Curation Lead, Visual Content

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

About Visual Content
Canva’s in-house Visual Content team is on a mission to empower our users around the world by providing them with world-class, inspirational Templates and Elements that help them achieve their creative goals. 
We work from concept to creation on high quality, globally relevant, trend-setting creative across Canva’s product ecosystem (Presentations, Docs, Whiteboards, Social Media, Websites, Print, to name but a few!), Brand Partnerships, Seasonal and Cultural Campaigns, Education, and Diversity Initiatives.

Visual Content is responsible for setting the overall Creative Strategy and Direction for the content that sits within Canva’s library, entrusted with holding our content and its creators to the highest of standards. Our job is to ensure that our library provides end-to-end content solutions that enable our users, whether they be Professionals, Educators, or first-time Designers, with the tools they need to create beautiful designs. 

Our team partners with many stakeholders across the Canva organization, including Product, Marketing, and Search & Recommendations to devise, design and deliver creative content that showcases the very best of Canva’s products and services.

About the Role
Sitting within the Visual Content group, the Curation Lead will help establish a new Curation team that will identify and elevate the best of Canva’s content library, providing inspiration and utility to Canva’s global community of Designers and Creators. As representatives of Visual Content, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to grow and position the curated content experience on Canva, serve as the voice of Canva via regular curated editorial initiatives, and partner with Content Insights to provide reporting and thought leadership on trends and the evolution of design. 

You will establish and own Visual Content’s programming calendar, curating collections of lighthouse content around key cultural moments and Canva product tentpoles by identifying our best templates and elements to be showcased across a variety of on-platform surfaces. You will have a finger on the pulse on creative, digital, social and technological trends, and use that knowledge to ensure Canva is staying ahead of the curve and serving timely, relevant, high quality content to our users. 

Your collaboration with stakeholders across the company will enable Visual Content to surface high quality content across our Search, Marketing, and Marketplace touchpoints, working closely with Product to evolve the presentation and distribution of curated content across Canva. As well as content created by our In-House design team, you will partner with our Community teams to surface the best content delivered by our global network of Creators. 

We move fast here at Canva, and this role will certainly keep you on your toes. We are looking for someone who loves to get stuff done. You’re who we want to work with if you can balance your brilliant creative streak with ruthless prioritization that moves projects rapidly along.

We believe in attracting and nurturing world-class talent with a focus on diversity, community, career development – and doing the best work of our lives.

What you’ll do:

• • Own Visual Content’s Curation Strategy, this includes its development, implementation and continual optimisation
  • Compose and manage a programming calendar of key seasonal, cultural, and strategic moments in order to serve users, amplify creators, and support cross-functional priorities.
  • Curate a diverse array of evergreen collections to showcase the best of Canva content and improve utility and output from our community of designers.
  • Monitor and report on content and design trends, in concert with Insights and Community teams, and evangelize internally, serving as a key resource and advocate for quality design.
  • Collaborate with Visual Content’s Strategic and Craft Leadership to develop and identify our best content for elevation and promotion (across in-house, creators, & partnership libraries), and work with the team to use Curation to deliver on Content goals.
  • Provide thought leadership on the evolution of design, partner on building a vision for the future of content on Canva, and serve as the voice of Canva in bringing this vision to our entire community of users.
  • Collaborate with Product to develop new ways of curating, editorializing, and surfacing aspirational content to our users.
  • Leverage curation to educate Canva users on new products, toolsets, features, and trends.
  • Promote content diversity, authenticity and safety in order to serve the full Canva community and drive Canva values.

What we’re looking for

• • Be an expert on design culture and trends and ensure that Canva content remains current and relevant.
  • Have extensive previous experience in curation and editorialisation of Digital Media and Creative Content.
  • Have an acute understanding of the different content needs across our products and user groups, leveraging that knowledge to deliver curated sets of content that enables those users to achieve their tasks efficiently and at high quality.
  • A senior leader who is comfortable communicating and engaging with Canva leadership, organizational stakeholders, and growing, coaching and mentoring a team of editorially minded individuals.
  • A keen eye for what makes great design, and an ability to curate content that helps educate our users on new ways to create digital content.
  • An ability to interpret user trends and data, working collaboratively with our Content Strategy and Insights team to use that insight to bring our editorial and curated content to life in a timely fashion.
  • Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

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. 

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