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Program Manager: Education Content (FTC)Canva · Sydney, au
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Program Manager: Education Content (FTC)

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🗓️ Posted 2026-09-11 Sydney, au Full-time Hybrid Education Training
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$10,000–A$15,000/mo

About the Company

We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer. Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It's a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.

About the Job

As Program Manager, Education Content, you will play a pivotal role in delivering on Canva's mission to democratize design and empower learning for everyone. You'll help shape, coordinate, and operationalise the strategy that brings Education Content and the Learn Grid to life, reaching millions of teachers and students globally.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Support the Education Content Leads across budget management, contingent workforce planning, goal setting, planning cycles, and performance reporting.
  • ● Own the internal comms and rhythms that keep distributed teams connected - updates, cross-regional forums, consistent ways of working.
  • ● Partner with the whole EDU Content team to coordinate content initiatives across all multiple ingestion funnels like partnerships, AI generated content, EDU Creator content and vendor content.
  • ● Connect planning and production, translating direction into clear milestones, dependencies, and plans for each content funnel.
  • ● Translate strategy into clear milestones, dependencies, and plans for each content funnel.
  • ● Identify where processes are slowing delivery down, and partner with teams to fix them.
  • ● Manage regular reporting on content production health and campaign performance, building and maintaining the tracking systems that keep the whole team updated in real time.
  • ● Coordinate contingent workforce hiring and operations - workforce planning, onboarding, contracts, renewals, and budget tracking.
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  • ● Act as the connective layer between Education Content, Learning Experience Product, Content & Discovery, and International keeping shared initiatives on track without duplicated effort.
  • ● Drive the adoption of AI and automation to improve team efficiency, from content production through to how the teams work day to day.

Requirements

Experience

  • ● 5+ years in program or project management, content operations, content production, chief of staff or similar cross-functional coordination roles, ideally in high-growth tech, media, or creative environments.
  • ● Have experience supporting senior leaders across planning, budgeting, and hiring.
  • ● A track record of building shared processes across distributed or global teams.

Skills

  • ● Expertise in leveraging AI and technology to build automations, scale systems and improve workflows.
  • ● Sharp communication skills - you can cut through noise and stay clear across every level, from leadership to production.
  • ● Strong prioritisation instincts, and the judgement to connect strategy to execution.
  • ● A strong bias to action.