Senior Technical Program Manager, Canva
Generative AI
+ 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 have 5+ years of TPM experience in a SaaS company
- You have experience in Generative AI/ML; working with research teams to productionize experiments is a plus
- You have a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and technical systems
- You have experience collaborating with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers on key initiatives
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
- You are an excellent communicator who leads through influence, not authority
- You are skilled at navigating complexity and solving ambiguous problems
- You are process-oriented but adaptable in your approach
- You are committed to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment
- You have a focus on continuous improvement for teams and personal growth
- You have demonstrated leadership in driving clarity, alignment, and accountability toward ambitious goals
- You are a strategic thinker who can also execute hands-on to deliver big outcomes
What the job involves
- Monitor delivery status across teams and projects
- Promote accountability for sustainable program delivery
- Support engineering leads with delivery practices during and after goal planning (sprint planning, estimations, capacity planning, etc.)
- Coordinate across research and product groups and prioritize opportunities
- Facilitate AI Research by helping product leaders integrate promising experiments
- Manage program risks, open issues, and dependencies
- Ensure consistency in planning, documentation, and practices across teams
- Facilitate effective decision-making and continual improvement rituals
- Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration
- Partner with Group Leadership to deliver high-priority, complex initiatives
- The mission of the AI Research group is to build and deliver world-leading generative AI technology to empower Canva’s users to be even more creative and productive
- Leveraging first party and third party models, we explore the AI frontier to find new ways to empower Canva’s customers to design
- This is an exciting and emerging problem space with weekly innovations
- Our close-knit team collaborates with engineers to prototype and develop new experiences, works with researchers to explore uncharted territories, and tackles some of today's biggest challenges
- We continuously improve our current offerings to create better ways for people to achieve their design dreams
- Our goal is to create magical, emotionally engaging AI experiences that charm, simplify complex tasks, and foster meaningful connections
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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