Creative Director, Canva
Europe
Equity available
Publishing and design platform
Job no longer available
Publishing and design platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Equity available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the world to design.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who has experience delivering world-class creative across a variety of channels across multiple European markets, and has a vision for how we bring our brand pillars to life in a way that feels truly local to every market we are in
- We’re looking for someone who can lead a team, and comfortable leaning into the nitty gritty of the work
- At least 10 years’ experience of agency and in-house consumer marketing experience, as an emerging creative leader who has successfully delivered growth results across channels
- Experience working on brand and performance campaigns for direct-to-consumer tech brands at scale, delivering high volume and global production efforts
- Proven experience working across different European markets (especially France and Germany), and utilising local insights to deliver locally relevant and highly impactful creative
- Proficient understanding of creative across channels, social platform best practices, and user acquisition KPIs
- Excellent design craft and copywriting skills, and a portfolio that shows experience with Creative, particularly performance work
- Excellent verbal and visual communication skills, allowing you to communicate complex information simply and clearly
- You’ve led creative teams and know what it takes to inspire and grow them
- You thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment that requires the ability to problem solve, drive chaos to clarity, and maintain personal resilience
- You’re an energy giver with a positive outlook. A natural empathetic teammate, with a consistent track record of cross-functional leadership and partnership
What the job involves
- Reporting into the Head of Marketing for Europe, we’re hiring a Creative Director to oversee our creative efforts in Europe
- As the Creative Director, you’ll be the custodian of the Canva brand in Europe - balancing brand guardianship with insightful local expression
- This is an incredible opportunity to lead the definition of our brand and creative in Europe
- As part of the International Marketing Group, our Europe Marketing team for driving market-specific growth goals and comprehensive market strategies across Europe across a variety of functions - performance marketing, brand, events, partnerships, social, community engagement and other growth channels
- You’ll be the custodian of Canva’s brand in Europe - through deep alignment with our Executive Creative Director and our central creative group, you’ll set the vision of how we show up in each market in a way that reflects the Canva brand and feels truly local
- You’ll define and maintain the creative fabric that runs across each external touch point our brand has with our community in Europe
- This could range from partnerships and events, community building, social, webinars, performance marketing, brand marketing, talent brand and any other local initiatives
- We’re just getting started in Europe, so the range of what you’ll work on will grow and expand
- You’ll work at the crossroads of creativity, data and innovation
- Partnering with our Growth Managers, Product Marketers and Researchers to build a robust creative testing process, you’ll leverage performance data to steer creative output and test new messaging and positioning hypotheses based on local insights; doubling down on those that are working
- You’ll oversee all creative production in Europe, balancing how we utilise in-house, agency and freelance resources as efficiently and effectively as possible
- As part of this, you’ll lead, mentor and motivate a talented in market team as it grows, including copywriters and art directors, inspiring them to constantly push the boundaries of creative effectiveness
- And lastly, you will get to work with a broad range of experienced marketers and stakeholders from across Canva’s global team to create creative that achieve our Crazy Big Goals for Europe
Application process
- Please note that interviews are conducted virtually
Salary benchmarks
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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