Brand Designer, Design School (Contract) Sydney/Melbourne

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Alongside our global campuses, we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. While we support flexible, remote-friendly ways of working, for this role we’re focusing on Sydney/Melbourne so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This is a short term engagement from 1st Feb - 16th April working full time hours.

What you’d be doing in this role

Brand Designers at Canva are more than pixel pushers – they’re problem-solvers, storytellers, and brand stewards. Within the Design School, we use our craft to build memorable educational experiences. We bring consistency to how Canva shows up globally and adapt visual systems that help people learn, grow, and fall in love with design.

• You’ll design and ship engaging Learn & Play activities for key product launches
• You’ll become an expert in Canva’s features and creative possibilities
• You’ll collaborate with education, product, and marketing teams to align messaging and interactivity
• You’ll create content that’s visually delightful, on-brand, and rooted in great learning design
• You’ll test and iterate on content to improve user outcomes and engagement
• You create in-product educational design activities that are fun, playful, and effective
• You use Canva to design engaging, high-quality content that teaches through doing
• You collaborate with product marketing, education, and design stakeholders
• You distill new product features into quick, guided experiences for a global audience
• You ideate and prototype gamified or interactive learning formats
• You uphold Canva’s visual language while exploring creative, joyful design approaches

You're probably a match if

• You’re a Canva power user with great design instincts and a passion for teaching through play.
• You know how to make things beautiful and functional.
• You love turning new tools into accessible creative adventures.
• You’re proactive, curious, and collaborative—ready to turn complex concepts into clear, compelling visual learning experiences.

About the team

Canva’s in-house Creative Team is on a mission to make Canva one of the most locally loved brands in the world. Within that, the Design School Creative team crafts world-class educational experiences across certifications, tutorials, and editorial storytelling. We work closely with educators, designers, and producers to bring ideas to life and help learners succeed. We move fast, collaborate deeply, and bring strategic thinking to every brief—always with a learner-first mindset.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience, skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

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!

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