Senior Brand Designer (6 Month Contract) London, UK

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Alongside our global campuses we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. While we support flexible remote-friendly ways of working for this role were focusing on London so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This role is a 6 month engagement working full-time hours.

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.

Were looking for a Brand Designer (Growth Marketing) to join Canva on a 6-month this role youll focus on performance creative production delivering ad assets UGC edits and lifecycle visuals for our EMEA market.

Youll work on both always-on creative sprints across paid channels such as Meta TikTok and Google Display and campaign deliverables across owned channels such as lifecycle emails and app store assets. Youll collaborate with marketers on creative concepts and ad visuals ensuring outputs are both on-brand and optimized for performance.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Assisting in monthly creative sprint ad assets in both static and motion/video format
• Designing for UGC/lo-fi style video sprints and experiments (e.g. hook and CTA testing editing)
• Assisting with copy for GIF/banners and app marketing assets for always-on creative refreshers and local seasonal campaigns
• Emailing in-app and app storefront campaign banners to support local campaigns and experiments
• Writing review and dream up ideas for Canvas brand product and performance campaigns.
• Supporting campaigns from the initial idea to final execution always staying true to Canvas brand and strategy.
• Confidently pitching concepts and present your work to senior creative leaders product marketers and key stakeholders with a clear creative vision and strategic reasoning.
• Collaborating with external partners sharing guidance and feedback to keep messaging consistent and high-quality.
• Working closely with the Creative Director to ensure schedules are accurate and realistic and that deadlines are met.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and adapt static video and motion ads across Meta TikTok Google and Display.
• Edit and optimize UGC videos for ad sprints.
• Collaborate with marketers to translate strategy and insights into effective creatives.
• Contribute to conceptualization for growth marketing campaigns and lifecycle assets.
• Ensure all outputs are optimized for channel specs on-brand and localized for EMEA market.
• Share creative learnings and insights to strengthen future testing and production.

Youre probably a match if

• You have strong design portfolio showcasing digital ads motion graphics or UGC video edits.
• You have proficiency in design tools
• You have experience creating content for Meta TikTok Google Ads or other performance channels.
• Youre comfortable working in a fast-paced test-and-learn environment.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to adapt creative concepts across multiple formats and sizes.
• Youre a collaborative partner who can work closely with marketers and other creatives.
• You have an understanding of cultural trends and how to translate them into design.

Were seeking a designer who thrives in fast-paced collaborative environments and is excited by the challenge of bringing ideas to life ondigital media. You should be comfortable balancing creativity with execution delivering polished assets on time while leaving space for experimentation and innovation.

Youll succeed in this role if youre a resourceful detail-oriented creative whos passionate about design social media and creating content that resonates with local audiences.

About the team

Marketings mission at Canva is for Canva to become the most loved brand in the world. Canvas International Marketing Group is a diverse and distributed group of marketers who take this mission forward to drive user growth brand awareness and affinity in our priority international markets.

As part of the International Marketing Group our PerMer Marketing team drives Canvas growth by blending global strategies with hyperlocal insights. We aim to create meaningful connections with users in EMEA through local campaigns localized moments and evergreen creative initiatives across performance marketing brand events partnerships social community engagement and other growth channels.

The designer will work directly with the PerMer Creative Growth Marketing team supporting the creation of engaging locally resonant creative content that amplifies our presence in EMEA.

Other stuff to know

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Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

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!

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Contract