[Hiring] Senior Product Design Manager - Discovery Group @Canva

Jul 07, 2024 - Canva Hiring: Remote Senior Product Design Manager - Discovery Group

💸 Salary: Equity packages, inclusive parental leave, annual allowance, flexible leave options. 📍Location: Australia.

Company Description

Job Description

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. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What You’d Be Doing in This Role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. Here are some key responsibilities you'll take on as a Senior Product Design Manager - Discovery Group:

• Coaching and Leadership: Lead a team of 5 Product Designers, providing coaching, feedback, and guidance to support their growth.
• Vision and Strategy: Define the design vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Discovery Group, collaborating with senior stakeholders.
• Scaling the Product Design Team: Plan for future design resourcing needs within your team.
• Shaping Design Processes: Drive design best practices for greater impact and efficiency across the team.
• Prioritization: Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to ensure prioritization of the most valuable features.
• Research: Support teams in diving into competitors, trends, patterns, best practices, UX design inspiration, and user/business insights.
• Partnering with Leadership: Play a key role in shaping the strategy and goals of the supergroup and Product Design specialty.

You're Probably a Match If You Have

• End-to-End Product Design Experience: 8-10 years as a Product Designer, Interaction Designer, or Researcher, with experience in leading projects within Discovery or Applied AI being a plus.
• Leadership Experience: 3+ years managing a team of Product Designers, nurturing their development and growth.
• Technical Collaboration Experience: Worked closely with engineers and data scientists to integrate machine learning and other technologies.
• Effective Communication Skills: Capable of simplifying complex concepts and confidently presenting them to the broader team.
• A Data-Driven Approach: Leveraged both quantitative and qualitative data to create beautiful experiences.
• Experience in Global Markets: Understand designing for different languages and cultures.
• Experience Working with Content Creators: Enjoy collaborating with graphic designers, videographers, and photographers.

About the Team

The Discovery Group’s mission is to enable users to find and generate content that empowers the world to design. We focus on developing intuitive and adaptive product experiences that enhance the creative process. By bridging the gap between inspiration and realization, we aim to offer tools that transform ideas into visually compelling stories.

We envision a world where every person and team has access to their creative collaborator. Working across key product surfaces like search, our marketplace of templates, photos, icons, and generative AI interfaces, our goal is to create an intuitive platform where users can effortlessly discover, experiment, and express their unique visual styles.

Part of the Content & Discovery supergroup, this team includes some of the best engineers and designers globally, working together to tackle the industry's toughest challenges.

What's in It for You?

Achieving our ambitious goals motivates us to work hard, but you'll also experience numerous moments of magic, connectivity, and fun woven throughout life at Canva. We offer a range of benefits to set you up for success both inside and outside of work.

Here’s a taste of what’s on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be your success too
• Inclusive