Partner Content & Promotion Specialist (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 Sydney or Melbourne so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

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

What youd be doing in this role

As a Partner Content Discovery & Promotion Specialist youll own the ongoing optimisation engine for how partner content is distributed and surfaced across Canva.

This role is primarily focused on continuous optimisation to the right content is elevated: researching user intent and category opportunities identifying high-value discovery moments running tests tracking performance and translating insights into clear recommendations that shape how we plan prioritise and elevate partner content over time.

Youll also support time-bound discovery placements as part of the toolkit helping ensure partner content is featured in the right contexts and learning from the performance outcomes.

Beyond that youll lead broader promotional activity for key partner moments content drops and launches - working across multiple teams to align messaging creative assets and launch content across Canva surfaces and relevant web experiences. Youll play a central role in executing these smoothly and strategically when they matter.

At the moment this role is focussed on:

• Identifying and prioritising high-value opportunities to improve how partner content is discovered based on user intent category needs seasonality and performance signals.
• Building and maintain an experimentation pipeline including hypotheses variants success measures and a clear decision-making process.
• Running tests across discovery and presentation variables maintaining accurate documentation of what was trialled where and when.
• Tracking performance and turn results into actionable insightswhats working whats not and where to focus next.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional discovery and platform teams to align on priorities execution and learnings.
• Coordinating promotional activity for priority partner moments working with stakeholders to align messaging creative assets and placement strategy across Canva surfaces.
• Supporting the creation and maintenance of curated partner content experiences (e.g. themed pages collections or spotlight moments) to help users find and engage with new content.
• Partnering with teams across design marketing and product to ensure activations are delivered smoothly and perform against agreed goals.
• Supporting partner launches when they occur ensuring discovery and promotion efforts are connected and measurable.
• Using research and performance learnings to inform future partner content planning: recommending themes formats and areas of focus that are most likely to resonate with users.

Youre probably a match if

• You have at least a few years experience in content strategy growth/content ops marketing ops merchandising/programming or experimentation-focused roles.
• You have a track record of running optimisation programs: forming hypotheses running tests interpreting results and iterating.
• Analytical comfort: using dashboards and self-serve data tools to monitor performance interpret results and make recommendations.
• Operational excellence: meticulous tracking prioritisation and stakeholder management across multiple streams of work.
• Confident communicator: can align with multiple teams document decisions and present learnings succinctly.
• You have the ability to translate data insights into content strategy - turning performance signals and research into recommendations on themes formats and areas of focus.
• You have hands-on experience with content management systems (CMS) or similar publishing/workflow tools and comfort operating within structured content pipelines.
• Youre comfortable adopting AI tools to support research synthesis experimentation workflows and day-to-day productivity.
• You have demonstrated interest in content and creative ecosystems - e.g. experience with content platforms design tools/workflows or adjacent industries (media entertainment creator economy publishing) that helps you contribute meaningfully to content strategy discussions.
• Strategic and curious: thinks in systems not one-offs; looks for compounding wins.
• Youre comfortable with ambiguity: can move forward with imperfect information and learn fast.
• Youre pragmatic experimentation: trusts intuition enough to test it and disciplined enough to change course based on results.

About the team

The Content Partnerships Group at Canva builds and manages a global portfolio of partnerships that power what people can create with - spanning entertainment and character IP stock content music from major labels and a broader ecosystem of assets that help users bring their ideas to life. We partner with the worlds most recognised brands rights holders and content platforms to ensure Canva users have access to high-quality on-trend content they love and trust.

Our work is focused on driving measurable growth and engagement: shaping user behaviour and perception attracting new monthly active users and deepening engagement for both new and existing users through branded and partner-led content experiences.

Long-term our ambition is to establish Canva as a place where everyone can create with known and loved entertainment IP - across music TV film gaming and fandom culture - by delivering content experiences that feel culturally relevant easy to use and worth returning for.

Other stuff to know

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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 :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time