Senior Performance Creative

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our global HQ is in Sydney Australia and as we continue to grow in our largest global market weve made our way from down under to San Francisco.

Our Jackson Square campus blends the neighborhoods vibrant downtown charm with Canvas signature flair. The space is designed for both deep work and collaboration along with spaces for Canvanauts to relax recharge and connect. We offer flexibility in how and where you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

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:

• Turning campaign briefs audience insights and performance data into distinctive creative concepts for paid social across Meta TikTok YouTube and other channels.

• Writing high-performing hooks scripts static copy carousels and longer-form video content designed to capture attention and drive action.

• Planning and running self-directed shoots for UGC-style creator-led and direct-to-camera content including sourcing and directing talent.

• Editing and iterating high volumes of short-form video quickly using strong judgement around pacing structure captions sound and storytelling.

• Reviewing creative performance across metrics such as hook rate hold rate CTR and conversion and turning those insights into clear hypotheses for the next round of work.

• Remixing and repurposing existing creative into new variations testing different angles formats and messages to improve performance.

• Partnering closely with strategists marketers and media partners to keep creative decisions connected to campaign goals and audience needs.

• Raising the creative bar by bringing strong craft judgement sharing learnings generously and helping turn successful experiments into repeatable playbooks.

Youre probably a match if

• • You have 5 years of experience across performance creative copywriting video production or content creation with a strong focus on paid social.

  • You have a portfolio of YouTube Meta or TikTok ads that demonstrate strong performance. Youve got the polish and the results.

  • You have experience creating and remixing UGC-style content into ads that convert.

  • Youre analytically minded: comfortable in dashboards confident with performance metrics and able to connect creative decisions to outcomes.

  • You have a deep understanding of platform dynamics formats and what actually makes people stop scrolling.

  • Youre a strong communicator who can present creative rationale clearly to stakeholders.

  • You can work at speed and scale managing multiple projects and tight turnarounds without dropping quality.

About the team

Canvas Growth Creative team sits at the intersection of creativity performance and scale. We create high-performing work across video copy static UGC-style content and everything in between - always with a clear focus on what drives impact.

We move quickly test often and use performance data to sharpen our thinking and improve the next piece of work. Great creative and great data go hand in hand here and the team is constantly learning experimenting and raising the bar.

Youll join a team that values strong craft curiosity and momentum with plenty of opportunity to shape how performance creative evolves at Canva.

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 connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Heres a taste of whats on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too

• Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing

• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution

• 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

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At Canva we value fairness and we strive to provide competitive market-informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. The target salary range for this position is $172000 to $199000. When calculating offers we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates skills and experience.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills merit and business needs in compliance with applicable local laws.

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!

When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time