Senior Technical Program Manager - Expansion, remote across ANZ

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Hiring Remotely in Sydney, New South Wales
Remote
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Digital Media • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Design
Join our mission to empower the world to design.
The Role
In this role, you will lead and influence cross-functional stakeholders in managing a large portfolio of strategic programs. You'll drive the delivery culture, monitor program status, and ensure effective communication and processes among teams. You'll facilitate continuous improvement in product development, manage program risks, and build a strong partnership with various teams to align priorities and achieve strategic goals.
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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. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.
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.
At the moment, this role is focused on:

  • Be the driving force for creating a sustainable culture of delivery in a fast paced environment.
  • Influence, guide and steer a broad cross functional set of stakeholders in delivery of a large portfolio of strategic programs.
  • Monitor and track delivery status across your group , teams and cross functional programs
  • Partner with our Operations team and lead on maturing our processes, communications and leadership engagement.
  • Promote accountability towards creating a sense positive urgency in delivery across the groups and teams.
  • Manage open issues relating to program delivery.
  • Assess and manage program risks, issues and decisions.
  • Manage dependencies across the Super Groups and Groups.
  • Facilitate effective, timely and transparent group and program decision making practices.
  • Ensure an appropriate degree of consistency in planning, documentation and core practices across teams to ensure meaningful velocity and promote our ability to scale how teams work across Canva.
  • Facilitate continual improvement rituals to build the effectiveness of product development and engineering teams.
  • Build a culture and environment to achieve excellence and innovation.
  • Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to influence decisions, drive alignment and prioritisation.
  • Partner with the TPM specialty to help codify and build the TPM craft and practice.


You're probably a match if

  • A minimum of 5+ years TPM experience at a SaaS company & hands on experience in driving large programs of work.
  • Have experience with product lead growth or product lead sales motions. Understanding what customer actions could signal intent to move through the conversion funnel for B2B users.
  • Knowledgeable in technical concepts and an ability to apply them to technical spaces.
  • Deep understanding of Agile product development processes.
  • Experience leading and influencing Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver key company strategic initiatives.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
  • A natural communicator who leads through influence, not authority and loves navigating complexity and tackling ambiguous problems.
  • Leadership capability to ensure clarity, alignment and accountability to achieve our crazy big goals.
  • Ability to think strategically but also able to make crazy big goals happen. This role will be very hands-on!


About the Growth Supergroup
The extraordinary growth Canva has experienced to date has been primarily bottom-up and led from within our product, and the Growth 'supergroup' is Canva's center of excellence for product-led growth.
On a mission to Empower the world to enjoy the full value of Canva, this cross-functional, global org of 400+ passionate people, is made up of five groups: Activation & Engagement, Expansion, Monetisation, Revenue Platform, High Velocity Subscriptions Growth, and Sales & Success.
The work Growth does spans from building exciting new growth-focused products & experiences, developing unique and creative growth loops and GTM tactics, launching 100s of experiments each quarter, through to building the global payments & subscriptions infrastructure that allows our monthly users worldwide to access our premium products.
The goals that this organization owns play a central role in our overall company mission and business success. This Supergroup is responsible for a number of critical company metrics, which include signup, onboarding, activation, engagement, frequency of use, retention, collaboration, and monetization - right across our Free, Pro & Team subscription products, globally.
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Here's a taste of what's on offer:

  • 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


Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above - we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Canva is a free, online tool where you can create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. Our community of 200 million+ monthly active users is already creating 280+ designs every second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our goal.

It’s hard to explain what makes life at Canva so special, but we've identified two key ingredients: talented people around the world and a values-driven culture that inspires us to do our best work. So if you’re looking to design your dream career and experience meaningful opportunities to grow, come and join us.

Why Work With Us

We're driven by our simple but radical 2 Step Plan: Step 1, become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Step 2, do the most good we can. And as part of a truly global company, you'll get to be part of our US success story from the early stages, helping us build and scale from the ground up. Find your next opportunity to have an impact.

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