Education Growth Lead, Vietnam

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Where and how you can work

This role is based in Vietnam. Were building Canvas presence across Southeast Asia and empowering teams to do their best work wherever they are. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that helps them and their team achieve ambitious goals whether thats from home in a co-working space or collaborating in person when it counts.

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. Thats all part of the fun. This role will give you the flavour of what youll be working on when you start and like everything at Canva it will continue to evolve.

As the Education Growth Lead (Vietnam) youll drive Canvas awareness and adoption across the pre-sales education lifecycle from K12 through higher education and lifelong learning. Your focus will be on individual educators and students building strong engagement before any institutional sales motion begins.

Youll act as a single-threaded leader for Education growth in Vietnam shaping strategy influencing cross-functional partners and executing with pace to grow Education Monthly Active Users (Edu MAUs) in-market. While this role doesnt carry direct revenue targets youll partner closely with our B2B Education Sales teams when institutional opportunities arise.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Education adoption strategy: Own the national education adoption strategy across K20 focused on growing Canva usage among individual students teachers and educators. Partner closely with the Country Manager to set priorities and execute locally.
• In-market execution: Lead Education initiatives locally coordinating across marketing content community product and localisation partners to drive awareness onboarding and activation.
• Onboarding & activation: Design and deliver education-focused onboarding programs campaigns and initiatives that help educators and students embed Canva into everyday teaching and learning workflows.
• Local insight & feedback loop: Build deep insight into the local education landscape across K12 tertiary and lifelong learning. Translate educator and student needs into clear actionable feedback for product content and localisation teams.
• Education partnerships (non-commercial): Build and nurture partnerships with schools education networks NGOs and educator communities to support adoption training and engagement. This role does not carry direct sales targets.
• Community & advocacy: Represent Canvas education mission locally through events educator communities conferences and education initiatives aligned with country and global priorities.
• B2B Education collaboration: Partner with Canvas B2B Education and Sales teams when institutional opportunities arise supporting pilots and activations while remaining focused on pre-sales education engagement and individual usage growth.
• Measurement & optimisation: Track key education adoption signals including onboarding engagement teacher activation classroom usage and school penetration and use insights to continuously refine strategy and programs.

Youre probably a match if:

• You have extensive experience growing a market segment or program ideally in education SaaS consumer tech or a mission-driven organisation
• You have deep familiarity with Vietnams education ecosystem across K12 higher education or lifelong learning
• Youve worked directly with educators students or education organisations and the government and understand how adoption happens at scale
• Youre a strong communicator fluent in Vietnamese and English confident engaging with educators partners and cross-functional stakeholders
• Youre analytical and outcome-focused comfortable turning data into insights and action
• Youre product-minded passionate about improving the experience of teachers and students
• Youre aligned with Canvas mission to empower the world to design and excited to help every classroom in Vietnam unlock their creativity

About the team

Youll be part of Canvas International Supergroup a diverse distributed team of marketers strategists and growth leaders focused on expanding Canvas presence in key global markets.

We partner closely with Marketing Growth Product Sales & Success Partnerships Content Finance and Strategy to drive sustainable user and revenue growth Vietnam youll play a pivotal role in making Canva an indispensable part of teaching and learning across the country.

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 connection and fun along the way.

Heres a taste of whats on offer:

• Equity packages we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave that supports all parents & carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing and growth
• Flexible leave options to recharge and give back

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Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills passion and 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 even if you dont feel like you meet every single requirement wed still love to hear from you.

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time