AI Audio Designer (12-month, Contract)

Location: Team Design

Team: Country Sydney / Australia

About the Role

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design at Canva! We're seeking an AI Audio Designer for a 12-month full-time contract within our innovative Design team in Sydney, Australia. In this hybrid role, you'll pioneer generative audio capabilities in the AI Content Studio Team (AICS), collaborating with specialists across Templates, Ingest, Product, Engineering, and Licensing to deliver world-class music, SFX, and voice assets. Be part of Canva's bold mission to empower everyone to design, shipping AI audio that sparks creativity for millions of users worldwide. You'll generate production-ready AI audio at pace, refining prompts, building ingest workflows, and ensuring discoverability through smart taxonomy and metadata. From post-production polish in DAWs to analyzing feedback for continuous improvement, you'll create reusable playbooks that scale our creative AI impact. Thoughtful about ethics and safety, you'll escalate concerns with clarity while keeping projects moving in our fast-paced, collaborative culture. Canva thrives on diverse talent and big ideas—whether you've shipped massive audio libraries or iterated AI models, bring your passion for sound design and innovation. Even if you don't match every qualification, we want to hear from you. Check out lifeatcanva.com to experience our vibrant, designer-first world and apply to shape the future of creative audio!

Key Responsibilities

• Generate high-quality AI audio assets including music, SFX, and voice that ship to production
• Refine AI prompts, presets, and evaluation sets while aligning to style guides and safety guardrails
• Build scalable ingest-ready workflows for naming, metadata, rights clearance, QA, and rollback processes
• Enhance audio discoverability through strategic naming, tagging, and taxonomy design
• Analyze user data and feedback to continuously improve audio quality, diversity, and effectiveness
• Create and publish reusable documentation, playbooks, and templates to empower team scalability
• Escalate safety, rights, or consent issues with clear context to relevant stakeholders
• Collaborate with Templates, Ingest, Product, Engineering, and Licensing teams on AI audio initiatives
• Support rapid iteration based on briefs, providing actionable feedback to keep projects moving
• Ensure all audio content meets Canva's standards for creative impact and global accessibility

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience building and shipping large volumes of music, SFX, or voice content with high quality standards
• Deep expertise in DAWs and post-production techniques including fades, trims, loops, and mix balance
• Hands-on experience with metadata management, file naming, tagging, and content ingest workflows
• Demonstrated ability to work with AI tools for prompt design, quality evaluation, and batch iteration
• Strong understanding of audio ethics, consent, safety, and rights management with escalation experience
• Ability to work full-time on a 12-month contract in a hybrid environment in Sydney, Australia
• Experience delivering content at pace while maintaining clarity, compliance, and creative excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in creative AI content generation or audio production for digital platforms
• Familiarity with taxonomy design, discoverability strategies, and content publishing workflows
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and licensing
• Knowledge of Canva's design ecosystem or similar visual-first creative tools
• Portfolio showcasing AI-generated audio integrated into design or multimedia projects

Required Skills

• AI audio generation (music, SFX, voice)
• Prompt engineering and refinement
• DAW proficiency (e.g., Ableton, Logic, Pro Tools)
• Post-production audio editing (fades, trims, loops, mixing)
• Metadata and file naming conventions
• Content ingest and QA workflows
• Taxonomy and tagging for discoverability
• Data analysis for audio quality improvement
• Ethical AI practices and safety guardrails
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Rapid iteration from creative briefs
• Documentation and playbook creation
• Rights management and compliance
• Attention to audio detail and polish
• Feedback synthesis and escalation

Benefits

• Join a world-class Design team pioneering creative AI at Canva's Sydney campus
• Hybrid work model combining collaborative in-office energy with flexibility
• Work on cutting-edge AI audio projects that reach millions of global creators
• Cross-functional collaboration with top talent in Product, Engineering, and Content
• Access to Canva's innovative tools, learning resources, and creative community
• 12-month full-time contract with potential for impactful, high-visibility contributions
• Inclusive culture celebrating diverse skills, backgrounds, and pronouns
• Virtual contractor accreditation process with reasonable adjustments available

Canva is an equal opportunity employer.