Events & Partnerships Lead, Canva
Europe
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 have 10 years+ experience brokering partnerships, sponsoring and building events across Europe, ideally within a start up/scale up environment
- You have a proven track record of delivering successful commercial partnerships with brands that would serve as a good fit for Canva
- You have experience working within the SME / Knowledge Worker & Consumer space (MLB/Enterprise is a plus)
- You enjoy designing commercial structures, yet appreciate the critical need for brand synergy
- You have executed Owned Events & Paid Event Sponsorships, aligned to strategic goals at various stages of the Marketing funnel
What the job involves
- As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve
- Paving the way for Events & Partnerships to contribute to Europe Marketing’s Crazy Big Goals, namely strong MAU growth and driving consideration of Canva as a tool for work
- Building structure around our Events & Partnerships plans, building frameworks and playbooks to ensure maximum impact, relevance and execution quality
- Acting as main POC in key partnership conversation, working in close partnership with local Growth Marketing Managers to ensure on the ground execution feels ‘truly local’
- Managing partnership commercials closely, leading negotiations and ensuring cross functional stakeholders (Finance, Sales etc) integrated into planning as needed
- Planning with Canva’s ‘Two Step Plan’ in mind, always looking for opportunities for our partnerships and activations to serve as a Force For Good
- Primarily focused on a B2C audience, but maintaining a close partnership with Canva’s B2B team to ensure partnership with Event owners are aligned to regional strategic priorities in order to drive maximum impact and brand exposure from every dollar invested
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.
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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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