Organisational Development Performance Review Specialist

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. This role will be Sydney based. 

About the team

The Impact Experience team exists to make performance feel clear fair and empowering for every Canvanaut. We focus on designing and delivering world-class performance experiences from feedback and growth conversations to performance cycles tools systems promotions and recognition.

Were a small team with big 2026 were reimagining how performance feedback and development work at Canva while also building the internal systems and experiences to support a world-class people program.

About the role

This is a specialist role where youll work closely with your Coach the Growth and Impact Lead and your peer Performance Review SME as well as many cross-functional partners to help design and deliver the end-to-end Growth & Impact experience at Canva.

Youll play a key role in ensuring performance processes land well with clarity consistency and with the right level of structure to enable impact at scale. 

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:

• Partnering with the Lead and team to shape and deliver Performance Review cycles including planning education comms and rollout.

• Reviewing and improving our existing Growth and Impact processes including promotions feedback and goals. 

• Owning and running key performance workstreams and initiatives leading day to day delivery coordination and stakeholder alignment.

• Bringing clarity and structure to complex performance programs by thinking through scale change and interdependencies.

• Input into shaping and improving enablement content including feedback guides comms plans toolkits and Hub updates.

• Continuously improving systems tools and processes to support clarity adoption and impact at scale.

• Building context quickly by diving into past performance and recognition work to understand whats been done whats evolving and whats changing.

• Nurturing new coaches (managers) and providing them with the tools to manage performance effectively and guide them on how to have great conversations.

Youre probably a match if

• You have a background in Organisational Development or HR Business Partnering within fast-paced and hypergrowth global companies ideally tech/SaaS environments.

• You have deep expertise in performance management and have successfully scaled performance management processes in previous roles and are comfortable getting into the weeds and delivering on all facets of impact and performance.

• You have a deep understanding of the system functionality education programmes communications support guides calibration practices and distribution reporting leveraging your HR knowledge to drive continuous improvement.

• You have the ability to flex between delivering quickly and also reflecting ideating challenging and maturing our approach and practices.

• You have a knack for synthesising complex ideas into simple brief direct messages; and who communicates in a kind clear conversational tone of voice.

• You have a deep understanding of and ideally first-hand experience in managing performance approaches and tooling.

• Youre high agency and outcome oriented quick to get context and quick to move. People trust you to take ownership drive progress and figure things out when the map is incomplete.

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 :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time