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Innovation Design Lead

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We’re constantly working towards making Canva the best place to work, for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community all around the world. We celebrate uniqueness and whatever makes you, you and encourage everyone who wants to help us transform the way the world designs, to join us on this journey. We value all different types of experiences. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you.  

About Us
At Canva, our mission is to democratise design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform. Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the world, one design at a time. 

Since launch in August 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 60 million monthly active users across 190 different countries who have created more than 6 Billion designs. We are one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies and we have only achieved about 1% of what we want to do.

Content Production Team

The Content Team’s mission is to make sure that the content in Canva is the best overall quality library of resources available. Its mission is to create gorgeous, high-quality, highly usable, on trend and relevant content to fulfill every user’s need and to become the go-to place for all things related to design, for both our inhouse designers and our global users. 

Team Lead Role 

You’ll have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of production projects, the freedom to influence team goals, and the chance to build and mentor an amazing team. You will be working closely with creative leads to innovate visual solutions for the Canva content library. The ability to distill creative ideas into a well-articulated direction and lead the execution throughout all phases of each season will be the key to success in this role. The team lead will act as the gatekeeper of the creative and content objectives for your Team, and be seen as the guiding light for your Squads’ visual representation and company impact.

Creative Direction

  • Expansion of art direction 
  • Consistently improve the quality of output to align with the Content Vision
  • Research:
  • General design research
  • User research - how is this related to our users design 
  • Cultural research - aware of what’s going on and where it’s happening 
  • trend research (with photos as the format focus)
  • different styles and different directions  
  • Photographic techniques and post treatments
  • Upskilling the team on how to carry out research
  • Upskilling team on how to incorporate research into work and briefs
  • Running education workshops internally and externally
  • Bring new style, flair and approach to templates at canva 
  • Spot trends before they happen and have the library stocked with content ready for users and our template designers
  • Work closely with the templates team to:
  • Acquire appropriate and diverse photography
  • Provide the best content to them
  • Expand their skills in template design
  • Encourage them to push boundaries
  • Health check the value of production requests

Project/People management

  • Ability to improve team processes, documentation and operations
  • Encourage efficient and effective teamwork
  • Maintain great team morale 
  • Be a supportive leader 
  • Build growth plans for Creative lead and support them in their own mentoring tasks across Squads.
  • Leading by doing, get your hands on the tools when you need to and work with the team
  • Support your Creative lead on project deadlines
  • Arrange work to meet team goals
  • Clearly outline critical paths and responsibilities
  • Work towards and project a season budget with Template Team Lead

Communication

  • Work with product designers and product managers to ensure content is surfaced in Canva in the best way possible
  • Ability to close the loop on projects with stakeholders
  • Ability to confidently communicate to stakeholders and other teams
  • Internally advertise groups output (presentations at stand ups, company meets and season reporting)
  • Be flexible and proactive, able to troubleshoot with engineers and work with product managers
  • Confident to reach out, interview and discuss project needs with freelancers and partners.
  • Actively build up resources for the team as well as individual team members' skill set.
Canva Information

Canva is currently one of Australia’s hottest technology startups and has been ranked Australia’s #1 place to work.
We mean it when we say we want to create a workplace that you love coming to. Our culture is unlike anywhere else and our offices are designed with workspaces for every mood, to help you do great work. At Canva you can be part of a company that is growing rapidly, building a product that users really love.
Psst -We have two in-house chefs that whip up amazing breakfasts and lunches for the whole team - check out what's cooking at: https://instagram.com/canvalife 
Being a Force for good.

One of our core values at Canva, “Being a force for good” means we are actively working towards a world that isn't just good for a small few, but one that’s good for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community. To achieve this, we need to constantly work towards making Canva the best place to work, for everyone.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. If you’re keen to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.  
Questions & answers for this position
  • What is the type of contract for this position?
    The contract for this position is a Full-time contract
  • Is telecommuting possible for this position?
    No, telecommuting is not possible for this position
About Canva
Canva is an Australian graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content.
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2012
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1K-5K employees

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