Lead Creative Technologist

**Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
- Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora,你好, hallo, vítejte- Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.**Where and how you can work**
- Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but in Aotearoa, we have a hub in Auckland that we call home to our local operations. And with that, you have choice in how and where you work. That means if you want to do your thing at our Auckland hub (if you're nearby) or at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.**What you’d be doing in this role
- As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.**Whilst this is a remote role, you must be located in Australia OR New Zealand, or willing to relocate to AU or NZ.
- This will be a player / coach role, where you will be embedded within the Marketing Group, whilst also leading a team of extremely talented Creative Technologists working across Canva's Product**You'll Build domain knowledge of Canva's technical stacks**:

- Understand the technical landscape of Canva, and stacks for website and landing page creation while building your expertise in creative visualisations, interactions, and prototyping.-
- You'll work creatively through and around perceived limitations and/or challenges to create delightful customer experiences.- You'll partner with product designers and researchers to explore and implement user experiences.- You'll partner with engineers to build out testing capabilities and ensure work can be translated into production.- You'll develop documentation and processes for the team to use-
**You're probably a match if**:

- You have experience managing or coaching other Creative Technologists
- You have experience delivering detailed, high-quality interactive experiences with a deep passion for code and creativity.
- You have 6+ years of experience with front-end technologies for prototyping (HTML, CSS, JS + React)
- You have experience collaborating with designers, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders to drive solutions that synthesise product, design, and technical requirements
- You have an aptitude and a desire to pick up new technologies, playing around with them, and finding unique ways to use them.
- (Nice to have) You have experience in understanding and using back-end or data services.

**About the team**:

- **You'll be part of the Digital Marketing Group, working closely with a few teams including Digital Activations and Foundations team**:

- Digital Marketing Group The Digital Marketing mission is to “Our mission is...To connect Canva to every user with engaging and effective digital experiences”. Digital Marketing designs and builds digital experiences to support goals and strategies across Marketing. Our work ranges from web development to physical-interactive Marketing campaigns to connect Canva to users globally. Our goal is to ensure technical solutions for Marketing are effective, optimised for user experience, and drive discovery of our brand and product to generate signups for MAUs and revenue.
- ** Digital Activation Team**:The Digital Activation team is responsible for developing digital experiences that engage with customers and enhance brand awareness. Their primary focus is to create digital solutions for campaigns, events, and initiatives to reach and interact with customers. They work closely with the Creative and Brand teams to ensure that the digital experiences they create are high performing and aligned with the brand's overall objectives, creativity, and messaging. The Digital Activation team plays a crucial role in driving customer engagement and helping Canva build a stronger digital presence with new and existing customers globally to become the most loved brand in the world. Examples of the team's work include:

- ** Foundations team**: The Foundations team is responsible for improving the velocity of engineering & design delivery within Digital Marketing. Owning initiatives to improve engineering and design's ways of working and allow Marketing specialities to quickly turn ideas into beautiful landing pages.
- But don't just take our word for it, check out what Design Lead - Chen Zhang has to say about working in Design at Canva -"I
- **love working at Canva because I really am empowering the world to design by designing"
**What's in it for you?
- Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.- Here's a taste of what's on offer:
- Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leav