Country Manager South Africa

About the Role

The South Africa Country Manager is the local owner of Canvas growth brand and partnerships in the market. This is a playercoach role with full accountability for user growth (MAU) revenue (ARR) and the strength of Canvas local ecosystem.

What youll do

• Own market growth endtoend. Act as the founder of Canva South Africa setting and delivering ambitious MAU and ARR growth targets.

• Plant seeds. Build out our expansion plans for our South Africa frontier markets - Nigeria and Kenya.

• Build and execute the country strategy. Develop a clear multiyear plan grounded in local user insight market dynamics and Canvas global priorities.

• Lead partnerships. Identify build and activate highimpact partnerships across education institutions government bodies enterprise NGOs creators and platforms. Turn partnerships into measurable growth levers not logos.

• Localise the Canva experience. Work with local and global teams to adapt product content pricing and packaging to local needs cultures and use cases.

• Create and lead a highperforming local team. Hire inspire and coach Aplayers working closely with regional and global specialty leads.

• Own education and sponsor B2B growth. Act as the local owner forCanva for Education and sponsor Canva for Teams supporting pipeline creation and credibility.

• Run the local operating cadence. Align regional and global workstreams prioritise ruthlessly and move fast.

• Own the budget. Allocate spend with a founder mindset maximising impact and learning velocity.

• Be the public face of Canva. Represent Canva across press events community and partner engagements.

Qualifications :

What were looking for

• Proven market builder. Experience launching scaling or leading a market for a global tech or SaaS company or as a founder / early leader.

• Deep partnerships experience. Demonstrated track record of building and monetising strategic partnerships that drive distribution adoption or revenue.

• Strong commercial instincts. Comfortable owning numbers setting targets and driving MAU and ARR growth.

• Founderlevel ownership. Bias to action comfort with ambiguity and the ability to do and lead at the same time.

• Userobsessed. Deep curiosity for local users their motivators and barriers and the discipline to turn insight into action.

• People leader. Proven ability to build inspire and coach highperforming teams.

• Productminded. Able to translate market and user insight into clear product and content requirements.

• Analytical. Obsessed with KPIs and able to turn messy data into clear priorities.

• Strong communicator. Confident influencing senior stakeholders locally and globally; fluent in written and spoken English.

• Values aligned. Deeply motivated by Canvas mission and ways of working.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time