Education Growth Lead UKI

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

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:

• Owning Education as a growth vertical in UK & Ireland  driving activation repeat usage and measurable adoption across teachers and students.

• Designing and executing UK & Irelands education growth strategy from grassroots teacher engagement to municipality-level partnerships.

• Shifting the focus from train to activate & retain embedding Canva into everyday classroom workflows.

• Aligning Sales Marketing Content Product and Partnerships around clear education growth outcomes.

• Identifying friction in onboarding and reducing barriers to sustained usage at scale.

• Building scalable locally relevant initiatives that turn education into a compounding acquisition and frequency engine.

Youre probably a match if

• You have built or scaled something measurable a market a vertical a segment and can clearly articulate the growth levers behind it.

• You think in activation retention and habit formation not just awareness or top-line sales.

• You are hands-on and comfortable operating without a rigid playbook rolling up your sleeves when needed.

• You can navigate both grassroots environments (teachers schools communities) and strategic conversations (partners stakeholders government).

• You thrive in cross-functional environments and can influence without authority.

• You are curious adaptable and excited about shaping a vertical that doesnt yet have a fully defined playbook.

About the team

Youll join Canvas International supergroup a distributed team of growth leaders marketers and strategists focused on expanding Canvas impact across key global UK & Ireland youll work closely with the Country Manager and collaborate across Sales Product Marketing Partnerships and Content to build education into a sustainable high-impact growth engine.

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hardbut youll experience lots of moments of magic connection and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to support your success inside and outside work:

Equity packages we want our success to be yours too
Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support wellbeing social connection office setup & more
Flexible leave options that let you recharge or take time to give back

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time