Engineering Director - Print

Company Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, g'day!

Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

Our offices are a hub for collaboration and energy. But we also believe in working where you do your best thinking. Canva offers flexibility to work in a way that suits you — whether that's remote, hybrid, or in-office. This role is based in Sydney, close to the majority of the Print engineering team.

Job Description

About the team

Canva Print has 110+ people across Australia, the Philippines, and the United States, with a 70+-person technology org predominantly based in Sydney. We cover the full print funnel end-to-end — from helping people discover, design, and buy print-on-demand products to working with the print partners who manufacture and deliver them worldwide. We're building an e-commerce-first Print experience and working to grow Print's annual revenue while keeping sustainability at the core of what we do, including initiatives like one-print-one-tree.

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.

Canva Print brings Canva designs into the real world, helping people and businesses turn their ideas into products they can hold, share and use. We’re making it easier for anyone to bring an idea from the screen to the physical world, and building toward a billion-dollar business with the scale, complexity and ambition to match. We’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead engineering across Canva Print: a leadership role where your impact comes through the leaders you grow, the strategy you set and the bar you hold.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Setting and delivering Print's technical strategy, partnering with the Product and Design leads (the group triad) to turn it into goals teams can rally behind

• Coaching and growing the Engineering Leads who run our Print teams, and building a healthy leadership pipeline

• Owning the quality of technical decisions across the group, and steering the big ones yourself

• Translating engineering trade-offs into plain terms so non-technical stakeholders can make good calls

• Building a safe, high-performing, growth-oriented culture — hiring, developing, and managing performance across the org

• Owning engineering's contribution to Print's commercial and revenue outcomes

• Championing how the team adopts AI, both in what we build for customers and how we build it

You're probably a match if

• You've led engineering organisations at meaningful scale, including coaching and growing other engineering managers and leads

• You bring strong technical judgement — comfortable weighing long-term trade-offs and making sure the right expertise is in the room, even where you're not the deepest expert yourself

• You have a track record of turning technical strategy into goals and roadmaps that teams actually deliver against

• You think commercially and understand how engineering decisions connect to revenue and business outcomes

• You communicate well and build real rapport across product, design, operations, and partner teams

• You're comfortable in a fast-growing, ambiguous environment where the role evolves as the business scales

• Experience running an e-commerce or marketplace business is a strong plus

• You're a genuine people leader — building inclusive, high-performing cultures, resolving conflict, and running fair performance and calibration processes

About the team

Canva Print is 110+ people across Australia, the Philippines, and the United States, with a 70+ person technology org predominantly based in Sydney. We cover the full print funnel end to end — from helping people discover, design, and buy print on demand products, to working with the print partners who manufacture and deliver them worldwide. We're building an e-commerce-first Print experience and working to grow Print's annual revenue while keeping sustainability at the core of what we do, including initiatives like one-print-one-tree.

Additional Information

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.