Creative Director, Southeast Asia

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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.

Reporting into the Head of Marketing for Southeast Asia, we’re hiring a Creative Director to oversee our creative efforts in SEA, currently focused on Indonesia and the Philippines. As the Associate Creative Director, you’ll be the custodian of the Canva brand in SEA - balancing brand guardianship with insightful local expression. This is an incredible opportunity to lead the definition of our brand and creative in SEA.

We’re looking for someone who has experience delivering world-class creative across a variety of channels across multiple Southeast Asian markets, and has a vision for how we bring our brand pillars to life in a way that feels truly local to every market we are in. We’re looking for someone who can lead a team, and comfortable leaning into the nitty gritty of the work.

• You’ll be the custodian of Canva’s brand in SEA - through deep alignment with our Executive Creative Director and our central creative group, you’ll set the vision of how we show up in each market in a way that reflects the Canva brand and feels truly local.
• You’ll define and maintain the creative fabric that runs across each external touch point our brand has with our community in SEA! This could range from partnerships and events, community building, social, webinars, performance marketing, brand marketing and any other local initiatives!
• You’ll work at the crossroads of creativity, data and innovation. Partnering with our Growth Managers, Product Marketers and Researchers to build a robust creative testing process, you’ll leverage performance data to steer creative output and test new messaging and positioning hypotheses based on local insights; doubling down on those that are working. 
• Partnering closely with our central creative group, you’ll oversee creative production to support our SEA marketing activity, balancing how we utilise in-house, agency and freelance resources as efficiently and effectively as possible. As part of this, you’ll lead, mentor and motivate a talented in market team as it grows, including copywriters and art directors, inspiring them to constantly push the boundaries of creative effectiveness.
• And lastly, you will get to work with a broad range of experienced marketers and stakeholders from across Canva’s global team to create creative that achieve our Crazy Big Goals for SEA.

You're probably a match if

• You have at least 8 years’ experience of agency and in-house consumer marketing experience, as an emerging creative leader who has successfully delivered growth results across channels
• You have experience working on brand and performance campaigns for direct-to-consumer tech brands at scale, delivering high volume and global production efforts
• You have proven experience working across different Southeast Asian markets (with a focus on Indonesia), and utilising local insights to deliver locally relevant and highly impactful creative
• You have proficient understanding of creative across channels, social platform best practices, and user acquisition KPIs
• You have excellent design craft and copywriting skills, and a portfolio that shows experience with Creative, particularly performance work
• You have excellent verbal and visual communication skills, allowing you to communicate complex information simply and clearly
• You’ve led creative teams and know what it takes to inspire and grow them
• You thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment that requires the ability to problem solve, drive chaos to clarity, and maintain personal resilience
• You’re an energy giver with a positive outlook. A natural empathetic teammate, with a consistent track record of cross-functional leadership and partnership
• You are fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and have a deep understanding of the Indonesian market.

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 for driving market-specific growth goals and comprehensive market strategies across SEA across a variety of functions - performance marketing, brand, events, partnerships, social, community engagement and other growth channels.

Other stuff to know

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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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