Canva
Computer Software
EngineeringManager-ElementsExperience
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“Engineering Manager - Elements Experience at Canva. Skills: Engineering leadership, AI, Content discovery. Lead Elements Experience team. Deliver AI-powered content features”
What You'll Achieve.
effortlessly find the content; empowers them to design; scaling fast; shipping the feature and keeping it healthy
Industry & Context.
unblock across the stack; make sound technical tradeoffs; sharper problem framing
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
experienced engineering leader, metrics-minded, product sensibility, strategic enough to set direction, hands-on enough to unblock team
Nice to Have
expert in all three (frontend, backend, ML), led engineers across disciplines, deeply curious about users, cross-functional partnerships
What You'll Do.
Lead Elements Experience team
Deliver AI-powered content features
Partner across Product
Contribute to architectural decisions
Use metrics and experimentation
Define success measures
Interpret signals from A tests
Maintain high bar for reliability
Drive features at intersection of AI and UX
Support and grow team
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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