Senior Technical Program Manager

5 days ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Canva Full time
Senior Technical Program Manager - Content Group, 12- month fixed term contract

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Company Description

Company Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, hello, hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte

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 flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

Job Description

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.

The Content Group TPM is a trusted strategic partner for Content Leadership and is key to driving team effectiveness in goal and milestone delivery.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

  • Ensuring Goals and Milestones are clearly defined and aligned across the Group. This role is a key partner in designing, delivering, trouble shooting, measuring and updating the plan
  • Fostering and driving accountability to ensure successful program outcomes and build a delivery culture
  • Identifying and addressing coordination frictions to build a culture of continual improvement, delivery and effectiveness.
  • Overseeing program management for goal planning/tracking. This role ensures that the team remains focused, aligned, and on course, while also being capable of swiftly addressing any technical challenges or inefficiencies that may emerge.
  • Enabling the group's delivery to help pivot in direction or advise on changes to the strategic plan to ensure goals and milestones or issues are effectively managed within related programs of work
  • Ensuring transparency on delivery through a consistent status reporting and continuously improving processes
  • Proactively and effectively communicates across groups and teams. You will connect the detail and programs of work, embrace challenges and gathers deep insights attained through advocating craft excellence and team context to see the bigger picture and create the future of work
  • Ensuring our goals and milestones are achieved by building a scalable system that endures
  • Support the Planning, Reporting and Tooling of Delivery

You're probably a match if
  • You bring a minimum of 5 years of TPM experience in a SaaS environment, this role is very hands on.
  • You have deep understanding of Agile product development methodologies
  • You are knowledgeable in technical concepts, systems and practices
  • You have experience working with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver key company initiatives
  • You are proactive, hands on, comfortable with ambiguity, with a high attention to detail and thrives in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
  • You are a natural communicator and relationship builder who leads through influence, not authority
  • You have a love for navigating complexity and tackling ambiguous problems
  • You are able to balance a process-oriented mindset with flexibility to adapt to changing needs
  • You have introspective focus to continually improve the effectiveness of Canva's teams
  • You are dedicated to personal growth and improving in your craft as a TPM
  • You have the ability to think strategically but also able to make crazy big goals happen.

About The Technical Program Managers

At Canva, we're all constantly striving towards our Crazy Big Goals Since growing to a worldwide team of 5,000 we need to work effectively together and improve our delivery ability as we scale, which is where our Technical Program Managers come in.

As a Technical Program Manager, it is your mission to work closely with senior leaderships and product development teams to build a sustainable culture of positive urgency in delivery. You will lead complex, multi-disciplinary programs and be equally comfortable working with leadership to set strategic goals and clarify priorities, as you are with teams to communicate program status, escalate issues and manage dependencies as you are navigating technical trade-offs with an engineer.

About The Content Group

Canva's mission is to empower the world to design. Here in the Content Group, we do that by building delightful products that make designing accessible, easy, powerful and fun. We help users create by putting an immense library of templates, elements and AI at their fingertips.

Whether it's developing content in-house, working with our fabulous Creator community, or engaging with our cherished Partners, we are constantly creating the best new content in Canva which is inspiring, diverse, and truly local - on a global scale.

Other Stuff To Know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

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

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.Seniority level
  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Employment typeContract
Job function
  • IndustriesSoftware Development

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