Technical SEO Specialist

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.

About the Team

The International SEO team is responsible for improving SEO performance of logged-out pages across the Canva website. Our mission in SEO is to empower every user in the world to discover Canva.

Were a global team of specialists spanning keyword research technical SEO content strategy outreach engineering data analytics design and operations. We work across many regions and languages combining proven frameworks with deep local market expertise.

About the 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.

Canvas SEO is world-class and were looking for a passionate i18n Technical SEO Specialist to join the International SEO team to help scale our next phase of growth across priority international markets.

The i18n Technical SEO Specialist will work closely with the i18n Technical SEO Lead and SEO Country Leads across multiple markets. Your role is to maintain the technical health of Canvas international pages identifying issues implementing fixes and ensuring our global SEO infrastructure is reliable scalable and optimised for discovery.

This is a primarily execution-focused role with a strong advisory component. Youll use SEO tools to surface errors and opportunities provide clear recommendations to Country Leads and implement changes directly or in collaboration with engineering and platform teams.

Canva is a fast-growing mission-driven company and were looking for talented people who want to contribute to something meaningful. If youre excited about the opportunity to make an impact show us what youve got strong performers in this role have significant opportunities to grow with us.

What youll do

i18n Technical SEO Support & Execution

• Provide hands-on technical SEO support to SEO Country Leads across multiple international markets

• Identify recommend and implement technical SEO fixes and improvements aligned with market strategies

• Maintain the technical health of international pages to support scaling and performance

• Use SEO tools to surface errors warnings and opportunities

• Investigate and resolve issues such as response status code errors structured data problems JS rendering issues and crawl inefficiencies

• Ensure fixes are implemented correctly and validated post-launch

Hreflang & Indexation Governance

• Monitor and maintain hreflang implementation indexation and crawlability across locales

• Identify and resolve issues related to duplication incorrect locale targeting or indexing inefficiencies

• Ensure international pages follow established technical SEO best practices

Platform & Engineering Collaboration

• Collaborate with engineering and i18n platform teams when technical changes require development support

• Provide clear context and requirements for technical SEO changes

• Align with the i18n Technical SEO Lead to ensure consistency with existing processes and standards across markets

Tooling Workflow & Reporting

• Use Jira and other internal tools to manage tickets and track technical SEO work

• Maintain clear documentation of issues recommendations and implementations

• Proactively support the triaging of all requests coming from SEO Country Leads and local SEO teams ensuring every task is crystal clear actionable and easy to prioritise before it moves forward

• For requests flowing in the opposite direction from Central SEO to local SEO teams ensure everything is crystal clear actionable and ready to dispatch with no follow-up needed

• Share progress and outcomes with SEO Country Leads and the i18n Technical SEO Lead in a timely and transparent way

Performance Monitoring & Debugging

• Monitor performance following technical SEO changes to ensure expected outcomes

• Support Country Leads with technical insights when investigating performance changes or anomalies

• Surface issues proactively before they compound across markets

Navigating the Evolution of Search & Discovery

• Stay curious about how AI-powered search and discovery is evolving including how users find information through platforms like ChatGPT Claude Perplexity and Googles AI Overviews

• Understand where traditional technical SEO drives value versus where new approaches may be more effective

• Stay up to date on GEO/AEO evolutions and next-generation optimisation techniques relevant to technical SEO

• Be open to experimenting with new technical approaches as the search landscape evolves

• Share observations and learnings about how technical factors affect discoverability in your markets contributing to our global understanding of emerging trends

What were looking for

Core Skills & Experience

• At least 3 years of experience in SEO with solid hands-on exposure to technical SEO

• Strong understanding of core technical SEO concepts: hreflang indexation crawlability site architecture and structured data

• Experience identifying and resolving technical issues such as 3xx/4xx errors structured data errors JS rendering issues and crawl inefficiencies

• Familiarity with SEO tools such as Google Search Console Bing Webmaster Tools Ahrefs Botify Lumar (DeepCrawl) Screaming Frog or similar

• Strong English communication skills for collaboration across international and central teams

• High attention to detail with the ability to follow technical processes and maintain quality standards

• Strong time management: ability to self-manage across multiple markets and priorities simultaneously

Required Experience

• Experience with large-scale database-driven or UGC platforms (marketplace pages template libraries user-generated content at scale)

• Experience with automation internal tooling or AI-assisted technical SEO workflows

• Familiarity with technically complex programmatically generated page sets understanding how site structure crawl efficiency and indexation behave at scale

Working Style

• Proactive and thorough: You surface issues early and follow through to resolution

• Comfortable operating in a multi-market environment while maintaining alignment with central standards

• Clear communicator who can translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for non-technical stakeholders

• Collaborative mindset: You build relationships easily work well across teams and contribute positively to team culture

• Willing to give and receive feedback constructively always aiming to improve quality and craft

Future-Oriented & Adaptable Mindset

• Curiosity about emerging channels: Youre actively interested in how discovery is evolving including AI search LLMs and new platforms and youre eager to learn

• Comfort with ambiguity: You can experiment with new technical approaches (like structured data for AI-generated answers) even when best practices are still being established

• Channel-agnostic thinking: You understand that technical SEO increasingly means technical discoverability across search engines AI tools and platforms yet to emerge

• Data-driven adaptability: You can objectively assess whats working and adjust your approach based on performance signals

• Early adopter energy: Youre the type of person whos already curious about how technical factors affect Canvas visibility in new discovery channels bringing insights rather than waiting for direction

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with multi-platform search ecosystems beyond Google (Bing Naver Yahoo Baidu etc)

• Background working across international markets

• Business-level proficiency in a second language relevant to Canvas priority markets

What Youll Learn and How Youll Develop

• Build deep practical expertise in international technical SEO execution across dozens of markets

• Develop strong cross-functional collaboration skills working with SEO engineering and platform teams

• Learn from and be guided by experienced international SEO leads with a track record of building high-performing local SEO teams

• Gain exposure to Canvas global SEO systems and international growth playbooks

• Grow toward greater ownership and independence with a clear path into broader technical SEO or specialist roles

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