Designer - Visual Content

Posted Jul 7

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney Australia but in this project you’ll be working remotely from wherever you are located. That means you have the ultimate flexibility. Wherever works for you, works for us.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

About the Group/Team


Our marketplace of templates provides the perfect place for our users to begin their design journey. The Canva team wants to work with talented designers from across the world, to redefine what’s possible for a template - creating a new benchmark for fresh, high-quality design content within our collection. We're aiming to build the world’s best design marketplace, with a library of designs that offer our users a wide variety of usable and dynamic content - and to do that, we need the help of talented designers that can create amazing content.

About the Role/Specialty

Our template library needs a range of fresh, varied, and beautiful designs - so we’re after self-motivated designers who would love to have room for creative freedom in answering briefs. We’re interested in engaging designers on a 12 month project, with the opportunity of extending our relationship to ongoing, regular design work. You’ll be creating a multitude of Canva assets including logos, posters, videos, presentations, Instagram stories, social media content (video and static), book covers, banners (video and static) and editorial content.

What you’ll do

  • Create a range of fresh, varied and beautiful designs for our users
  • Create unique concepts for beautiful templates on various themes and topics
  • Translate fresh and on-trend design styles to suit our users' needs

What we're looking for

  • Experience as a Graphic, Brand or Visual Designer creating a diverse range of digital and print collateral 
  • Experience in and a love for design trends and styles
  • A portfolio demonstrating your passion for designing user-friendly and beautiful designs.
  • Advanced design sense typography, color, conceptual graphic design, and layout creation
  • Has a keen understanding of design based on visual, cultural, and popular trends
  • Has a strong stylistic and versatile approach across multiple doctypes, and a strong foundation in what makes a good design
  • Designs with the end user’s needs in mind
  • Delivers great designs, on deadline and to brief

Please provide the following:

  • Your resume
  • A link to your portfolio 

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience, skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.