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

Location: Team Engineering

Team: Country Melbourne / Australia

About the Role

Join Canva's Learning Experience team, where we're redefining how the world learns through design. As Engineering Manager (FE) - Learning Experience (Remote ANZ), you'll lead a passionate frontend team building AI-generated learning content and a revolutionary learning library. Our mission is to ignite creativity in every learner by creating fun, accessible tools that save educators time and drive engagement—evolving Canva into the best-in-class learning platform for schools, campuses, and workplaces. In the first half of 2025, you'll launch compelling features that make learning irresistible, amplifying tools like Courses, Lessons, and interactive elements. In this hands-on leadership role, you'll design scalable, intuitive experiences, drive technical strategy, and collaborate with design, product, and data partners in Canva's collaborative culture. You'll coach engineers for growth, foster inclusive high-performance teams, and contribute code to deliver ambitious outcomes. With a pragmatic approach and deep empathy for educators and learners, you'll empower your team to solve problems creatively while staying ahead of frontend best practices. Canva's design-focused, innovative spirit thrives on context-driven leadership, bold ideas, and shared success. Remote across ANZ (Melbourne/Australia base), you'll enjoy equity, flexible leave, wellbeing allowances, and the magic of Canva life. If you're passionate about democratizing design and education, bring your growth mindset—we celebrate diverse skills and backgrounds.

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 facilitate team rituals including planning, retros, 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 that make learning more engaging and increase visibility of existing tools like Courses and Lessons

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in frontend engineering with TypeScript/React or similar frameworks
• Prior leadership experience managing and coaching high-performing engineering teams
• Proven ability to break ambitious ideas into actionable, measurable outcomes
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams including design, product, and data
• Hands-on coding ability to contribute to feature development when needed
• Demonstrated product sensibility and empathy for end users, particularly educators and learners
• Comfortable leading team rituals like planning, retrospectives, and reviews

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 scaling intuitive, accessible user experiences
• Familiarity with Canva's design ecosystem and collaborative tools

Required Skills

• TypeScript/React frontend development
• Team leadership and coaching
• Technical strategy and roadmap planning
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Hands-on coding and feature development
• User experience design principles
• Accessibility and performance optimization
• Agile rituals and process facilitation
• Product sensibility and user empathy
• Ed-tech or learning platform experience
• AI-generated content integration
• Contextual leadership style
• Growth mindset and adaptability
• Inclusive team culture building
• Pragmatic delivery and outcome measurement
• Stakeholder communication

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, Melbourne, or remote ANZ with co-working spaces
• Moments of magic, connection, and fun woven throughout life at Canva
• Access to Canva's flagship campuses and collaborative design-focused environment
• Opportunities to democratize design and education through innovative learning tools

Canva is an equal opportunity employer.