Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Where and How You Can Work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with a campus in Melbourne. This role is based in Sydney or Melbourne. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals, while collaborating closely with global teams across time zones.

What You’d Be Doing in This Role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. In this role you will own the creative and strategic direction for how we produce, enrich, and scale world‑class photo and video content for over 220 million users.

Key Responsibilities

- Defining and leading the creative strategy for Canva’s photography and video content – ensuring a library that is diverse, on‑trend, and genuinely useful for users.
- Driving AI‑first approaches to content production: using AI to generate, enrich, tag, and scale photo and video assets that would take years to produce by hand.
- Partnering with Content Studio’s production teams, engineers, and product managers to build tooling and workflows that unlock content creation at scale.
- Setting quality standards and creative direction across photography and video – commissioning shoots, reviewing assets, and ensuring every piece meets the Canva bar.
- Contributing to Canva’s AI Template Marketplace goals, where photo and video content is a critical ingredient in making templates come alive.
- Coaching and leading a team of photographers, videographers,



and content producers to do the best work of their careers.

Qualifications

- Experienced creative leader in photography and/or video, with a strong point of view on quality and craft.
- Genuine excitement about how AI is changing content creation – with experience working with AI tools in your workflow.
- Experience leading creative teams or specialties, with the ability to set direction and help people grow.
- Understanding of operating at platform scale – millions of assets used across thousands of contexts.
- Ability to balance creative ambition and operational rigor – delivering beautiful work while getting it shipped.
- Solid collaboration skills in a cross‑functional environment, partnering with engineers, product managers, and operations teams.

About the Team

Content Studio is the group within Content & Discovery responsible for producing and scaling the visual content that powers Canva’s platform. We’re building toward an AI‑enabled marketplace with millions of templates, photos, and elements and create the systems, tooling, and creative workflows that make that possible at a global scale.

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 wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
- Flexible leave options that empower you to recharge and support you personally.

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📌 AI Photography & Videography Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Canva
📍 Melbourne