups to support. You thrive in a collaborative fast-paced environment, working with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and everyone else in between. You have experience scaling a team during hyper-growth, and coaching a team of multiple product managers and your communication skills empower you to inspire your teams to dream and achieve crazy big goals.
You love to take green-field opportunities and build solutions, teams & processes to solve them. Living and breathing all things growth, you make data-informed, strategic decisions and deliver on them to lead your team to great results.
Responsibilities
- Product Strategy - Own our cross-company Collaboration product roadmap..
- Collaborating with leadership peers across Canva to shape and drive the highest impact roadmap possible
- Product Execution - Coordinate our team(s) to deliver on this roadmap, diving into product manage initiatives where required.
- Subject Matter Expertise - Become an internal subject matter expert on the needs of all collaborating users, from Kindergarten to CEO.
- Decision Making - Drive key decisions needed to be made toward our Teams Dream strategy.
- Prepare and present decision decks and drive alignment with founders.
- GTM - Partner with our Sales & Marketing on go-to-market, ensuring all of our insights and opportunities are feeding back into our Product & Growth roadmaps, and ultimately doing whatever it takes to hit our growth goals.
- Operational Excellence - Partner with Program Management to ensure we are building a world-class, high-performing team of cross-functional experts from Product, Sales & Marketing.
- Lead cross-group product initiatives to solve big business problems that require many different product teams across Canva to come together and execute on.
- Group Leadership - lead the Collaboration group and foster and nurture Canva’s culture within the group.
- Oversee the planning process and coordinate the efforts of a cross-functional team to maintain a happy healthy team that sets crazy big goals and achieves them.
- Coaching - Coach a team of Product Managers to achieve their business and personal development goals, strengthening the product management discipline at Canva as a whole
Experience you'll have
- You have 8+ years of experience in a product management role; in a product-led B2B SaaS company or collaborative tech start up preferred.
- You have experience coaching Product Managers to deliver on the strategy and build their key craft areas.
- You have 2+ years of experience coaching 3 or more product managers.
- You are constantly motivating those around you through your passion and drive for what you do and keep everyone on track, ensuring everyone’s doing their best.
- You can rally the team to work together and make sure everyone is working effectively to reach their goals.
- You are a leader with proven success in navigating restructures or times of change for their org.
- Proven ability to build a thriving inclusive culture in their group
- You love solving ambiguous business problems, and building solutions, processes and teams around them.
- Data, experimentation and AB testing is your second language
- You feel at home when using data to make decisions—whether that’s analytics, user research, survey feedback, or in-person user testing.
- When presented with competing imperatives and a mountain of data, you can identify and organize clear, concise actions, arriving at appealing and practical solutions to problems
- Your growth skills are sharp but so is your eye for a great core product experience
- You love jamming with the Marketing team on a new campaign idea, and jumping in on Sales calls to learn the challenges & aspirations of our customers.
- You have a strong background and passion for user experience, ensuring quality solutions down to the details
- You are a clear communicator and excellent presenter, ideally with a record of making presentations in large forums
- You pride yourself on being an owner and getting projects from ideas to live as quickly as possible!
- You move ideas from the chaos of brainstorming and mock-ups to the clarity of execution and impact.
- You thrive on being in the middle of a cross-functional team, wearing lots of hats and doing whatever it takes to help your team and the business succeed.
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, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
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 supports you personally
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
