Canva
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.
Machine Learning Engineering Manager – AI Platform
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October 31
Canva
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
• Partner with AI research leadership to understand research roadmaps and proactively identify platform capabilities needed for upcoming initiatives • Coordinate with platform capability teams (Inference, Evaluation, Dataset & Training) to ensure seamless researcher experience across the full ML lifecycle • Owning and driving the delivery of large, cross-team, and cross-group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion, with autonomy and independence of decision making • Coaching a team of 6+ engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively help them reach their personal growth goals • Owning the team’s development methodology and rituals such as sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives • Collaborating with the Product Manager to understand and contribute to the roadmap • Plan goals and define success metrics to ensure there is alignment between the company, group, and teams • Champion a culture of knowledge sharing and communication across engineering and effectively advocate for ML engineering needs to stakeholders within Canva • Run hiring and resourcing needs, including resourcing for the execution of the roadmap
🎯 Requirements
• A history of success in technical people leadership and mentorship of engineers • Ability to work effectively across timezones (particularly EU/AU coordination) • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience of platform engineering, designing and building complex, distributed systems involving Machine Learning • Worked with tech stack: Python, Pytorch, Ray/Anyscale, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, vLLM, W&Bs, Argo Workflows, Terraform • Showcase first principles thinking - use deep understanding of a problem space to make informed decisions • Deep passion for platform engineering & empowering engineering to create business value • Excellent problem-solving skills • Proven expertise in inspiring others to achieve their full potential • Continuous learner attitude who relishes global-scale challenges and solutions
🏖️ 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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