Senior Legal Counsel – Product, Privacy

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🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Canva

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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 involving privacy, data protection, intellectual property, marketing, online safety, AI regulation, platform, competition and consumer laws • Advise product and engineering teams on product development, including agentic and generative AI products • Advise on go-to-market strategy, partnership terms, consumer-facing terms and risk mitigation • Build relationships with key stakeholders • Contribute to company-wide AI policies, processes and legal frameworks • Draft and maintain legal playbooks and internal guidance for AI tools and technologies • Collaborate with privacy, IP, security, product and engineering teams • Build scalable legal-review processes supporting new product launches • Participate in review and coordination of privacy or data-security incidents, including on-call support, investigations, notifications and resolution efforts • Monitor global AI and privacy regulations and relevant industry standards

🎯 Requirements

• Legally qualified with an AUS/NZ, UK, EU or US practising certificate • 10+ years practicing law • Some in-house legal experience, preferably in a technology company • Familiarity with global digital, AI, privacy, consumer and online safety laws and regulations, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, Digital Services Act and Online Safety Acts • Deep understanding of modern AI technology and products • Comfort collaborating with team members across time zones • Collaborative, pragmatic and business-minded approach • Ability to simplify compliance without compromising standards • Comfortable collaborating with engineers, product managers and marketers in fast-moving environments • Risk-aware approach • Creativity, curiosity and motivation by meaningful work • AI Governance Professional or Certified Information Privacy Professional qualifications highly regarded • Willingness to obtain CIPP certification within 6 months of joining is required • Knowledge and understanding of Canva • High comfort with technology and AI experimentation • Hands-on experience advising rapidly growing technology companies on privacy and product-related regulatory requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity packages • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers • Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more • Flexible leave options for time to recharge, study, and personal support • Remote work flexibility through hybrid working • Virtual interviews