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Staff Technical Program Manager – Generative AI
23 hours ago
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
• Drive global AI research delivery: Lead planning and execution across Core’s major research programs, aligning distributed teams in Australia, Vienna, China, and San Francisco. • Ensure clarity of scope, timelines, milestones, and quality expectations, and see these programs through from research planning to production readiness. • Coordinate cross-time-zone research programs: Create the operational systems that keep global research work moving—scheduling collaboration windows, managing dependencies, unblocking researchers, and ensuring work progresses smoothly despite geographic distribution. • Bridge research and product: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams to identify high-quality research output suitable for productisation. • Bring structure to evaluation, prioritisation, and handover processes so strong research becomes high-impact product features. • Ensure high-quality research operations: Introduce program governance, consistent reporting, risk surfacing, and standardised ways of working across Core. • Improve predictability, transparency, and delivery confidence across all research programs. • Support AI model development: Help coordinate experiments, data needs, and model training cycles. • Facilitate discussions on trade-offs, sequencing, and technical decisions to help teams move quickly and responsibly. • Build alignment and trust: Facilitate communication between researchers, product teams, leadership, and stakeholders. • Bring clarity to complex discussions, align conflicting priorities, and maintain strong, transparent relationships across the organisation. • Mentor and uplift others: Contribute to TPM craft across the group by sharing best practices, improving operational frameworks, and supporting other TPMs and leaders working with AI-driven teams.
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager or equivalent role in a technology company. • Strong technical aptitude, with familiarity in concepts related to ML, data pipelines, experimentation, and model development - text to image and video experience and familiarity is critical. • Experience working with Product Managers, Engineers, and Researchers to deliver complex, multi-team initiatives. • Proven ability to manage large programs end-to-end across distributed teams and time zones. • Strong strategic thinking, able to balance long-term research goals with near-term product needs. • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, making sense of evolving research environments, and bringing structure to uncertain problem spaces. • Excellent communication skills, capable of managing up, across, and outward with clarity and accountability. • Skilled at resolving conflicting priorities, aligning teams, and establishing delivery confidence. • Committed to uplifting craft, mentoring others, and building scalable delivery practices for a growing research organisation. • Curious about AI and enthusiastic about using AI tools to improve program management, team efficiency, and decision-making.
🏖️ 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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