Engineering Manager (FE) - Learning Experience (Remote ANZ)

Location: Team Engineering

Team: Country Sydney / Australia

About the Role

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design at Canva's Learning Experience group. Our mission is to ignite creativity in every learner by creating fun, accessible tools that save teachers and course creators time while driving engagement and long-term retention. In the first half of 2025, we're launching compelling new features for Canva's Courses, Lessons, and interactive elements to make learning irresistibly engaging. As an Engineering Manager (FE) - Learning Experience (Remote ANZ), you'll lead a frontend team building AI-generated learning content and a revolutionary learning library, all while contributing hands-on to deliver pixel-perfect, scalable experiences that empower educators and learners worldwide. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll drive technical strategy, coach engineers toward career growth, and foster a high-performing, inclusive culture within Canva's collaborative, design-obsessed environment. Partnering closely with design, product, and data teams, you'll shape intuitive solutions that align with our goal of evolving Canva into a best-in-class learning platform. Your pragmatic approach will break ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes, ensuring we deliver innovative features that resonate with users in schools, campuses, and workplaces. Canva's innovative culture celebrates curiosity, empowers autonomy, and thrives on cross-functional magic. With flexible Remote ANZ options, equity packages, inclusive parental leave, and a Vibe & Thrive allowance, we support your success in and out of work. If you have strong frontend expertise (TypeScript/React), leadership experience, and a passion for ed-tech, bring your growth mindset to help democratize design and education. We welcome diverse backgrounds—apply if this sparks your creativity!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a motivated frontend engineering team building AI-generated learning content and a new learning library
• Design and deliver intuitive, scalable user experiences for learners and educators
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, product, and data partners to shape meaningful solutions
• Drive technical strategy and lead team rituals including planning, retrospectives, and reviews
• Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback and career growth conversations
• Set clear team goals and foster an open, inclusive, high-performing culture
• Actively contribute to feature development as a hands-on technical leader
• Stay current with frontend best practices to continuously improve performance and usability
• Align team efforts with Learning Experience group's mission to ignite creativity in every learner
• Launch new features enhancing engagement in Canva's Courses, Lessons, and interactive elements

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in frontend engineering with TypeScript/React or similar frameworks
• Prior leadership experience coaching engineers and managing high-performing teams
• Proven ability to break ambitious ideas into actionable, measurable outcomes
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional squads with design, product, data, and QA teams
• Comfortable getting hands-on with code to support team delivery
• Demonstrated product sensibility and empathy for end users, particularly educators and learners
• Ability to lead with context rather than control, empowering teams to solve problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the learning or ed-tech sector, building tools for teaching or learning
• Background in creating AI-generated content or learning libraries
• Proven track record in scalable, accessible user experience design
• Familiarity with Canva's design ecosystem and mission to democratize design

Required Skills

• TypeScript/React frontend development
• Scalable UI/UX design principles
• Accessible user experience craftsmanship
• Team leadership and coaching
• Technical strategy and roadmap planning
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Hands-on coding and debugging
• Agile rituals (planning, retros, reviews)
• Product sensibility and user empathy
• Performance optimization
• AI-generated content integration
• Ed-tech domain knowledge
• Contextual leadership style
• Growth mindset and adaptability
• Inclusive team culture building
• Goal setting and measurement

Benefits

• Equity packages to share in Canva's success
• Inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents and carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
• Flexible leave options to recharge, give back, and care for yourself
• Choice in work location across Sydney campus, Melbourne, or co-working spaces in ANZ (Remote ANZ)
• Moments of magic, connection, and fun woven throughout life at Canva
• Access to flagship Sydney campus and collaborative co-working spaces
• Support for professional growth in a design-focused, innovative culture

Canva is an equal opportunity employer.