Canva
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2013
☁️ SaaS
📱 Media
📚 Education
💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09
SaaS • Media • Education
Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.
Head of Design Research
🕒 January 21
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Canva
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2013
☁️ SaaS
📱 Media
📚 Education
💰 $200M Venture Round on 2021-09
SaaS • Media • Education
Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.
📋 Description
• Team Lead - Lead, mentor, and grow the Design Research team—building research capability, fostering psychological safety, and developing consistent standards of excellence across evaluative and generative methods. • Future research - Craft and lead a design research strategy that informs product vision, company goals, and long-term opportunities in an AI era. • Close the Loop (evaluative) research - Drive streams of work to find and fix user issues across Canva’s product surfaces by identifying and close loops, and to ensure an objectively high quality bar. • Self-serve research - Enable product teams to confidently conduct their own research through training, templates, and shared frameworks - while maintaining a strong quality bar. • Sub-specialty lead - Evolve the Design Research sub specialty by strengthening methodologies, elevating craft standards, and integrating AI-assisted techniques that improve speed, quality, and scale. • Set and maintain a quality bar for design research - both via hands-on research, and coaching, training, processes, and oversight. • Autonomy & Decision Making: Sets direction for the group with clarity and confidence, defining priorities and navigating trade-offs across multiple teams, while aligning to strategic direction. • Lead communications to all relevant company goal stakeholders. • Drive prioritization so that this key resource is focused on the key priorities. • Insight Impact, Measurement and Communication - define and measure research success metrics. • Define and manage the research tool ecosystem - including AI-enabled platforms that improve insight generation, collaboration, and organizational understanding.
🎯 Requirements
• You're a Seasoned leader with deep expertise across generative, evaluative, and mixed-methods research • Motivated by shaping product strategy, elevating research craft, and integrating emerging AI capabilities into meaningful practice • AI research native, consistently learning and evolving skills as fast as the technology is unlocking capabilities • Skilled leader to ensure the team has the right strategy, quality bar, and delivery • Passionate about using research to drive business and product strategy to delight our community, from the most high level strategy all the way to specific product details • Strong stakeholder management and communications skills to partner with senior leaders and ICs across Product, Design, Engineering, and Data • Force multiplier to amplify the impact of research by unlocking Product teams across Canva to conduct their own research
🏖️ Benefits
• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
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