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Own end-to-end production of locally relevant graphics and illustration content, establish visual direction, provide creative feedback, and shape AI-assisted production workflows. Use data, search signals, and market insights to identify opportunities, translate strategy into production plans, and ensure assets meet quality, metadata, and discoverability standards. Collaborate with regional and operational teams while sharing expertise across the Motion and Illustration team.

Own reliability for Canva’s highest-risk technical domains by writing production software for large-scale distributed systems. Responsibilities include improving sharding, resource utilization, resilience, observability, performance, and incident outcomes; debugging unfamiliar codebases; collaborating with product and infrastructure teams; mentoring engineers; and contributing shared platform capabilities. The role requires deep systems, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, distributed-systems, and production incident-response expertise.

Principal Production Engineer responsible for defining Canva’s production engineering practice, leading complex reliability engagements, and setting technical standards across the organization. The role involves improving large-scale distributed systems, shaping engagement and measurement models, influencing product roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and addressing challenges involving sharding, multi-region architecture, JVM performance, Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, observability, and incident response.

Lead Canva’s Embedded Production Engineering team, managing senior engineers who solve critical reliability, scalability, observability, data protection, and software safety challenges. Define the team’s operating model, prioritize high-impact engagements, influence engineering leaders across teams, establish reusable engineering standards, and develop senior technical leaders. The role requires strong software engineering, systems, cloud, reliability, and cross-organizational leadership experience.

Lead Canva’s Core IT function by setting strategy, building a global technology roadmap, developing high-performing teams, and improving workforce technology experiences. Oversee onboarding, device and access management, network infrastructure, campus technology, AI, and automation. Establish data-driven service measurement, represent IT with executive stakeholders, and ensure high-priority initiatives remain aligned and on track.

Create high-volume, short-form AI-generated videos from creative briefs, managing prompting, tool selection, iteration, visual direction, and end-to-end production. Build reusable prompt workflows, maintain quality and brand standards, identify safety and copyright risks, and provide structured feedback on AI video tools and model outputs. Stay current with emerging AI video technologies and contribute techniques to Canva’s scalable content production workflows.