Canva

Lead Counsel

To empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere

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  • Business Operations and Strategy

  • Full-time

  • Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Mid Level · A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 years of experience.

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Why Canva

Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere.

About the role

What you’d be doing in this role As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve. Canva is seeking a Lead Counsel - Product, who will be responsible for coordinating, reporting and promoting compliance with global regulations across 190 jurisdictions for its product suite, and ensuring Canva becomes the world’s most trusted platform. Alongside leading a team of Product and Privacy Counsels, that partner with our various internal groups, you will play a key role in delivering our strategy to design anything and publish everywhere. You will be supporting our content creators and partnerships with app developers, AI projects and design experience, including launching the next generation of exciting Canva Products, including our Visual Worksuite and AI powered-Magic Studio. You’ll work to ensure Canva’s products continue to delight our community and meet our goals, whilst also keeping users safe and meeting community and regulator expectations.

What you'll be responsible for

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    Problem Identification

    Identify the problems and needs of key stakeholders to guide data analysis

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    Execution and Project Management

    Plan and deliver project plans by managing people, resources, budget, and timelines, to support the organization’s goals

  • Stakeholder Engagement

    Partner with stakeholders to understand specifications, business requirements, and communicate insights

Skills you'll need

  • Prioritization

    Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions

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    Decision Making

    Considers the costs and benefits of potential actions and determines the most appropriate one

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    Problem solving

    Identifies problems and develops logical solutions that address the problems

Meet the team

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Canva

The Product team’s vision at Canva is to create the most accessible design tool for every person in the world. You will help drive the direction of this mission, define what that future looks like, and build the products and features to get us there. We believe we can improve the world by empowering people to design and visually communicate better, and that starts with our own product.