Brand Copywriter SEA (6-month Contract)

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but we engage our Contractors and Freelancers all over the world to help us meet our crazy big goals. As a Contractor or Freelancer at Canva you can work remotely in the country listed on this job ad, meaning you have ultimate flexibility. Wherever works for you, works for us. Please note, this is a 6-month contract role.

What you’d be doing in this role

As a Copywriter, you’ll craft clear, compelling, and locally relevant content for performance marketing campaigns, Meta ad creatives, high-impact partnerships and campaigns, and evergreen initiatives. Your role will require fluency in both English and Bahasa Indonesia to ensure a seamless flow of messaging between markets. Collaborating closely with designers and marketers, you’ll help shape Canva’s voice in SEA and bring creative ideas to life.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Writing engaging copy for marketing materials across campaigns in performance marketing, strategic partnerships, brand, events, social media, community, and other channels.
• Localizing Canva’s global messaging to make it relatable for Indonesian and Filipino audiences.
• Developing creative concepts for Truly Local campaigns and evergreen content.
• Collaborating with designers to align visuals and copy seamlessly.
• Supporting content creation for events, tutorials, and product launches that resonate with local markets.
• Tracking deliverables and ensure consistency in Canva’s tone and voice across platforms.

You're probably a match if

• You see the magic in words and how they can spark action, drive engagement, and create loyalty.
• You have a deep understanding of local cultures and love blending them into globally relevant messaging.
• You are endlessly curious and eager to experiment, refine, and perfect your copy to create real impact.
• You believe in collaboration and are excited to work alongside designers, marketers, and strategists to bring ideas to life.
• You can turn big ideas into simple, compelling messages that make people stop, think, and click.
• You excel at blending creativity with execution. From innovative concepts to polished final content, you consistently produce ideas that align with both creative vision and strategic objectives.
• Your portfolio highlights your expertise and enthusiasm. It demonstrates your talent for crafting copy that embodies brand identity, contemporary aesthetics, and imaginative thinking.
• You are highly skilled with industry-standard tools and processes. Whether using Google Docs, WordPress, Mailchimp, and Canva, you approach each project with confidence, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
• You possess strong organizational skills and attention to detail. In a dynamic environment, you manage your time adeptly, consistently providing top-quality work even under tight deadlines.
• You have experience working on brand and performance campaigns for direct-to-consumer tech brands at scale, delivering high volume and global production efforts

At Canva, we’re not just hiring a copywriter—we’re inviting you to co-write Canva’s story in SEA, one campaign at a time. Canva’s SEA team is on a mission to blend the magic of creativity with the science of local insights, and we need someone to craft stories and copy that inspire millions in Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond. We’re looking for someone who has experience delivering world-class creative, able to amplify Canva’s voice, and make it resonate deeply with people across Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond. If you’re ready to craft content that empowers people to see Canva as a tool to achieve greatness, we’d love to have you on board.

About the team

Marketing’s mission at Canva is for Canva to become “the most loved brand in the world”. Canva’s International Marketing Group is a diverse and distributed group of marketers who take this mission forward to drive user growth, brand awareness, and affinity in our priority international markets.

As part of the International Marketing Group, our SEA Marketing team drives Canva's growth by blending global strategies with hyperlocal insights. We aim to create meaningful connections with users in the Philippines and Indonesia through regional campaigns, localized moments, and evergreen creative initiatives across a variety of functions - performance marketing, brand, events, partnerships, social, community engagement and other growth channels.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience, skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

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