Company Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hello, g’day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!
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Job Description
Where and how you can work
This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract – working full-time hours per week.
Our flagship office is in Sydney, Australia, but we’ve made our way from down under, to a hub San Francisco, which is now home to our US operations. This is a fully remote role based in the US – Los Angeles is strongly preferred so you can overlap with our Sydney-based team during key creative touch points. You’ll be set up to produce content independently from home, and Canva provides all the gear you need to do your best work.
We offer flexibility in how and where you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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.
This isn’t a traditional videographer role. Think less “receives a brief, shoots, delivers back” and more creative collaborator who also happens to be great with a camera (or a phone). You’ll be embedded in Canva’s organic social team – the people behind @Canva on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn – helping to build Canva’s presence in the US at the speed of culture.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Shooting and editing social-first content, primarily on iPhone – fast, reactive, and built for TikTok and Instagram
Concepting original ideas and bringing them to the table, not just executing briefs
Monitoring US trends, pop culture, and breaking moments in real time, and turning them into content same-day when needed
Collaborating closely with the Social Lead to develop entertainment-led series and culturally resonant brand acts that build audience engagement at scale
Delivering a mix of lo-fi reactive content and more polished, cinematic edits – knowing when each is right
Jumping into light graphic or meme formats if that’s in your wheelhouse
You’re probably a match if:
You’re a social-first creator, equally comfortable shooting on an iPhone as you are behind a camera, and you know which one to reach for
You live on TikTok and Instagram – you understand hooks, trends, and what makes people stop scrolling, and you bring that instinct to every brief
You concept, not just execute, you bring ideas to the table proactively and can take one from spark to post independently
You’ve worked at speed: Reactive, same-day production is something you’re used to, not something that stresses you out
You’re fluent in Adobe Premiere Pro; CapCut or DaVinci Resolve works too
You have some experience in a corporate or agency environment and handle structure and process well
About the team
Canva’s Social team is obsessed with one thing: making content people actually want to watch, share, and talk about. We’re in an entertainment-led era – backing bold ideas, moving fast, and never being precious about how things have always been done. Our goal is to become the #1 brand on social, and we’re building the creative engine to get there.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills, merit and business needs, in compliance with applicable local laws.
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!
When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
At Canva we value fairness, and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. When calculating offers, we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates’ skills and experience.
