Senior Operations Expert Trust & Safety

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job descriptions can feel a bit formulaic sometimes but we promise Canva is anything but. If youre drawn to what were building and you see yourself in this role wed love to hear from you.

Where and How You Can Work

Our offices are a hub for collaboration and energy and we also believe in working where you do your best thinking. Canva offers flexibility to work in a way that suits you whether thats remote hybrid or in-office.

What Youd Be Doing in This Role

Canva is used by over 150 million people every day and keeping that platform safe is one of the most important things we do. Our Safety & Trust Operations (STOps) team sits at the centre of that mission combining deep operational expertise with cross-functional fluency to reduce harm at scale.

As Senior Operations Expert youll be a key individual contributor on the STOps team leading complex abuse investigations supporting vendor guidance and contributing to the AI-driven tooling and classifier training that powers our detection capabilities. This is a high-trust high-responsibility role for someone who thrives in ambiguous environments handles nuanced decisions with care and genuinely cares about making the internet safer.

Please note: this role involves regular exposure to sensitive and potentially distressing content including child safety material. Canva provides dedicated wellbeing support structured resilience practices and access to counselling for team members in this function.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Leading triage and investigation of escalated abuse cases across categories including deceptive content hate and discrimination abuse and harassment and child safety
• Acting as a point of contact for Tier 1 vendor support quality escalations training alignment and policy reinforcement and delivering policy updates and edge-case clarification to vendor partners
• Participating in red-teaming exercises to surface classifier blind spots labelling datasets evaluating classifier output and supporting trust model tuning
• Leading or co-leading incident response including on-call participation and post-mortems
• Documenting patterns and trends from escalations to inform policy ML and product strategy across the wider Trust & Safety group
• Representing STOps in cross-functional efforts with Content Safety Abuse Insights Account Integrity and other teams

Youre Probably a Match If:

• You have a Bachelors degree or 3 years of experience in Trust & Safety abuse operations or fraud investigation
• You can own high-risk investigations with clarity and independence and youre familiar with case investigation tooling (e.g. Castle or similar)
• You bring experience or genuine curiosity around AI readiness data labelling prompt testing classifier feedback or red-teaming
• Youve demonstrated the ability to handle emotionally challenging content while maintaining strong self-care practices and personal resilience
• You collaborate effectively across Policy Product Engineering and Legal you know how to represent a frontline operational perspective in strategic conversations
• Youre flexible and can participate in an on-call rotation which may include 24/7 coverage and holiday shifts based on operational needs

About the Team

STOps is Canvas frontline safety operations function the team responsible for investigating abuse enforcing policy and building the operational foundation that keeps Canva safe for everyone. We work closely with Content Safety Abuse Insights Account Integrity and our AI and product teams. Its meaningful challenging work and we take care of each other while we do it.

Whats in It for You

Canva has grown hugely over the last few years but were only just getting started. Heres a taste of whats on offer:

• Equity packages so you share in Canvas success
• 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 supports you personally

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

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!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time