Senior Art Director, Campaigns

Summary

Join Canva's creative team and redefine how the world experiences design. Work remotely from the country specified in the job ad, enjoying ultimate flexibility. As a Senior Art Director, you'll elevate Canva's global brand campaigns, tackling complex design challenges and ensuring high-quality work. You'll lead and inspire a team, collaborating with various departments to bring campaigns to life. Leverage data-driven insights to refine creative decisions and develop a deep understanding of consumer behavior. Partner with executive leadership to develop team craft initiatives. Canva celebrates diverse skills and backgrounds.

Requirements

• You have 6+ years of agency and/or client-side campaign experience, as a Senior Art Director who has successfully delivered global campaigns across multiple channels
• Design and ideation are your superpowers. You're able to visualise the brand and our product in campaigns
• You have experience leading a team of designers, with knowledge on how to inspire them
• Excellent design craft and copywriting skills, and a portfolio that shows experience with Campaign Creative
• You have an understanding that spans digital design, product design and Figma is key to this to help ensure sure that your vision is fully realised
• You have excellent verbal and visual communication skills, allowing you to communicate complex information simply and clearly
• You thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment that requires the ability to problem solve, drive chaos to clarity, and maintain personal resilience
• You’re an energy giver with a positive outlook. A natural empathetic teammate, with a consistent track record of cross-functional leadership and partnership

Responsibilities

• Help achieve Canva’s business targets and brand goals through big ideas and design direction for global campaigns
• Inspire the creative team, providing direction, mentorship and coaching, mobilizing them to execute exceptional creative
• Design creative solutions for Canva's campaigns, with strong collaboration with our product and motion teams to ensure we are representing our product in the best light in our campaigns
• Direct meaningful content including; animations, videos and graphic images for multiple media touch points
• Articulate creative decisions and connect strategy with decisions
• Collaborate with a team of designers, copywriters, motion designers, videographers, producers and other groups to bring campaigns to life
• Manage and work with multiple stakeholders across the organization
• Use insights and data to refine creative decisions to ensure our customer needs are always considered
• Conduct research, brainstorm, sketch, prototype, and collaborate to create ground-breaking work
• Develop a deep understanding of consumer targets’ mindsets, attitudes and behaviours to inform strong creative development
• Partner with our Executive Creative Director & Creative Directors to develop craft initiatives for the team, to help grow their skills

Preferred Qualifications

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!