Canva

Computer Software

EngineeringManager-ElementsExperience

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Engineering Manager - Elements Experience at Canva. Skills: Engineering leadership, Frontend, Backend, and ML expertise, Technical vision setting, Mentoring engineers, Data-driven decision making, Team building and development. Leading our Elements Experience team, a balanced squad of frontend, backend, and ML engineers, to deliver AI-powered content features across Canva's editor, including features like style match, style filters, and other AI-powered content features across Canva surfaces. Se”

Industry & Context.

Computer Software
Problems you'll solve

make sound technical tradeoffs; unblock across the stack; dig into qualitative and quantitative signals; sharper problem framing for your team

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

experienced engineering leader comfortable spanning frontend, backend, and ML, led engineers across disciplines, metrics-minded and deeply curious about users, product sensibility, operational excellence, cross-functional partnerships with PMs, designers, and ML engineers, strategic enough to set direction, hands-on enough to unblock your team in code

Nice to Have

expert in all three (frontend, backend, ML)

What You'll Do.

Leading our Elements Experience team

a balanced squad of frontend

to deliver AI-powered content features across Canva's editor

including features like style match

and other AI-powered content features across Canva surfaces

Setting the technical vision for how millions of users discover

and apply visual content from browsing and filtering to AI-driven style recommendations and contextual surfacing

Partnering across Product

and platform teams while contributing hands-on to architectural decisions and mentoring engineers through code and design reviews

Using metrics and experimentation to drive decisions

defining success measures

interpreting signals from A tests and usage data

and building a team culture where curiosity about user behaviour shapes what gets built next

Maintaining a high bar for reliability

and operational health across the team's services

while driving features at the intersection of AI and UX including model-powered interactions and reward models

Supporting and growing a high-performing team of ~7 engineers across disciplines

with a culture around craft

and genuine curiosity about the problems users are trying to solve

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering across Product, Design, and platform teams; cross-functional partnerships with PMs, designers, and ML engineers

Full Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be time-consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work — we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. What you'd be doing in this role 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. About the team You'll join the Elements Experience team in the Content & Discovery Supergroup. We’re on a mission to help every user effortlessly find the content that empowers them to design. Whether it’s billions of templates, images, videos or designs — we make it discoverable. Our impact spans inspiration to creation, and we’re scaling fast. At the moment, this role is focused on: * Leading our Elements Experience team, a balanced squad of frontend, backend, and ML engineers, to deliver AI-powered content features across Canva's editor, including features like style match, style filters, and other AI-powered content features across Canva surfaces * Setting the technical vision for how millions of users discover, explore, and apply visual content from browsing and filtering to AI-driven style recommendations and contextual surfacing * Partnering across Product, Design, and platform teams while contributing hands-on to architectural decisions and mentoring engineers through code and design reviews * Using metrics and experimentation to drive decisions, defining success measures, interpreting signals from A/B tests and usage data, and building a team c

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