Visual Designer (ux/ui) - Company Squad
Canva, Australia

We’re constantly working towards making Canva the best place to work, for everyone. We believe deeply that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key for building the best product for our equally diverse community all around the world. We celebrate uniqueness and whatever makes you, you and encourage everyone who wants to help us transform the way the world designs, to join us on this journey. We value all different types of experiences. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you.
About UsAt Canva, our mission is to democratise design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform. Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory we’re out to change the world, one design at a time.
Since launch in August 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 60 million monthly active users across 190 different countries who have created more than 6 Billion designs. We are one of the world’s fastest-growing technology companies and we have only achieved about 1% of what we want to do.
About the group amp; team
Our Brand mission is to become the most-loved brand in the world. Working within the Creative Group, the Company Squad will deliver digital experiences that help communicate Canva’s brand messaging and strategic company initiatives. The Company Squad’s responsibility is for maintaining and optimising digital experiences for critical company pages for including About us, Careers, Newsroom and Sustainability. An incredible opportunity to help develop our brand awareness, that has a direct impact on our MAUs and revenue goals, as well as setting great first impressions to attract top talent.
We’re actively working towards making Canva the best place to work, for everyone. Digital designers in the Company Squad will have the opportunity to collaborate with teams across the business from Brand, Product, PR amp; Comms, and Talent Acquisition.
About the Digital Design specialty
Visual Designers, otherwise known as Digital Designers at Canva, are part of our Brand amp; Creative specialty alongside Brand designers, Motion designers, Videographers, Photographers etc..Canva’s in-house creative team is on a mission to make Canva the most loved brand in the world. We work from concept to creation on world-class creative across brand communications, marketing campaigns, editorial content and production.
Visual design plays a critical role at the crossroads of Brand, Marketing and Product. We have millions of people visiting our landing pages everyday and you will be responsible for making sure this first interaction with our brand is memorable by building creative, user-friendly and on-brand digital experiences that drive users to the product and inspire them to create a design. It is an incredible opportunity to help increase our brand awareness and also have a direct impact on our MAUs and ARR company goals.
Working in cross-functional teams you will help bring these designs to life from start to finish. Creating, managing, and producing visual design solutions for a variety of uses such as landing pages, websites, product graphics, email templates, brand campaigns etc.

Goals you’ll achieve:
- You'll scale and optimize a core set of existing landing pages including; About Us, Canva Newsrooms, What’s New amp; more - You'll design and deliver new pages that support company initiatives e.g. Canva’s Accessibility page, Canva Foundation - You'll research, define and drive the ongoing design strategy across our most impactful landing pages.


What you’ll do

• You'll work in a cross-functional team where you will be responsible to bring the design to life from start to finish. That may involve a wide range of tasks such as brainstorming, writing creative briefs or design documents, wireframes, visual designs, prototypes and interaction design.
• You'll contribute to the discovery phase with user stories, research, competitor analysis, wireframes, user flows etc. and help define the problem and solutions.
• You'll translate insights, data and user research into prototypes to validate ideas with stakeholders and end users.
• You'll design creative and on-brand visual solutions such as emails, banners, graphics, UI motions, landing pages and websites that drive users to the product and inspire them to create a design
• You'll work closely with engineers during implementation and review final deliverables with an exacting eye, ensuring that layout, images, typography and general experience is flawless and on-brand.
• You'll iterate and optimise pages and user flows for conversion.
• You'll design at scale keeping in mind internationalisation