Senior Privacy Counsel, Canva
EMEA
+ 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 a strong technical background, a deep understanding and demonstrated experience in EU/UK privacy regulations, and have been advising on privacy preferably at or for rapidly growing technology companies or a law firm with technology clients
- You have experience working in a global company with legal teams and stakeholders based in different jurisdictions
- You have a good understanding of AI, are familiar with the DSA and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) preferred
- You are excited to roll up your sleeves. You’re a “do-er” that can work in a fast paced environment and are able to find the answers if you don’t have them
- You understand tech and want to learn more about what happens “under the hood” on complex data analytics, tracking, “martech” and data sharing processes
- You are a pragmatic, business minded lawyer who wants to help build our business
- You are risk aware, not risk averse, can work independently and have the confidence to make judgement calls in ambiguous situation
- You know the law, but are conscious of industry practices and enforcement trends
- You are able to influence stakeholders to prioritise compliance and have experience doing this with leaders and stakeholders across areas such as product, engineering and education technology
- You are focussed on delivering projects even where this calls for you to go beyond the role of legal advisor and you’re not afraid to hustle other teams and individuals to get things done
- You are a collaborative team player committed to working together to achieve business goals
What the job involves
- Canva is seeking a Senior Privacy Counsel who will be primarily responsible for supporting Canva Group’s privacy goals across EMEA
- The role will be part of the Privacy and Product Team and will support privacy goals across the business
- You will play a key role in delivering our strategy to design anything and publish everywhere, and launching the next generation of exciting Canva Products
- Supporting and advising on the compliance privacy strategies for Canva and its EMEA businesses
- Providing specialist privacy advice on compliance with EU/UK data protection laws and regulations
- Working closely with other Canva business functions to develop internal policies and programs to drive privacy awareness and compliance
- Assisting with the assessment and resolution of data incidents (we have an on-call roster)
- Advising on privacy, including through the completion of Privacy Impact Assessments, Jira tickets and queries to our privacy channel
- Being the eyes and ears for the legal team and refer out matters to other legal specialities where required, including employment, commercial and intellectual property specialists
- Advising on data processing agreements with vendors, due diligence and high risk Transfer Impact Assessments
- You will join a dynamic, global legal team working on a variety of innovative technologies with interesting legal considerations
- You will be required to leverage your expertise, good judgment and strong business sense to make complex laws simple and assist swift decision-making in our fast paced environment
- You will be challenged to look at the big picture to find innovative ways and product solutions to drive product compliance in a fast-paced, growth focussed environment
- You’ll help Canva see around corners to prepare for upcoming regulatory changes and influence how the business responds to those changes
- You’ll work to ensure Canva’s products continue to delight our community and meet our goals, whilst also keeping users safe and meeting community and regulator expectations
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 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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