Canva Senior Brand Designer To empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere Why Canva Visit website Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere. About the role Job Description Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and how you can work Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but we engage our Contractors and Freelancers all over the world to help us meet our crazy big goals. As a Contract or Freelancer at Canva you can work remotely in the country listed on this job ad, meaning you have 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. We are seeking an experienced Senior Brand Designer to join our team, with a strong background in brand design and visual storytelling. This is 3-month contract to support on one of our biggest goals - Canva Create. You’ll thrive working in a diverse team—and possess a conceptual mindset that brings fresh, inspiring ideas to life with a high level of craft. You’re a designer with a strong creative eye, capable of taking your creative from toolkit to completion keeping in step with your team. As a part of the Canva Creative Team, you’ll collaborate with multiple other teams across Canva (including Product, Leadership, and Internal Communications). Our team responds to a wide variety of briefs, engaging in brainstorming, sketching, writing, prototyping, motion, and design. You’ll work with cross-functional partners to produce impactful and cohesive brand designs across an external project to launch products, support brand campaigns, craft hype reels, and bring high-profile presentations to life. At the moment, this role is focused on: Create impactful communication design: Design assets for a range of communication brand led channels, including communication visuals, event collateral, and digital touch points to drive engagement. Visualize products and ideas: Collaborate on design concepts that bring Canva Create’s vision to life, crafting compelling visuals for products, events, and campaigns. Develop storyboards and assets: Translate concepts into storyboards, visual narratives, and polished campaign assets that resonate with our audience. Leverage a brand toolkit: Use Canva’s brand guidelines and a toolkit to ensure consistency while pushing boundaries to create fresh designs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with designers, motion specialists, copywriters, and project managers to produce cohesive and high-impact creative outputs for Canva Create. Work with stakeholders: Engage with key stakeholders across the organization, including leadership, to align on project goals and ensure brand excellence. You're probably a match if You excel at finding visual solutions, even with limited precedents or direction, and can bring clarity to complex ideas through design. You have a strong understanding of strategy and you can seamlessly navigate between ideas and pixel-perfect execution. You thrive in team environments, building trusted relationships, and helping our leads to deliver exceptional work. You're able to articulate ideas and follow through on feedback to elevate the creative output of the entire team. You’re hands-on, ready to jump into any task that helps the team meet goals and deliver exceptional outcomes. What you'll be responsible for Project Coordination Coordinate people and processes to ensure the effective and timely running of a project Leading of UX and UI Design Lead the design of product features underpinned by UX and UI Design principles to create desired user-centred experiences Customer Journey Insight Development Understand a brand’s customers and their journey throughout touch points and processes, to drive strategy for positive customer experience Skills you'll need Collaboration Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals Flexibility Copes with changes and ambiguity in varying circumstances and can adapt behaviour effectively Critical thinking Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight