Mid-weight Finished Art and Prepress Designer (9-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. 

This role is a 9-month engagement working full-time hours per week.

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:

Design & Craft

• Create high-quality print designs across formats (marketing materials templates collateral)

• Apply strong typography layout colour and composition principles

• Ensure designs are functional editable and scalable within Canva templates

• Uphold Canvas one quality bar across all print outputs

Print Production & Technical Execution

• Prepare print-ready files including correct bleed trim colour profiles (CMYK) and resolution

• Conduct pre-flight checks to ensure accuracy and consistency before production

• Manage file setup packaging and export requirements for different print outputs

• Understand and apply print production methods and constraints

Systems & Scalability

• Design templates and assets that are modular reusable and user-friendly

• Contribute to print design systems and best practices

• Ensure outputs work across multiple formats sizes and use cases

AI & Workflow Integration

• Use AI tools to accelerate ideation variation and production workflows

• Apply design judgement to ensure outputs meet quality and usability standards

• Explore ways to scale content production responsibly using AI

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with design product and print stakeholders

• Communicate design decisions clearly and concisely

• Actively participate in critiques and feedback loops

• Build strong working relationships across teams

• Generating AI audio that ships music SFX and voice with quality clarity and compliance at pace.

• Refining prompts and presets managing evaluation sets and aligning to style guides and guardrails.

• Building ingest-ready workflows (naming metadata rights QA rollback) with Ingest and Templates teams.

• Supporting discoverability through clear naming tagging and taxonomy design.

• Analysing data and feedback to improve audio quality diversity and effectiveness.

• Publishing reusable docs and playbooks to help others scale their workflows with confidence.

• Escalating any safety rights or consent concerns to appropriate teams with context and clarity.

Youre probably a match if

Core Craft & Design

• Strong foundation in visual design fundamentals (typography layout colour composition)

• Ability to create polished production-ready design work

• Understanding of designing for templates and scalable systems

Print & Production Expertise

• Solid understanding of print processes and production workflows

• Experience preparing print-ready files (bleed trim colour profiles resolution)

• Knowledge of pre-press file setup and export requirements

• Attention to detail in pre-flight and quality assurance

Tools & Workflow

• Proficiency in design tools (Adobe/Affinity Prepress and Print Production Tools Pantone and ICC Profiles Generative AI Tools)

• Familiarity with file structures and production pipelines

• Ability to manage multiple deliverables efficiently

AI & Future-Ready Skills

• Emerging ability to use AI tools to support design workflows

• Understanding of how to balance AI efficiency with human craft and judgement
   

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

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