Senior Product Manager AI Developer Experience

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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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.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Drive the AI engineering strategy and roadmap. Working alongside engineering and technical leadership youll shape the vision for how AI accelerates Canvas 2000 engineersdefining the tooling stack prioritizing platform investments and building the business cases that unlock budget and resources.

• Build deep continuous connection with the engineering community. Run weekly office hours host bi-weekly AI Engineering Roundtables maintain rotating 1:1s with power users and stay active in Slack channels. Youll become the recognized expert on AI tooling at Canvasomeone engineers seek out for advice feedback and support.

• Remove barriers and drive adoption. Identify the highest-impact pain points across the SDLC ship quick wins that solve repeated problems create self-service documentation and guides and run enablement sessions that help teams level up. Your success is measured by how fast engineering teams adopt AI tools and the gains they unlock.

• Define and communicate success. Build the measurement framework that tracks adoption productivity satisfaction and ROI. Tell the story through regular metrics updates demos and case studies that keep stakeholders aligned and prove the value of AI engineering investments.

• Curate the tooling landscape and experiment at the edge. Maintain a living comparison of AI coding tools run pilots on emerging capabilities partner with bleeding-edge adopters to test unproven practices and influence vendor roadmaps. Youll be the bridge between external innovation and internal application.

• Experiment and build constantly. Youre a practitioner first - using AI coding tools daily building prototypes and demos creating automation workflows and testing new techniques before recommending them. You learn by doing and your hands-on experience gives you credibility with engineers and informs every strategic decision you make.

• Elevate the platform product practice. Model strong product thinking in a highly technical environment mentor other platform PMs and contribute to raising the bar on how we discover prioritize and deliver for internal customers.

Youre probably a match if

This is a new and rapidly-moving space. Were less concerned with checking boxes and more interested in finding a high-agency highly-motivated builder who is customer obsessed can thrive at pace learn continuously and lead through a community-first approach.

• 7 years of product or platform leadership in technical environments. Deep experience with developer platforms internal platforms or technical B2B products. Youve built for technical users and understand what it takes to earn their trust and drive adoption.

• Youre a practitioner not just a strategist. You use AI coding tools (Claude Cursor GitHub Copilot) and automation platforms (n8n Zapier Power Automate) every single day. Youre an early adopter who experiments constantly and you have strong opinions informed by hands-on experiencenot just blog posts and vendor pitches.

• Strong product fundamentals across the full lifecycle. Discovery synthesis of qualitative and quantitative signals problem framing roadmapping stakeholder communication and community building. Most importantly youre deeply empatheticyou can put yourself in engineers shoes and feel their pain points viscerally.

• Technical fluency with modern engineering practices. You understand CI/CD pipelines developer workflows and the software development lifecycle. Previous experience working on developer experience platforms internal tooling or DevOps products is ideal. Prior experience as an engineer or demonstrated technical building skills is highly regarded.

• Youve shipped complex multi-stakeholder platforms. You know how to navigate ambiguity align diverse technical teams (backend frontend ML data) and deliver products that scale. Youve built things that thousands of people use daily.

• Bonus: AI platform or product experience. If youve worked directly on AI-focused engineering tooling or tackled AI in platform and infrastructure contexts thats likely a strong advantage.

About the team

The Infra Supergroup at Canva aims to make complex technology simple for Canvanauts by building foundational platforms that will propel Canvas growth. The scope is broad: every week thousands of developers interact with the tools utilities and platforms that Infra provides. Infra plays a direct role in improving developer impact across the entire software lifecycle. More than just a set of tools Infra aims to improve developer happiness and unlock innovations that empower Canvanauts to delight users enter new markets and provide a highly-reliability experience to users around the world.

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