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.
Senior Legal Counsel – Content Safety, Product & Privacy
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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
• Identify and advise on legal issues in key areas including online content and product safety (including youth and AI), platform, privacy, intellectual property, AI regulation. • Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, advising on product development (including Generative AI products), go-to-market strategy, and risk mitigation, with a particular focus on safety issues. • Contribute to the development and operationalization of company-wide safety policies, and processes, including regulatory, government and law enforcement inquiry handling, scalable risk assessment frameworks, and regulatory monitoring (with a focus on online and child safety). • Draft and maintain legal playbooks and internal guidance. • Collaborate closely with policy, IP, security, product, trust and safety regulatory and engineering teams. • Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review to enable the launch of new products. • Participate in the review and coordination of potential safety, privacy or data security incidents (including on call), including investigations, notifications, and other resolution efforts. • Stay up to date with global AI, safety and privacy regulations and relevant industry standards, conduct impact mapping of incoming regulations, and drive compliance projects including annual online safety risk assessments. • Respond to and triage incidents and escalations. • Support with Canva-wide privacy and legal training and awareness initiatives. • Help us redefine the role of in-house counsel - build tools and processes for continued growth and success.
🎯 Requirements
• Legally qualified (AU/NZ practising certificate) • 8+ years practicing law with some experience in-house • Familiarity with key online safety laws and regulations, as well as privacy, platform and consumer laws relating to digital product and generative AI (e.g., Digital Services Act, Online Safety Act (UK and AU), GDPR) • Deep understanding of modern AI technology and products • You’re comfortable collaborating with team members in other time zones • You are a collaborative, pragmatic, business-minded lawyer who wants to help the Canva group grow and be a part of its exciting journey • You bring clarity to complexity and simplify compliance without compromising standards • You love collaborating with engineers and PMs — and thrive in fast-moving environments • You’re creative, curious, and motivated by meaningful work • Experience with data incidents and government authority requests • Bonus if you have: AIGP, CIPP/E or similar qualifications highly regarded (and willingness to obtain at least one certification within 6 months of joining is a must) • Knowledge and understanding of Canva • High level of comfort with technology and AI experimentation • Hands-on experience advising rapidly growing technology companies on privacy and product-related regulatory requirements.
🏖️ 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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