Creative Director, AI Photography & Video

Canva
Sydney, Melbourne
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Creative Production (Video/Audio/Photo)Skills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Systems thinking","Cross-functional collaboration","Creative quality bar"]

Own the creative and strategic direction for photography and video within Content Studio, shaping a diverse, on-trend content library used across Canva’s platform. Lead, coach, and grow a team of senior art directors, photographers, and videographers while raising the craft bar. Champion AI-first production at scale and partner with engineering, product, and production leadership to build tooling and workflows that unlock content creation for millions of users.

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Creative Director, AI Photography & Video

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Job Summary

Own the creative and strategic direction for photography and video within Content Studio, shaping a diverse, on-trend content library used across Canva’s platform. Lead, coach, and grow a team of senior art directors, photographers, and videographers while raising the craft bar. Champion AI-first production at scale and partner with engineering, product, and production leadership to build tooling and workflows that unlock content creation for millions of users.
Location: Sydney, Melbourne
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Creative Production (Video/Audio/Photo)
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the creative and strategic direction for photography and video in Content Studio, setting the vision for a library used by over 220 million users.
  • •Lead, coach, and grow a team of senior art directors, photographers, and videographers, raising the craft bar and building capability for traditional and AI-enabled production.
  • •Champion AI-first approaches to content production at scale, identifying where AI can generate, enrich, tag, and scale content.
  • •Partner with engineering, product, and production leadership to shape tooling and workflows for content creation at platform scale.
  • •Set and uphold the creative quality bar by commissioning shoots, reviewing assets, and ensuring they meet Canva’s standard; contribute to AI Template Marketplace goals.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Have led and grown creative teams or specialties, including leading leaders and senior specialists.
  • •Understand operating at platform scale, shaping systems and standards that hold up across millions of assets.
  • •Think in systems for AI production, understanding how AI changes an end-to-end production pipeline and directing others to apply it well.
  • •Bring experienced creative leadership in photography and/or video, with a strong quality and craft perspective and portfolio examples.
  • •Work effectively cross-functionally with creatives, engineers, product managers, and operations leadership.
Skills:LeadershipCoachingSystems thinkingCross-functional collaborationCreative quality bar
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIArtificial intelligencePhotographyVideo

Company Brief

Canva
Canva is an online visual communications platform that provides drag-and-drop design tools, templates, and media assets for creating presentations, social media graphics, videos, documents and more, serving individuals and large enterprises globally.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Founded: 2012
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