Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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We're looking for a Content Strategist to join our team in UK, focused on making sure our campaigns and always on media drive material growth through creative excellence.
Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but we engage our Contractors all over the world to help us meet our crazy big goals. As a Contractor at Canva you can work remotely in from anywhere in the United Kingdom, meaning you have ultimate flexibility. Wherever works for you, works for us. Please note, this is a 12-month contract with full-time and flexible hours, but you’ll need to balance your schedule to accommodate occasional global team meetings in the evening (6-9 PM)
About the role
As the Content Strategist for UK, you’ll be the creative performance engine behind Canva’s paid marketing in the region. You’ll be responsible for audience insight, creative analysis, sprint leadership, and directing a high-performing creative strategy - working at the intersection of data, storytelling, and cultural nuance.
Your role is to work with channel experts to ensure that our creative system is always improving and driving growth. You understand the market and our customers, dive deep into the tools and lead our team’s execution through the creative strategy flywheel with the broader team.
This is a hands-on, insight-led role where local knowledge, analytical curiosity, and creative excellence drive outcomes.
What you’d be doing in this role
📊 Analyse and optimise creative performance
Analyse dashboards to spot winning creatives, diagnose underperformance, and feed back actionable insights to guide new concepts and iterations.
⚙️ Know our marketing channels
Understand key marketing channels and how media buying influences creative success. We value your ability to break down a winning TikTok format and adapt it for Canva over deep knowledge of specific bidding mechanics.
🧠 Lead the creative flywheel and sprints
Lead the full creative cycle. Research, briefing, production, editing, and analysis - driving sprint cycles with regional/global teams. Develop testable ideas grounded in user insights and market context, collaborating closely with producers, writers, and editors.
🖼️ Work with the broader marketing function
You’ll work closely with media buying experts, the Growth Marketing Lead for Europe, our data science team, the local and global creative teams and other key stakeholders involved in campaign execution and marketing operations.
🌏 Provide local market and audience insight
You’ll bring cultural fluency and market nuance perspective to every project. Identifying regional trends, visual cues, differences in product usage and behaviours that shape effective storytelling in your market.
🎬 Own UGC briefing and localisation
Brief and review creator content to ensure it’s on-brand, relevant, and platform optimised. Resulting in scaling high-performing UGC for local audiences.
🔄 Support conversion across the funnel
Support CRO initiatives to make acquisition journeys seamless, engaging, and high-converting.
What this role doesn’t include:
To keep the focus clear, this role does not include:
Direct media buying or channel management accountability
Ownership of lifecycle, partnerships, or brand campaigns
Running global creative production end-to-end (you’ll partner with our studio for that!)
You’re probably a match if
5+ years of experience working in growth marketing teams with a focus on creative strategy.
Experience working across performance-driven creative, with a deep understanding of ad metrics, audience segmentation, and platform best practices
Confidence using data tools and performance dashboards to inform decision-making and optimise creative at scale
Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to spot tone, nuance, and resonance in creative work. Additional languages are viewed favourably.
Strong experience in briefing, reviewing, and iterating creative in cross-functional sprints
A growth mindset. You’re analytical, curious, and unafraid to push for better
About the team
You’ll be part of a highly collaborative, fast-moving, and passionate marketing team that blends creativity and data to make magic happen. In this role, you’ll help Canva show up at its best in UK—fueling growth by bringing performance and creativity together in every campaign.
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!
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.