International Growth Strategy Lead (Education)

Responsibilities

• ● Job Description
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• ● Thanks for stopping by. 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
• ● Our headquarters is in sunny Sydney, Australia, and while our team spans the globe, this role is based in Sydney or Melbourne - working alongside our International and Sales teams so we can keep collaboration flowing and strategy close to the people executing it. We support flexible, remote-friendly ways of working within that.
• ● 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. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
• ● At the moment, this role is focused on:
• ● This is an Education Growth strategy and systems role: you'll set the operating model that lifts education growth across every market we're in.
• ● Owning Education as a growth vertical internationally - setting the strategy for which markets we scale, in what order, and how.
• ● Bringing our country education leads together under one overarching international education strategy - the connective tissue that doesn't exist today.
• ● Shifting the focus from "train" to "activate & retain" - embedding Canva as core, everyday workflow for teachers and students across markets, not one-off usage.
• ● Prioritising and sequencing market opportunities across regions (APAC, LATAM, EMEA and beyond) based on readiness, opportunity and impact.
• ● Owning the integration between education marketing and education content and designing the handoff into Education Sales.
• ● Aligning Sales, Marketing, Product, Content and Partnerships around clear, measurable education growth outcomes across markets.
• ● Turning local market learnings into a scalable global playbook - feeding what works in one market into the next, without losing the formula that works.
• ● Partnering with, and coaching, Country Education Leads and Country Managers to contextualise the central strategy for each market.
• ● You're probably a match if
• ● You've owned growth for a whole function, vertical (ideally Education) or market at scale - built the system, not just executed someone else's plan inside it.
• ● You've built or scaled a vertical, segment or market at an international or multi-market level and can clearly articulate the growth levers behind it.