Art Director, Canva
Visual Design
Publishing and design platform
Job no longer available
Publishing and design platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the world to design.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience as a Senior Designer or Art Director creating a diverse range of commercial designs
- Experience working directly with clients, able to take briefs and recognise clients needs
- Experience leading designers on individual projects, and providing professional support and development for junior and senior designers
- A love for design and creativity with a great eye for layout and the ability to work within brand guidelines
- The ability to write simple and clear briefs, with experience in seeing those briefs through with your team from start to finish
- A strong portfolio demonstrating your passion for designing clean, elegant, and beautiful designs
- The confidence to try new things, and a passion for big ideas and storytelling
- The ability to work with other Canva teams where needed to create quality and exciting templates
- The ability to work collaboratively in a creative team environment
- Diligence to hit deadlines, and offer suggestions to streamline and improve team processes
- Must have: Proficiency in visual design software including Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Google Slides, Powerpoint
- Must have: Proficiency in the building and executing of brand kits, including core elements around logo usage, color, typography, and brand assets
- Encouraged: Competency in Canva
- Understanding of Figma, Motion Design
What the job involves
- Communicating directly with exciting global clients and partners
- Providing strategic consultation on how a client can be most successfully integrated onto Canva
- Creating custom designs and campaigns for our clients
- Briefing and supporting senior and junior designers
- Providing feedback on designs to maintain top quality
- Partnering with copywriters, animators, production designers and other creatives to make sure template content suits the design
- Encourage design research, brainstorming, and design reference sessions with the team
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 benefits
- Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policies supporting all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
- Flexible leave options empowering you to recharge and thrive
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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