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.
Senior Product Manager – AI Research
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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
• You'll ensure our research investments directly translate into user value, guiding our world-class research team toward innovations that solve genuine design challenges while building the foundation for tomorrow's creative tools. • You'll bring product empathy and user understanding to research projects, clarifying use cases, guiding toward meaningful outputs, and ensuring research solves real design challenges. • You'll translate complex research work into tangible product opportunities through prototypes, workshops, and strategic communication that bridges technical depth with business impact. • You'll collaborate with researchers to prioritize capabilities within projects, making strategic trade-offs between quality, speed, functionality, and user experience. • You'll design evaluation methodologies and facilitate expert input to ensure research outputs meet both technical excellence and product viability standards. • You'll support research teams in launching AI models thoughtfully, considering their strengths, limitations, and optimal integration points within Canva's ecosystem. • You'll ensure research ideas and requests from across Canva reach CORE teams, maintaining clear communication channels between research and broader product organization. • You'll contribute to research project prioritization at the portfolio level, ensuring our research investments align with Canva's most critical user and business needs.
🎯 Requirements
• You have 5+ years of product management experience with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML products , with a demonstrated track record of shipping technical products that users love • Direct experience taking research-based AI features from concept to production , understanding both the technical challenges of scaling innovations and the product complexities of user adoption • Strong understanding of AI/ML technology - you should understand architectures of language and image models, and trade-offs between different approaches while actively reading research papers and forming informed technical opinions • Experience creating or managing visual content , with domain expertise in design tools, creative workflows, or visual communication - you can distinguish good design from mediocre and articulate why • Ability to make technical product decisions in ambiguous research environments , with track record of prioritizing features, managing technical debt, and navigating the unique challenges of research-driven product development • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with ability to translate between technical teams and business stakeholders, facilitating productive partnerships across research, engineering, and design.
🏖️ 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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