Canva Careers – VP of Product Design in Wythenshawe, UK

Overview

Position Title:VP of Product Design

Company:Canva

Location:Wythenshawe, UK

Job Description:

At Canva, our mission is to democratise design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform. Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and a remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the world, one design at a time.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a talented, diverse, and inclusive team of Product Designers that consistently deliver amazing user experiences across Canva.
• Set the interaction design, UI, and UX standards for the entire Canva product; ensuring a high-quality bar for everything we release.
• Show the future of the Canva product by galvanizing the Product Design Leads towards a compelling, convergent user experience.
• Sustain our existing culture of design simplicity. Ensuring that each new feature added, each new product launched is simple, elegant, and usable.
• Clearly communicate future design directions with key stakeholders including Group Leads, Design Leaders, and Founders.
• Partner closely with Product Specialty Leads, Engineering Specialty Leads, and Founders to shape the product roadmap, both short-term and long-term.
• Plan for future design resourcing needs with the Head of Design and Product Design Leads.
• Help provide clarity to the Product Design Specialty through clear articulation of vision, strategy.

Requirements:

• You are a strong Product Design visionary, executor, and team-builder. You’ve already got a track record to back it up.
• You weigh up every line in the Product Design that you lead. You have a passion for the power that simplicity plays in making products powerful and accessible.
• You have a high bar for everything your team ships, believing that every last detail is important and collectively makes a difference to the user experience.
• You have a knack for seeing where Product Design can converge across the whole product, rallying them to an integrated storyline that shows the future.
• You’re empathetic, flexible, and fallible. You listen actively and always seek to understand. However, people always know where you stand.
• You know that the best teams are diverse and inclusive. You’re driven to create something special, to really make a difference in what a great design team looks like.