Senior Copywriter (Campaigns)

Summary

Join Canva's creative team as a skilled Copywriter to support its mission of empowering design. This 5-month, full-time contract role, allows for remote work globally, involves collaborating with Art Directors to create impactful messaging for various high-visibility projects. You will develop unique marketing ideas, craft clear and inspiring content across multiple channels, and translate complex concepts into engaging language for diverse product lines. This role enhances Canva's reach and user engagement through brand campaigns, landing pages, emails, tutorials, and more. The ideal candidate possesses proven copywriting experience, understands brand marketing channels, and is passionate about creating impactful work for a global brand. The role requires strong collaboration skills and attention to detail.

Requirements

• You have proven experience as a copywriter, either agency or client side (in-house)
• You have an understanding of brand marketing channels and advertising best practices
• You have a passion for innovative, blue sky ideation and a strong desire to make impactful work that will help to build an iconic global brand
• You’re a team player. Able to work in a dynamic multi-skilled agile environment
• You’re a master storyteller, able to sell the brand and its products to myriad demographics and personas with a consistent tone of voice
• Attention to detail, style and tone. You write with clarity and empathy, and can write in a range of genres, styles and tones
• You have a good grasp of English, sentence construction, and grammatical structure. And because less than 50% of our community is English speaking, you consider the needs of internationalisation in every word
• You bring others along for the ride. Set expectations with stakeholders, communicate openly across multiple teams, and collaborate with multiple creatives to get the job done
• You’re not precious. Open to giving and receiving feedback and can clearly articulate how copy can be improved

Responsibilities

• Partnering with Art Directors to develop ideas and execute messaging that is consistent, effective, and accessible across Canva’s multi-channel campaigns
• Translating big, complex ideas into clear, user-friendly messaging that aligns with Canva’s mission and vision
• Write, review, and edit flawless, on-brand copy across channels, ensuring each asset enhances user engagement
• Creating a playbook of high-quality content for a range of initiatives, from brand campaigns to standalone assets, working closely with designers, strategists, and producers
• Collaborating with the Creative Copy Lead to keep messaging on-brand and aligned with Canva’s evolving strategic direction
• Balancing creativity, simplicity, and playfulness to create engaging, compelling copy that’s easy to digest and impactful

Benefits

• This is a 5-month contract with full-time hours
• As a Contract or Freelancer at Canva you can work remotely in the country listed on this job ad, meaning you have ultimate flexibility