Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Home and Content Management group, a team focused on improving design organization and collaboration within the platform. This new team will build features for Canva's home page and editor, enhancing user experience for over 170 million users. The Engineering Manager role involves leading a team of engineers, setting goals, fostering collaboration, and overseeing technical strategy. The ideal candidate possesses proven leadership experience, software engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and a measurement-oriented mindset. Canva offers a range of benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Proven success in people and technical leadership
• Previous experience as a Software Engineer - in tune with software engineering fundamentals and first principles; and are comfortable contributing to design documents
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to clearly articulate problems and solutions
• Strong ability to influence and work cross-functionally across several internal teams, to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds, with different expertise, and with different professional and personal needs
• Measurement-oriented, and have an experimentation mindset

Responsibilities

• Lead motivated engineers who build, run, and analyze features across the Canva product
• Coach engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goals
• Set clear goals for the team and rally the team to execution on those goals
• Ensure that there is a healthy environment for collaboration and that the engineering culture within the team is open, pragmatic, and encouraging
• Own the team’s development methodology and rituals such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Lead the team’s technical strategy and roadmap in collaboration with various stakeholders
• Write and review design documents, break projects down into milestones, and be responsible for project delivery
• Work in cross-functional teams with UI/UX designers, content designers, product managers, and engineers (including QA and data analysts) to meet the needs of your team

Benefits

• 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 supports you personally