Lead Product Designer

**Canva’s Commitment and Mission
- At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you- Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 86 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,000 peopleand the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.- Join us and design your future.**About the Product Design team
- One of the principles of our design team is to ‘show the future’. As designers we transport the rest of the company into a future we’re yet to build. A big part of the role of a product designer at Canva is to be a visionary—visualising and reinventing the future of design.- Product designers at Canva take the dream and make it something everyone can relate to and rally behind. We start from the very early stages: finding the right problem to tackle, exploring ideas for how to solve it and then refining it into a coherent solution. Our product designers carry out research, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, and collaboration with our engineers to ship great products. We are empathetic user advocates and respect our users’ opinions through interviews, usability testing, and data analysis, as well as wireframing, flowcharting, and journey mapping to show the different stages that customers go through as they come into contact with Canva.**About the Data Visualisation Group**
- At Canva we believe that presenting data visually is critical for working professionals, small business owners, students and educators alike. Canva Data Visualisation Group is on a mission to create powerful yet extremely easy-to-use tools that make it a snap to create beautiful and interactive charts, maps and infographics that tell meaningful and magical stories.- Rather than being restricted to specific use cases, Canva’s data graphics work seamlessly wherever they’re embedded, from videos to interactive presentations, to documents and more.- Data storytelling is a key company strategy in order to unlock growth and increase adoption. Pursuing our mission will not only support our existing user base, but will give new reasons for people to find and use Canva, further supporting our company-critical Monthly Active User targets.**What you'll do**:

- You’ll start from the very early stages: finding the right problem to tackle, exploring ideas for how to solve it and then refining it into a coherent solution. As a product designer on the team you will carry out: research, brainstorming, sketching, prototyping, and collaboration with our engineers to ship great products.
- You will advocate for users and respect our users’ opinions through interviews, usability testing, and data analysis.
- You’ll create user flows and wireframes that simplify user interactions
- You’ll create flowcharts, and journey maps to show the different stages that customers go through as they come into contact with Canva.
- You’ll visually communicate your ideas through prototypes to test with users.
- You’ll rapidly iterate through different design solutions; bucking convention in favour of progressive ideas.
- You’ll partner with other designers, engineers, product developers and other disciplines throughout the company.
- You’ll solve complex problems and whiteboard ideas to confidently come up with simple, elegant solutions that everyone can move forward with.

**What we are looking for**:

- A portfolio that demonstrates experience in product thinking where you have previously shipped UX/UI design for digital products across a variety of platforms and devices (i.e. desktop, mobile, tablet, native iOS and Android). **Would be a real plus if that includes projects related to charts, maps, infographics or information design**:

- You are a designer that is constantly inspired—motivating those around you through your passion and drive for what you do.
- You are excited by regularly coming up with new ideas, shipping new products and features that address your users’ real needs. You shine through your designs—creating user flows and wireframes that simplify user interactions You are eager to visually communicate your ideas through prototypes to test with users.
- You thrive in a collaborative workplace; partnering with other designers, engineers, product developers and other disciplines throughout the company.
- You appreciate big picture thinking. While details are everything, creating an experience that always keeps our users in mind is equally as important.
- You are a problem solver that’s excited by a challeng