Design & Creative Lead, Education Content

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you’re probably keen to find out what’s on offer, so we’ll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our flagship office is in Sydney, Australia, but we’ve made our way from down under, to a hub in San Francisco, which is now home to our US operations. We offer flexibility in how and where you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

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:

  • Establish Education’s long-term creative strategy across Product and Marketplace.
  • Manage and mentor a team of Content Creatives (prompters/designers, illustrators, motion storytellers)
  • Ensure quality while expanding Canva’s production funnels to scale education content
  • Oversee end-to-end content creation from concept to execution
  • Ensure all content meets learning, cultural, and accessibility standards
  • Collaborate with the Learning Experience group and i18n to align content to real classroom needs
  • Partner with Product teams to deliver new content features that support educators and learners
  • Build scalable creative frameworks and guidelines tailored for K–12 audiences
  • Establish creative frameworks, critique rituals, and quality standards that elevate craft across Education and influence adjacent content teams.
  • Defines what “great” Education content looks like at Canva
  • Builds reusable systems adopted at scale
  • Recognised go-to for craft standards in Education
  • Sets a clear and compelling creative vision for Education content that aligns multiple groups and establishes a shared language across Product, Curriculum, Marketing, and Content.
  • Drives alignment during ambiguous problem spaces, helping teams converge on clear creative direction and decision-making.
  • Sets expectations for responsible and effective AI use within Education creative workflows.”
  • Advocate for inclusive, age-appropriate design and representation
  • Use insights and data to iterate content effectiveness and relevance

You’re probably a match if:

Core requirements:

  • 6-10 years experience in a similar creative leadership role and a strong creative background with ability to develop creative strategies and direction for varied user types
  • Experience leading content creation with AI tools in creative workflows
  • Experience leading content creation across multiple formats (static, motion, interactive)
  • Experience translating data/user insights into creative decisions
  • Experience working with diverse stakeholder (and/or external partners)
  • Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing junior creatives (not just managing)
  • Experience with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
  • Experience contributing to hiring and team-building

Desired:

  • Experience designing for educational contexts, especially K-12
  • Education industry background highly desired

About the team:

We’re looking for a Design & Creative Lead, Education Content to guide the creative strategy, vision, and execution of Canva’s Education content ecosystem. This role acts as the creative authority for Canva’s Education Content – shaping the long-term creative vision for classroom-ready content, influencing group direction, and setting the standards for how Education content is created, scaled, and experienced across Canva.You will lead a multidisciplinary team of Content Creatives to produce outstanding, high-impact content for K–12 teachers, students, schools, and learning environments in Canva

This leader will be responsible for elevating the craft, clarity, inclusivity, and instructional value of Canva’s Education content marketplace, ensuring our resources, lesson materials, projects, worksheets, classroom visuals, activities, and interactive content help educators teach and students learn with confidence and creativity.

The Design Lead collaborates closely with Product, Curriculum, Data, Education Marketing, and the broader Content teams to ensure the Education content experience is world-class, aligned to learning needs, and deeply connected to Canva’s strategic goals for the global Education market.

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 range 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
  • Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
  • 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

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills, merit and business needs, in compliance with applicable local laws.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above – we still want to hear from you!

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.

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

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