AI Photography & Videography Creative Director

Responsibilities

• ● Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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• ● Where And How You Can Work
• ● Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with a campus in Melbourne, this role is based in Sydney or Melbourne. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals, while collaborating closely with global teams across time zones.
• ● What You'd Be Doing In This Role
• ● As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. This role will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start - but it will likely evolve.
• ● Photography and video are the lifeblood of what Canva's users create and AI is changing what's possible at every step of that process. As AI Photography & Video Lead, you'll own the creative and strategic direction for how we produce, enrich, and scale world-class photo and video content for over 220 million users.
• ● At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On
• ● Defining and leading the creative strategy for Canva's photography and video content - ensuring we're building a library that's diverse, on-trend, and genuinely useful for our users
• ● Driving AI-first approaches to content production: using AI to generate, enrich, tag, and scale photo and video assets that would take years to produce by hand
• ● Partnering with Content Studio's production teams, engineers, and product managers to build tooling and workflows that unlock content creation at scale
• ● Setting quality standards and creative direction across photography and video - commissioning shoots, reviewing assets, and ensuring every piece meets the Canva bar
• ● Contributing to Canva's AI Template Marketplace goals, where photo and video content is a critical ingredient in making templates come alive
• ● Coaching and leading a team of photographers, videographers, and content producers to do the best work of their careers
• ● You're Probably a Match If
• ● You're an experienced creative leader in photography and/or video, with a strong point of view on quality and craft
• ● You're genuinely excited about how AI is changing content creation - and you already have experience working with AI tools in your workflow
• ● You've led creative teams or specialties before, and you know how to set direction and help people grow
• ● You understand what it means to operate at platform scale - millions of assets, used across thousands of contexts