Staff Technical Program Manager - Developer Experience
Canva · Sydney, NSW, au ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Category
- Project management
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Company size
- 1000+
Canva · Sydney, NSW, au ·
The Staff Technical Program Manager will lead complex, cross-functional programs within Canva's Developer Experience group to improve engineering productivity and tooling. The role involves managing technical dependencies, driving strategic planning, and facilitating the adoption of developer tools and AI-driven engineering workflows.
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.
This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
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.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
You're probably a match if
Have at least one of these:
About the Infrastructure Supergroup
At Canva, the Infrastructure Group's focus is to make infrastructure easy for all the other engineering teams at Canva. We accomplish this by optimising existing solutions, developing internal tooling, promoting best practices throughout the organisation, introducing global infrastructure changes, and mentoring the engineering teams on how to do infrastructure - the right way. We work as a team to find pragmatic solutions to a wide range of performance and scaling problems to ensure Canva continues to grow and our users have smooth and seamless design experiences. This focus on long term growth is made possible by every engineering team at Canva owning the operations and infrastructure of the systems they design and implement.
About the Developer Experience Group
The DevX Group is part of Canva's Platform org, sitting within the Infrastructure supergroup. Our mission is to empower every engineer at Canva to build and ship software with speed, confidence, and quality. We own the platforms, tools, and processes that form the backbone of the engineering development lifecycle — from writing and building code to testing and releasing it. We provide the foundational infrastructure for build systems and code collaboration, enabling efficient and secure software development. We focus on creating a frictionless development journey by streamlining workflows, building and enhancing tooling, and defining standards across engineering.
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Here's a taste of what's on offer:
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
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.