Engineering Director - Core IT
Role Overview
The role sets Canva's IT strategy and translates business priorities into a technology roadmap.
The role is part of Core IT, which supports technology across global campuses and everyday employee operations.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role focus
The role sets Canva's IT strategy and translates business priorities into a technology roadmap.
The role is part of Core IT, which supports technology across global campuses and everyday employee operations.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and develop high-performing teams through clear direction, capability building, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Build workforce technology covering onboarding, device management, tools, access, AI, automation, and collaboration.
- Use data to measure service quality, prioritize work, surface risks, and communicate progress to executive stakeholders.
- Represent IT in organizational and company-wide forums and advocate for investment and strategic alignment.
- Own the highest-priority in-flight initiatives and ensure delivery remains on track.
Candidate profile
- Experience leading internal technology functions at meaningful scale.
- Ability to build high-trust relationships with executive stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Curiosity about using technology to improve how people work.
- Ability to set a vision, build teams, and maintain quality without slowing delivery.
- Commercial understanding of the relationship between technology decisions and business outcomes.
- Leadership approach focused on developing people and enabling teams to perform at their best.
Core IT team
Core IT has more than 80 people across Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Europe, and the United States.
The team supports campus AV, network infrastructure, physical security, onboarding, device and access management, AI, and automation.
Selected benefits
- Benefits include equity packages, inclusive parental leave, an annual wellbeing and office-setup allowance, and flexible leave options.
Workplace
- Canva has a flagship campus in Sydney, a campus in Melbourne, and coworking spaces in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.
- The posting describes flexibility in where and how employees work, while source metadata identifies the role as onsite.
About canva
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