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.
Regional HR Lead
🕒 May 25
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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
• Bridge Global and Local • Adapt and operationalise global People initiatives for the region, ensuring they're effective, locally relevant, and compliant. • Pressure-test whether global approaches will land well in SEA, flag gaps early, and shape how changes are communicated and implemented on the ground. • Feed regional trends, risks, and opportunities back to HQ so our global strategy stays grounded in local reality. • HR Business Partnering • Provide targeted People Partnering support to a defined client group within the region. • Support local org design and reorgs, total rewards benchmarking, country expansion, and the rollout of people initiatives and programs. • Be the in-timezone, trusted partner for sensitive people matters and complex regional challenges. • Compliance, Risk & Local Expertise • Own regional employment compliance and people risk in partnership with Location Partners and Employment Legal. • Be the regional subject matter expert on local legislation, regulation, and cultural nuance across SEA's diverse markets. • Act as the escalation point for complex employee relations matters and lead the response to critical regional events such as natural disasters, safety incidents, or major regulatory shifts. • Deeply understand the benefit offering across each country consulting on local benefit gaps that impact talent attraction and retention where COEs may not have full visibility. • Culture & Community • Help scale Canva’s culture in a way that feels locally authentic and inclusive. • Monitor engagement and organisational health across the region, using people data and insights to improve engagement, retention, and employee experience. • Support regional connection, events, and leadership presence. • Regional People Leadership • Lead and develop a team of four across People Partnering, People Relations, and Location Partners. • Set regional priorities, ensure clear ownership across the People ecosystem, and coach your team to thrive in a matrixed, global environment. • Provide leadership and connection for the local People team, drive alignment and connection across different People functions to ensure cohesive delivery.
🎯 Requirements
• Proven experience as a senior HR Business Partner in a complex, global environment • Deep knowledge of the Philippines, and ideally South East Asia, employment landscape including regulatory requirements, cultural nuance, and local market dynamics • Track record of leading and developing People teams, including across dotted-line and matrixed relationships • Strong judgement in navigating ambiguity and complex, sensitive people decisions • Ability to influence without authority and build trust with senior leaders • Comfortable operating with significant autonomy while knowing when to bring others in • A pragmatic, thoughtful approach with a genuine bias for action
🏖️ 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 and personal growth • Flexible leave options to recharge and be a force for good • Exposure to global teams and cross-functional leaders as we scale toward 1 billion users
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