Creative Director, Campaigns (6-month contract)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you’re probably keen to find out what’s on offer, so we’ll get straight to the point.

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 London so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing. This role is a 6-month engagement, working full-time hours.

About the Role: Canva is a world-leading design platform that empowers millions of people to design anything and publish anywhere. Our mission is to empower the world to design—and we’re looking for an incredible Campaigns Creative Director to help make our European marketing campaigns famous globally. Reporting to the Creative Director for Europe, this role combines strategic creative direction in our 4 European markets (UK, Italy, France and Spain), with world class craft. As a Creative Director for Campaigns, you’ll be part of the team driving our advertising efforts across Europe. You’ll help shape campaigns that are brave, insight-led, rooted in local storytelling and crafted for impact across TV, digital, social, performance, and emerging platforms. You’ll work closely with in-house teams and agency partners to deliver creative that builds brand love, drives growth, and reflects our distinctive voice in-market. We’re looking for an incredible creative with deep advertising and storytelling expertise, and a passion for delivering fame driven work. This role blends strategic vision with hands-on craft, and a collaborative spirit. This is an opportunity to help shape a brand with big ambitions.

What you’ll do:

• Lead Canva’s advertising and integrated campaign development across Europe.
• Create bold, culturally relevant work across TV, digital, social, OOH, and performance channels.
• Build an always-on creative capability for rapid testing, iteration, and optimisation.
• Elevate storytelling and design to differentiate Canva while ensuring global alignment.
• Use insights, trends, and data to drive creative effectiveness and innovation.
• Partner with in-house teams and agencies to deliver high-quality, locally resonant campaigns.
• Contribute towards a high-performing, inclusive creative culture where experimentation is encouraged.
• Collaborate closely with marketing, growth, and product teams to deliver world-class work across markets.

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable Lead Creative experience across both agency and in-house environments.
• Proven ability to lead major advertising campaigns across Europe.
• Strong understanding of consumer tech and/or direct-to-consumer brands.
• Deep expertise in brand campaign creative across digital, social, and traditional channels.
• A standout portfolio showcasing excellence in storytelling and advertising craft.
• Strategic thinker who can connect creative ideas to clear business outcomes.
• Confident communicator and presenter, able to influence senior stakeholders.
• Thrives in fast-paced, global environments; culturally aware and passionate about creating resonant work across markets.

About the Team: Marketing’s mission at Canva is for Canva to become “the most loved brand in the world”. Canva’s International Marketing Group is a diverse and distributed group of marketers who take this mission forward to drive user growth, brand awareness, and affinity in our priority international markets. As part of the International Marketing Group, our Growth Marketing team drives Canva’s growth by blending global strategies with hyperlocal insights. We aim to create meaningful connections with users in Europe regional campaigns, localized moments, and evergreen creative initiatives across a variety of functions - performance marketing, brand, events, partnerships, social, community engagement and other growth channels.

Our Values & Culture: At Canva, we believe success and impact go hand in hand. Our two-step plan is simple: first, build one of the most valuable companies in the world, and then use that success to do the most good we can. From free access for nonprofits and schools to volunteering and global partnerships, we’re driven by empowerment at every level. We’re building a culture that’s inclusive, collaborative, and deeply ambitious, a place where creative people are encouraged to take risks, push boundaries, and grow together. If you’re excited by the idea of shaping a brand with real purpose, surrounded by curious, creative people who are genuinely in it together, you’ll feel right at home here.

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!