Engineering Director Print

About the team

Canva Print has 110 people across Australia the Philippines and the United States with a 70-person technology org predominantly based in Sydney. We cover the full print funnel end-to-end from helping people discover design and buy print-on-demand products to working with the print partners who manufacture and deliver them worldwide. Were building an e-commerce-first Print experience and working to grow Prints annual revenue while keeping sustainability at the core of what we do including initiatives like one-print-one-tree.

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

Canva Print brings Canva designs into the real world helping people and businesses turn their ideas into products they can hold share and use. Were making it easier for anyone to bring an idea from the screen to the physical world and building toward a billion-dollar business with the scale complexity and ambition to match. Were looking for an Engineering Director to lead engineering across Canva Print: a leadership role where your impact comes through the leaders you grow the strategy you set and the bar you hold.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Setting and delivering Prints technical strategy partnering with the Product and Design leads (the group triad) to turn it into goals teams can rally behind

• Coaching and growing the Engineering Leads who run our Print teams and building a healthy leadership pipeline

• Owning the quality of technical decisions across the group and steering the big ones yourself

• Translating engineering trade-offs into plain terms so non-technical stakeholders can make good calls

• Building a safe high-performing growth-oriented culture hiring developing and managing performance across the org

• Owning engineerings contribution to Prints commercial and revenue outcomes

• Championing how the team adopts AI both in what we build for customers and how we build it

Youre probably a match if

• Youve led engineering organisations at meaningful scale including coaching and growing other engineering managers and leads

• You bring strong technical judgement comfortable weighing long-term trade-offs and making sure the right expertise is in the room even where youre not the deepest expert yourself

• You have a track record of turning technical strategy into goals and roadmaps that teams actually deliver against

• You think commercially and understand how engineering decisions connect to revenue and business outcomes

• You communicate well and build real rapport across product design operations and partner teams

• Youre comfortable in a fast-growing ambiguous environment where the role evolves as the business scales

• Experience running an e-commerce or marketplace business is a strong plus

• Youre a genuine people leader building inclusive high-performing cultures resolving conflict and running fair performance and calibration processes

About the team

Canva Print is 110 people across Australia the Philippines and the United States with a 70 person technology org predominantly based in Sydney. We cover the full print funnel end to end from helping people discover design and buy print on demand products to working with the print partners who manufacture and deliver them worldwide. Were building an e-commerce-first Print experience and working to grow Prints annual revenue while keeping sustainability at the core of what we do including initiatives like one-print-one-tree.

Additional Information :

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Heres a taste of whats on offer:

• 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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Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time