Dutch Language Manager, Canva
Part Time FTC
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
- You’re a natural at writing clear, fun, and engaging content. You have experience with creative writing and/or design and you’re able to hit the perfect tone in multiple different contexts. You’re passionate about languages and cultures and you understand how these can impact people’s experience of a product. Above all else, you understand what speakers of Dutch need to be able to understand and use Canva
- You also love taking things from chaos to clarity — you’re a natural at understanding ambiguous, complex problems and communicating them simply to others. You also have the drive to see things through despite changes and setbacks. You’re equally comfortable discussing detail with engineers and ideas with product managers and designers. You’re great with tech (Atlassian project management tools, basic web development) and you write a meaty doc
- You understand the global user experience and how to improve it, ideally from experience working in a localisation/internationalisation environment within a SaaS company
- Copy-writing experience — you maintain a blog or, even better, you have experience in localisation for a SaaS product
- Some design experience
- A solid understanding of organic growth (SEO and Wordpress)
- Expertise with CAT tools (experience with Smartling gets full marks)
- Tertiary education in linguistics, literature, or localisation
What the job involves
- This is a part time (15-20 hour/week) contract role. You'll be working with a team of language owners as well as other stakeholders within Canva. On day one, you’ll begin creating Canva’s voice across all parts of the product in Dutch. You’ll translate key content and manage the relationship with our localisation partners for Dutch
- After 6 months you will have established relationships with key stakeholders in marketing, subscriptions, and content that will allow you to deploy your local expertise. You’ll have created processes and channels for communicating best practices and completing internal requests such as copy-writing, content review, and translation guidelines
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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