Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Canva's dynamic team and redefine the world's experience with design. This role offers flexibility in work location, allowing you to work from the office, home, or a hybrid model. You will work with diverse stakeholders to define and deliver key business outcomes, driving goal planning and delivery practices. The position requires a minimum of 5 years of TPM experience in a SaaS company and strong leadership skills. Canva offers a comprehensive benefits package including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a wellbeing allowance, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 5 years TPM experience at a SaaS company with hands on experience in driving large programs of work
• Be motivated to provide an inclusive and psychologically safe environment for our diverse team to collaborate together, in a timely fashion, towards shared goals
• Be knowledgeable in technical concepts and have an ability to apply them to technical spaces
• Have experience leading and influencing Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver key company strategic initiatives
• Be comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• Be a natural communicator who leads through influence, not authority and loves navigating complexity and tackling ambiguous problems
• Demonstrate leadership capability to ensure clarity, alignment and accountability to achieve our crazy big goals
• Be process-oriented but flexible in approach
• Be dedicated to personal growth and improving in your craft as a TPM
• Have the ability to think strategically but also able to make crazy big goals happen. This role will be very hands-on!

Responsibilities

• Work with a varied group of stakeholders to define and deliver key business outcomes
• Support team and group leadership in driving goal planning & delivery practices - including how we scope, prioritise, estimate and plan capacity for teams
• Ensure clear visibility around all of the work teams are doing (or not doing) and when it will be done. (e.g. Helping build and align roadmap across the teams; collaborate with team leads to optimise delivery reporting & tooling )
• Provide program or project management to support large cross team and/or cross continental company goals - tracking program status, capturing issues, mitigating risks, managing cross group and/or supergroup dependencies, facilitating timely decision making etc
• Drive core delivery practices across teams to ensure they are operationally set up to scale and are running at optimal velocity
• Understand the technical solution, be able to facilitate technical discussions with Engineering teams, help identify and close gaps
• Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to influence decisions, drive alignment and prioritization
• Facilitate continual improvement rituals to build the effectiveness of product development and engineering teams
• Build a culture and environment to achieve excellence and innovation

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