Product Designer, Education (Districts)

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.

One of the principles of our design team is to ‘show the future’. As designers we transport the rest of the company into a future we’re yet to build. A big part of the role of a product designer at Canva is to be a visionary—visualising and reinventing the future of design. 

Product designers at Canva take the dream and make it something everyone can relate to and rally behind. We start from the very early stages: finding the right problem to tackle, exploring ideas for how to solve it and then refining it into a coherent solution. Our product designers carry out research, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, and collaboration with our engineers to ship great products.  We are empathetic user advocates and respect our users’ opinions through interviews, usability testing, and data analysis, as well as wireframing, flowcharting, and journey mapping to show the different stages that customers go through as they come into contact with Canva.

The Education Product Team is on a mission to empower creativity in every learner. This year, our team is doubling down on a number of critical initiatives to help us achieve our company level strategy of driving teams and collaboration in Canva by helping districts efficiently onboard and manage their schools in Canva. We want to make Canva the tool that every team big and small wants to use to collaborate and communicate in everyday - from the classroom to the workplace.

So far we’ve launched a range of educational and collaboration capabilities but this is just the beginning of our journey. As a product designer joining the Education Product in the Teams Product group, you will help us drive towards making Canva a household name in every school.

We are searching for an experienced Product Designer to help us lead the design direction and UX strategy for our district experiences in Canva. This includes defining and delivering end-to-end experiences that empower our district admin users to bring their whole school district into Canva to empower creativity in every learner. Your sphere of ownership covers how our users:

Onboard: empowering district administrators in districts large and small to efficiently onboard multiple schools through our self serve tools

Report: refining our reports to give district administrators insight into how schools in their districts are using Canva and empower them to get maximum value from all our features

Integrate: Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are critical to teachers and administrators efficiently managing classwork and students in the classroom. You’ll design intuitive and simple integrations that make publishing work between Canva and LMSs easy

…plus more!

You will not only have the opportunity to optimise existing district experiences in Canva but also the opportunity to define new and innovative district experiences that truly empower creativity, work and learning. You will work with designers, product managers and engineers across the Education Team and the Teams Product Group, Businesses and Education Supergroup, and Canva, and have a team-focussed design mentality. You are excited for and have experience in leveraging every aspect of the human-centred design process to tackle challenging user problems and are comfortable collaborating with and influencing stakeholders across Canva to achieve alignment and buy-in.

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

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.