Country Manager

Summary

Join Canva's International team as the Country Manager for Brazil and lead the charge in redefining design experiences globally. Based remotely, you will spearhead user and revenue growth, developing and executing a cohesive multi-year strategy. Collaborate with global and local teams across various departments to optimize product, content, and pricing for the Brazilian market. Hire, inspire, and coach a high-performing team, manage budgets, and build key relationships. Represent Canva as a local figurehead, engaging with press, PR, events, and the community. This role demands strong entrepreneurial spirit, proven market growth experience, exceptional leadership, and communication skills.

Requirements

• You are strongly entrepreneurial
• Founder-style appetite for growing something big from a small start and working across everything from education to press
• You possess experience growing a market
• For example, as the regional GM or brand lead for a global SaaS company, or as a proven founder or growth lead in a startup in a high growth environment
• You are a proven leader
• Ability to grow, inspire, and coach high-performing teams
• You have high emotional intelligence and empathy, and are a deeply collaborative teammate
• You are a strong communicator
• Fully proficient in spoken and written English, and with the interpersonal skills to influence global and local stakeholders
• You are keenly analytical
• Deeply focused on KPIs and obsessive about driving actionable insights from disparate datasets and able to think about a market’s performance holistically
• You are product oriented
• Passion for improving the experience of users and the ability to translate local insights into product requirements with experience localising a global product for a particular market
• You are values aligned
• Genuinely excited by Canva’s mission and deeply aligned with our values, and with exceptional references to prove it
• You are publicity savvy
• Experience doing public speaking and acting as a public face to the press and other stakeholders
• You are well networked
• Ideally with routes into some combination of government departments, corporates, influencers, journalists and local talent

Responsibilities

• Act as the main leadership point of contact with responsibility for overall user and revenue growth in Brazil
• Bring together local and global teams across marketing, sales, product, content and finance to create and execute a cohesive multi-year growth strategy, and own the KPIs including MAUs and ARR
• Work closely with the regional team to optimise our product, content, pricing and packaging to meet the needs of local users, informed by a deep understanding of local market dynamics and cultural nuances across a range of audiences, including knowledge workers, SMBs, students, startup ecosystems, NGOs, and other emerging sectors
• Hire, inspire, drive and in some cases coach the in-market team, ensuring a high quality bar for impact and working closely with local speciality leads on performance management
• Partner closely with the regional team and marketing lead to shape the marketing strategy and deployment of budget
• Build and support high value relationships by acting as a local sponsor for enterprise sales, education, government, partnerships, etc
• Represent Canva as a local figurehead across press, PR, events and community

Benefits

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy
• An annual Vibe & Thrive package 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