Engineering Manager Elements Experience

About the team

Youll join the Elements Experience team in the Content & Discovery Supergroup. Were on a mission to help every user effortlessly find the content that empowers them to design. Whether its billions of templates images videos or designs we make it discoverable. Our impact spans inspiration to creation and were scaling fast.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Leading our Elements Experience team a balanced squad of frontend backend and ML engineers to deliver AI-powered content features across Canvas editor including features like style match style filters and other AI-powered content features across Canva surfaces

• Setting the technical vision for how millions of users discover explore and apply visual content from browsing and filtering to AI-driven style recommendations and contextual surfacing

• Partnering across Product Design and platform teams while contributing hands-on to architectural decisions and mentoring engineers through code and design reviews

• Using metrics and experimentation to drive decisions defining success measures interpreting signals from A/B tests and usage data and building a team culture where curiosity about user behaviour shapes what gets built next

• Maintaining a high bar for reliability performance and operational health across the teams services while driving features at the intersection of AI and UX including model-powered interactions and reward models

• Supporting and growing a high-performing team of 7 engineers across disciplines with a strong culture around craft accountability and genuine curiosity about the problems users are trying to solve

Youre probably a match if:

• Youre an experienced engineering leader comfortable spanning frontend backend and ML you dont need to be expert in all three but you ask the right questions unblock across the stack and make sound technical tradeoffs

• Youve led engineers across disciplines and get genuine energy from developing people alongside products coaching growing careers and building team culture matter to you as much as shipping

• Youre metrics-minded and deeply curious about users you reach for data and experimentation to validate hypotheses dig into qualitative and quantitative signals and channel that curiosity into sharper problem framing for your team

• You have a strong product sensibility care about operational excellence and do your best work in cross-functional partnerships with PMs designers and ML engineers shipping the feature and keeping it healthy are the same job to you

• Youre strategic enough to set direction and hands-on enough to unblock your team in code

Additional Information :

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 woven throughout life at Canva.

Heres a taste of whats on offer:
Equity packages we want our success to be yours too
Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing social connection office setup & more
Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good take time to recharge and support you personally

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time