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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 or Melbourne so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.
This role is a 6-month engagement, working up to 40 hours per week.
What you’d be doing in this role
We’re looking for a Senior Copywriter to help define and deliver Canva’s brand voice inside our product.
You’ll work closely with designers, product teams, marketers, and creative leads to shape in-product messaging, product toolkits, landing pages, product narratives, hype reels, and editorial experiences.
This role requires a very confident and capable creative writer—someone who can effectively be the bridge between Product, Marketing, and Brand.
The right candidate will be capable of working hand-in-hand with designers to ideate and build on creative ideas. You’ll understand the constraints of writing in-product messaging, while also being able to bring creativity to surfaces with very limited word count. And you’ll also have experience building product messaging frameworks that bring a brand’s voice to life.
At the moment this role is focussed on:
You'll be supported by a Creative Copy Lead, ensuring your writing is on brand and aligns with our broader brand thinking and direction.
You're probably a match if
About the team
The Brand in Product squad ensures Canva’s brand shows up clearly, consistently, and creatively inside the product experience.
From major global moments like Canva Create, Canva World Tour, and Droptober, to BAU product launches and toolkit rollouts, this team bridges Product, Marketing, and Brand. We craft the messaging frameworks, in-product storytelling, editorial surfaces, and product toolkits that bring our brand voice to life where our users interact with us most: inside Canva.
This is a team that moves fast, cares deeply about craft, and believes that the best creative work happens when writers and designers are in the room together from day one.
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!
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.