Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Canva's Growth Supergroup as a TPM and be the driving force behind creating a sustainable culture of delivery. You will influence stakeholders, monitor delivery status, and partner with operations to mature processes. This role requires managing program risks, dependencies, and decision-making practices, while ensuring consistency across teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of TPM experience at a SaaS company and experience with product-led growth. Canva offers flexible work arrangements, equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5+ years TPM experience at a SaaS company & hands on experience in driving large programs of work
• Have experience with product lead growth or product lead sales motions. Understanding what customer actions could signal intent to move through the conversion funnel for B2B users
• Knowledgeable in technical concepts and an ability to apply them to technical spaces
• Deep understanding of Agile product development processes
• Experience leading and influencing Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver key company strategic initiatives
• Comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• A natural communicator who leads through influence, not authority and loves navigating complexity and tackling ambiguous problems
• Leadership capability to ensure clarity, alignment and accountability to achieve our crazy big goals
• Ability to think strategically but also able to make crazy big goals happen. This role will be very hands-on!

Responsibilities

• Be the driving force for creating a sustainable culture of delivery in a fast paced environment
• Influence, guide and steer a broad cross functional set of stakeholders in delivery of a large portfolio of strategic programs
• Monitor and track delivery status across your group , teams and cross functional programs
• Partner with our Operations team and lead on maturing our processes, communications and leadership engagement
• Promote accountability towards creating a sense positive urgency in delivery across the groups and teams
• Manage open issues relating to program delivery
• Assess and manage program risks, issues and decisions
• Manage dependencies across the Super Groups and Groups
• Facilitate effective, timely and transparent group and program decision making practices
• Ensure an appropriate degree of consistency in planning, documentation and core practices across teams to ensure meaningful velocity and promote our ability to scale how teams work across Canva
• Facilitate continual improvement rituals to build the effectiveness of product development and engineering teams
• Build a culture and environment to achieve excellence and innovation
• Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to influence decisions, drive alignment and prioritisation
• Partner with the TPM specialty to help codify and build the TPM craft and practice

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