Senior Product Manager - Privacy

Summary

Join Canva's team and redefine the world's experience with design. This Senior Privacy Product Manager role offers flexibility in work location (Sydney, Melbourne, or remotely). You'll be a critical contributor to Canva's user privacy vision, strategy, and roadmap, working closely with legal and engineering teams. Responsibilities include product management for privacy engineering, collaboration on compliance projects, identifying project requirements, roadmap planning, and incident handling. The ideal candidate possesses proven experience in data privacy, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across various teams. Canva offers competitive benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• As a solid Platform Product Manager, you will have well-developed skills in considering different stakeholders and frameworks, then applying them into product development of services which helps us meet and exceed the expectations of our users, particularly internal customers
• You will also have to have a good analytical lens to complement collaboration with numerous internal partner teams and work streams, in order to achieve impact through their adoption of your solutions
• You have proven experience in data privacy, dealing with consent, data sharing, data subject access requires and similar activities
• Experience crafting and/or implementing data classification and governance systems is ideal to contribute both best practices and a culture of innovation
• Can speak the language of engineering, legal, data, design, operations and can coordinate cross-functionally with each to achieve big wins

Responsibilities

• Be a critical contributor to the vision, strategy and roadmap for user privacy at Canva, working closely with privacy and product legal
• Be the Product Manager for the team of privacy engineers who build our services and tooling platform for data privacy across Canva, collaborating with privacy legal on compliance projects such as managing user preferences on messaging, ML and tracking, data minimisation, data mapping and data subject rights
• Collaborate on compliance proposals, regulator responses, and decision documents with designs, creative thinking, industry analysis, platform strategy, engineering and other constraints
• Identify requirements and constraints to deliver on privacy projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams including privacy engineering, privacy and product legal, policy, operations, data risk and compliance, and marketing
• Support roadmap planning and prioritisation and alignment between different groups including privacy legal, privacy engineering and data risk and compliance, to ensure we are all rowing in the same direction and not duplicating effort
• Plan out adoption timelines with buy-in from internal teams, balancing their immediate needs to deliver impact with long-term sustainability and efficiency
• Ensure timely delivery by staying ahead of potential risks, unblocking teams in advance
• Explore all aspects of data privacy functionality from every stakeholder’s perspective to ensure testing and delivery against their needs
• Support handling privacy incidents & assessing Canva product safety risks
• Ensure Canva’s values and policies are consistently applied in the way we take action in preserving privacy
• Build a deep understanding of the current data protection mechanisms across Canva to understand existing issues and escalation points
• Be an escalation point for incidents, and investigations including user and government concerns
• Collaborate with other data management, governance and security teams to share strategies and best practices, and minimise redundancy
• Develop thinking and analysis of data privacy management through multiple lenses, understanding the impacts and tradeoffs of different approaches
• Communicate team achievements for visibility and understanding of the risks and impact we have

Preferred Qualifications

• Alternatively, a background in data governance, compliance, ethics, identity, or other related risks like cybersecurity may transfer well if you have a passion for protecting the human right to privacy
• An innovator willing to roll up their sleeves and get into the weeds
• Ability to proactively unblock others by looking ahead to ensure problems and scope are crystal clear
• Highly collaborative and effective with the ability to lead by example, and contribute through sensible, thoughtful communication and execution
• Skilled in balancing long-term vision and strategy with timely delivery of outcomes that bring us closer to that vision
• Data driven, but comfortable moving forward even if we don’t have all the information available to us, balancing first-principles reasoning with the data that we do have at hand

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