Leading Business Solutions Engineering, setting direction, priorities, and delivering high-impact transformation initiatives
Building deep partnerships with leaders across Finance, People, Legal, GTM and more to uncover and solve complex operational challenges
Driving end-to-end solution delivery — from discovery and design through to production-grade implementation
Coaching and growing a multidisciplinary engineering team, uplifting standards and ways of working
Identifying reusable components (APIs, integrations, automation patterns) and partnering with AI & Automation Platform teams to scale them
Pioneering pragmatic AI adoption, helping teams leverage LLMs and automation effectively
Hiring and developing exceptional engineering talent while contributing to Canva-wide hiring efforts

You have a strong hands-on software engineering background and have built production systems in complex, ambiguous environments
You’ve led and scaled high-performing engineering teams, with a passion for coaching and developing others
You’re experienced in system integration, APIs, and platform thinking across tools like Salesforce, Workday, or similar ecosystems
You bring strong cloud experience (AWS and/or GCP) and understand build vs buy trade-offs
You’ve applied AI/ML or automation technologies in real-world scenarios and understand their practical limitations
You’re an exceptional stakeholder partner — able to translate business needs into technical solutions and influence senior leaders
You thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and bring an entrepreneurial mindset to solving problems

Senior Engineering Manager – Business Solutions Engineering

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