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Senior Legal Counsel - Product & PrivacyCanva · Sydney, au
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Senior Legal Counsel - Product & Privacy

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🗓️ Posted 2026-10-06 Sydney, au Full-time Hybrid Legal
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$15,000–A$22,500/mo

About the Company

Canva is redefining how the world experiences design, offering a flagship campus in Sydney and a hybrid working model.

About the Role

Canva is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel for its Product and Privacy team to support product and engineering teams in continually and rapidly evolving Canva AI and its integration into an ecosystem of tools while ensuring compliance with applicable privacy, IP, AI, online safety, marketing, accessibility, platform and consumer laws. This role offers a unique opportunity to join the exciting Product and Privacy function for Canva in Australia and work at the intersection of AI, product counselling, and legal strategy and governance, requiring a solid foundation in global laws and enthusiasm for emerging and generative AI technologies.

Responsibilities

  • ● Identify and advise on legal issues in key areas including privacy, data protection, intellectual property, marketing, online safety, AI regulation, platform, competition, and consumer laws.
  • ● Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, advising on product development (including agentic and generative AI products), go-to-market strategy, partnership terms, consumer-facing terms, and risk mitigation.
  • ● Contribute to the development and operationalization of company-wide AI policies, processes, and legal frameworks.
  • ● Draft and maintain legal playbooks and internal guidance related to AI tools and technologies.
  • ● Collaborate closely with privacy, IP, security, product, and engineering teams.
  • ● Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review to enable the launch of new products.
  • ● Participate in the review and coordination of potential privacy or data security incidents (including on call), including investigations, notifications, and other resolution efforts.
  • ● Stay up-to-date with global AI and privacy regulations and relevant industry standards.

Requirements

  • ● Legally qualified (AUS/NZ, UK, EU or US practising certificate).
  • ● 10+ years practicing law with some experience in-house, preferably in a technology company.
  • ● Familiarity with key global digital, AI, privacy, consumer and online safety laws and regulations (e.g. EU AI Act, GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, Digital Services Act, Online Safety Act(s)).
  • ● Deep understanding of modern AI technology and products.
  • ● Real opinions on generative and agentic AI, privacy, IP, safety, and regulatory considerations that come with them.
  • ● Comfortable collaborating with team members in other time zones.
  • ● Collaborative, pragmatic, business-minded lawyer who wants to help the Canva group grow.
  • ● Brings clarity to complexity and simplifies compliance without compromising standards.
  • ● Loves collaborating with engineers, product managers, and marketers, and thrives in fast-moving environments.
  • ● Risk aware, not risk adverse.
  • ● Creative, curious, and motivated by meaningful impact.

Application Notes

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