Chief of Staff, Content & Discovery

<p><strong>Where and how you can work</strong></p><p>This role is based in our<strong> flagship campus in Sydney</strong>. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you!</p><p><strong>About the role</strong></p><p>As the<strong> Chief of Staff </strong>(known internally as Leadership Operations), you’ll act as a force multiplier to the lead of one of Canva’s largest (over 500+) and most impactful orgs - Content &amp; Discovery (C&amp;D).</p><p>The 500+ C&amp;D team plays a key role in Canva’s mission by building the world’s most useful, relevant, diverse, and inspiring content library, and helping users discover the best content for their job to be done.</p><p>In this role, you’ll extend the reach, capacity and impact of the C&amp;D Lead, driving clarity, prioritisation, and alignment across strategic business priorities that span product, communications, operations, and leadership engagement.</p><p>You’ll play a critical role in enabling the success of the C&amp;D Lead, their leadership team, and the broader C&amp;D organisation by providing strategic direction, building the right spaces for effective collaboration, and proactively solving business challenges that unlock scale and impact.</p><p>You’ll also lead C&amp;D’s operations team, made up of Operations Business Partners and Admin Business Partners (Executive Assistant). While the Admin BPs focus on unlocking capacity for leaders through world-class support, the Ops BPs partner with teams to deliver on core operational cadences, strategic planning, and goal execution. Together, you’ll help C&amp;D deliver on its crazy big goals.</p><p>If you thrive in ambiguity, love juggling multiple competing priorities, and enjoy connecting the dots across people and priorities, this role is for you.</p><p><strong>What you’d be doing in this role</strong></p><p>As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. We move fast here at Canva, and this role will certainly keep you on your toes.</p><p>At the moment, this role is focused on:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Strategic partner to C&amp;D Lead</strong>: Act as a trusted thought partner across product strategy and long term direction. Help define and sharpen major bets across content supply, discovery, ranking, and user experience. Bring structured thinking to trade-offs, sequencing, and investment decisions.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong>Represent the Lead:</strong> Step into product and cross-functional forums on behalf of the C&amp;D Lead. Ensure discussions are grounded in user impact, clear hypotheses, and defined success metrics.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong>Proactively drive projects forward:</strong> Driving key projects and initiatives that are critical to C&amp;D. This will include cross-cutting project management with stakeholders that sit in many different parts of Canva.&#xa0;</p></li></ul><ul><li><p><strong>Drive planning and operational rhythm:</strong> Support key business cadences like QBRs and goal planning. Help build context and alignment across a complex org of 45+ team leads, including document creation and facilitation.</p></li><li><p><strong>Planning and operations: </strong>Coach the Operations team to strengthen roadmap visibility, dependency management, and performance tracking. Ensure the org has a clear view of what is driving user value and where course correction is required.</p></li><li><p><strong>Triage and prioritisation:</strong> Act as the first point of contact for inbound requests, founder asks, new initiatives, and escalations. Evaluate opportunities through a product and impact lens, and ensure focus remains on the highest leverage work.</p></li><li><p><strong>Strong people connector:</strong> Build strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders across the business to ensure visibility, and alignment between C&amp;D ... (truncated, view full listing at source)