Senior Experiential Marketing Manager 6-month Contract

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 California (San Francisco or LA) so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This role is a 6-month engagement working 40 hours per week.

What youd be doing in this role

Were looking for a seasoned experiential marketer to join Canvas Brand Experience team as a Senior Experiential Marketing Manager.

As a senior marketing manager on the team your remit will span strategy project leadership and flawless delivery of our biggest owned events. For Canva Create 2026 your focus will be on programming and digital storytelling with broad exposure to all elements of the event including creative development experience design sponsorship support event logistics and cross-functional operations.

While Canva Create and Owned Events at Canva will be your core responsibility this role is designed to contribute to the evolution of experiential at Canva more broadly helping to shape how we show up across formats audiences and moments around the world.

At Canva this role is focused on:

• Acting as a project leader on Canva Create and other Owned Events helping set the strategic direction manage complexity and drive alignment across teams from start to finish.
• Leading end-to-end programming for Canva Create 2026 overseeing 4 stages and 7 hands-on workshop environments with a team of 10 Canvanauts and collaborators.
• Collaborating with Digital and Campaigns teams to ensure our experiential work is accurately and beautifully represented across our online presence including landing pages rewatch experiences and more.
• Supporting the planning production and execution of live experiences across the year from product launches and pop-ups to sponsor integrations and trade shows.
• Building and managing event budgets production timelines vendor relationships and internal workflows navigating projects at varying scales while delivering to a consistently high standard.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams across Brand Product Creative Sponsorship Ops and Comms to align on goals shape narrative strategy and ensure seamless execution.
• Bringing a strong creative point of view to each experience pushing boundaries and elevating the quality and innovation of our output.
• Managing large teams of internal and external contributors fostering collaboration accountability and a shared sense of purpose.
• Ensuring the work is amplified across relevant channels from social and PR to product and partnerships so our experiences live beyond the moment.

Youre probably a match if

• Have 7 years of experience bringing brands to life through experiential or brand marketing ideally (but not limited to) working on large-scale high-profile and global initiatives.
• Understand what makes audiences tick and know how to craft compelling journeys that inform inspire and delight.
• Are fluent in both digital and in-person experiences and know how to bridge the two seamlessly to create cohesive resonant storytelling.
• Have worked in or with agencies and are comfortable managing multiple collaborators vendors or stakeholders at once.
• Have a strong creative point of view and a deep understanding of how to translate brand objectives into engaging experiential concepts.
• Are equally comfortable mixing creativity with strategic thinking with the ability to prioritize effectively zoom in on details and zoom out to see the big picture.
• Excel at engaging and influencing cross-functional stakeholders and can confidently lead the process from idea to execution.
• You have high emotional intelligence empathy. Sense of humor is a must! 
• Thrive in fast-paced environments enjoy collaborating across teams and are excited about working on a global stage (frequent travel is part of the fun!).
• Are excited about Canvas mission and passionate about delivering meaningful beautiful brand experiences at scale.

About the team

As a Senior Experiential Marketing Manager you will sit within the Experiential Team in Brand Marketing and will play a critical role in helping to build and develop how Canva comes to life across the cultural close partnership with the cross-functional team at Canva you will support and help execute an overall global experiential strategy creative production and execution of proprietary event tentpoles sponsor integrations pop-ups and virtual events in support of Canvas mission to become the worlds most loved brand. 

Reporting to one of our Global Experiential Leads for Owned Events the SEMM will be integral in helping experiential to scale across the globe and support a number of business objectives across the organization. They will oversee the day-to-day project management of high profile programs and help to manage the cross-functional teams that will contribute to the programs success. Our ideal candidate is a driven ambitious self-starter whos hungry for the challenge of helping to grow the team and push boundaries in the experiential space.

This person must be organized solution-oriented able to stay calm under pressure and flexible enough to adapt to ever-changing project demands. Traits and expertise such as meticulous project management communication skills and attention to detail are critical to the success of this position.

Other stuff to know

At Canva we value fairness and we strive to provide competitive market-informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. The target daily rate range for this position is USD904 to USD1164. When calculating offers we make rate decisions based on market data and candidates skills and experience.

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

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