Design

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New frontiers

Canva's 225+ million monthly active users come from all walks of life. From teachers and students, to entrepreneurs and not-for-profits, our users have a wide range of needs. That’s part of what makes Design such an exciting team to work in. Our love and respect for our communities, combined with our mission to empower the world to design, fuels us to keep pushing through new frontiers.

While we’ve been growing we’ve remained committed to maintaining our high bar of user experience quality - constantly challenging ourselves to find new ways to make design simple. Our talented team continues to deliver outstanding, diverse design content that keeps people coming back for more. When you join Canva, you’ll be learning from some of the world’s best designers and product experts.

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Shape the future of design

And while we’ve been rapidly building our team, we’ve been working hard to keep our structure relatively flat. That means less red tape and more opportunities to help shape our path, own your part of the product, and deliver some really exciting features that will genuinely shape the future of design. (We’re getting excited just typing this).

Over 30 billion designs have already been created in Canva to date, and we’re only just getting started. Try it for yourself and see what all the fuss is about.

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I was so excited and honoured to help launch our fund to establish safe and ethical AI practices in Canva.

The work was recognised by the EU as an example of what responsible generative AI could look like. The creative community is the heart of what I love about Canva, and it was so important to me to be able to work towards setting better standards.

Sally Woellner (She/Her) Supergroup Design Lead - Content & Discovery, Australia

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Figuring out how to structure and store content in a way that our AI products provide relevant and truthful answers in helping our experience.

My role involves working closely with design, product and machine learning engineers to understand new and complex problems. We've built an amazing practice and culture around our people and our craft. Our work positively impacts millions of people around the world who use Canva each day. We're the advocates of simplicity and clarity in the way we communicate with people in the product.

Sally Bagshaw (She/Her) Head of Content Design, Australia

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Navigation from chaos to clarity is the nature of my job.

We work in cycles with ambitious goals. While we know what we want to achieve, there are always uncertainties. I bring clarity into chaos by helping the team break down things and prototype experiences. When features get shipped, I can actually see the impact which is always exciting.

Jakob Kolar (He/Him) Group Design Lead, Austria

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A Content Designer's job is to make Canva feel simple, even as we add lots of bells and whistles to the product.

This is a job that's never finished, and it's full of exciting challenges! Building a team of over 20+ Content Designers to face this challenge is what I'm most proud of in my career.

Amelia Marshall (She/Her) Content Design Lead, London

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I kicked off my journey as a Product Design Lead. Over time, fueled by my passion for people, processes, and team building, I've expanded into the Product Design Operations subspecialty.

A key part of my role involves collaborating closely with our Talent Acquisition team to hire and bring on board the fantastic people in our team. This responsibility has provided me with a wealth of insights and learnings about building and developing teams. Since I joined, Canva has expanded from 15 to 150 Product Designers—a journey I'm truly thankful to be a part of.

Hugo Welke (He/Him) Product Design Ops - Subspecialty Lead, Australia

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It's not every day you get to collaborate with world-class talent in supercharging Canva's global growth.

Being part of the creative team in Canva means we get to do cross-border collaboration in producing high-performing marketing campaigns. We are constantly challenged to innovate, unlock the next breakthrough and deliver value at scale.

Jay Santos (He/Him) Head of Creative, Growth Marketing, Philippines