Strategic Account Executive, Canva
French Speaker
+ Equity
Publishing and design platform
Job no longer available
Publishing and design platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the world to design.
Role
Who you are
- You've got 8+ years of experience along with experience working with large strategic corporations
- For our Strategic role, we are looking for people with experience with large named accounts ideally on a global scale (10,000+ employees). Ideally within a technology company, demonstrating a history of top performance
- Native French Speaking - this role will cover the FR/BE regions
- You have proven success managing a full sales cycle, including prospecting with a focus on new logo attainment
- You’re a pro at navigating complexity by understanding and addressing complex business challenges, crafting solutions
- You've got a talent for creating detailed plans that cover all the bases within intricate organizations
- You've got the skills to captivate an audience, especially during face-to-face meetings with multiple key players
- You've got a track record of leading successful (and complex) negotiations
- You're comfortable navigating uncertainty and can keep up in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Our Account Executives work closely with our customers to understand their goals and provide tailored solutions to meet their needs
- We're teaming up with colleagues across the board - from Product to Marketing - all supporting our sales team
- As we branch out into new markets and develop fresh Enterprise solutions, we're crafting something truly unique. Together, we're redesigning work
- Account Planning: You will lead with a data-driven approach to identify and reach out to potential customers who are likely to benefit from Canva's products. Analyze market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities
- Managing Pipeline + Revenue Growth: You will manage pipeline, revenue forecasts, sales activity using Salesforce for maximum efficiency and visibility
- Customer Centric: You will leverage compelling storytelling and vision transfer, presented through a creative lens, to guide customers on a journey that feels personalized and right for them
- Be a product expert: Exhibit a deep love for Canva’s product and an ability to sell creative solutions that address customers’ unique problems. You will gather customer feedback and convey market needs to inform the Product roadmap and provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience
- Foster long-term relationships: Recognize the value of building long-term relationships and strive to create lasting partnerships both with customers and internal cross functional teams (Product, Eng, Post-Sales, Customer Success)
- Bring chaos to clarity: Simplifying complex situations into digestible customer-ready stories and materials using Canva’s worksuite (presentations, doc etc.)
Application process
- Please note that interviews are conducted virtually
Our take
Launched in 2013, Canva is a free online visual communications and design platform. It features a vast range of templates including presentations, websites, and social media graphics, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips.
With the aim to empower 100% of the world to communicate in ways that were once limited to the 1%, Canva was founded on the belief that people shouldn’t need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. Simplicity is central to Canva’s offering, its straightforward drag-and-drop user interface avoiding complex tools that require training. This approach has been hugely popular and has been key in setting the company apart in the market, with over 90% of the Fortune 500 now using the site.
More recently, Canva has broadened its offerings through a number of acquisitions and now offers a full visual communications platform, featuring stock content, innovative editing features, and data visualization. Zeetings, Pexels & Pixabay, Kaleido, Smartmockups and Flourish have all joined Canva, and the business is well set to continue leading and innovating in the space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
May 2024
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $968.6m
Company HQ
Surry Hills, NSW
Leadership
Cameron Adams
(Co-Founder & CPO)Cameron studied at the University of Melbourne before working as a Developer and Designer for Eclipse and Google for a combined 5 years. They then founded Fluent.io in 2011, and Canva in July 2012.
Melanie Perkins
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at the University of Western Australia, Melanie first founded Fusion Books in 2007 and and co-founded Canva in 2012. Melanie is now CEO of Canva.
Cliff Obrecht
(Co-Founder & COO)Having studied at the University of Western Australia, Cliff spent 5 years as Managing Director of Fusion Books. They left this role in 2013, having co-founded Canva with Melanie and Cameron the previous year.
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