Growth Marketing Lead, North America (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$180K/yr – $240K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Canva Business growth in North America by owning paid campaigns across search, social, and display to acquire high-value SMB trials.

  • Must-have: Hands-on performance and growth marketing across paid channels with measurable impact.
  • Standout: Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Creative, and Data teams to align campaigns with SMB needs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owning and optimising paid marketing programs across search, social, and display to drive quality user acquisition across the North American market
  • Designing and running growth experiments across the funnel, from awareness through to conversion, using data to figure out what works and then scaling it fast
  • Partnering with Product, Creative, and Data teams to build campaigns that drive high-value SMB trials and Canva Business growth
  • Analysing channel performance and translating insights into clear actions that improve efficiency and ROI
  • Contributing to the North America growth marketing roadmap and bringing a clear point of view on where the biggest opportunities sit
  • Owning end-to-end execution of paid marketing programs across search, social, and display — from briefing creative through to optimisation — with a focus on acquiring high-value SMB users and driving quality Canva Business trials in the North American market
  • Building and running a structured experimentation program across the funnel: writing hypotheses, designing tests, reading results, and knowing when to scale something and when to kill it
  • Digging into performance data across channels to identify what's working, where efficiency is slipping, and what changes will move the needle — then making those changes rather than waiting to be asked
  • Working closely with the Performance Marketing, Creative, and Data teams to develop campaigns that are both strategically sharp and operationally tight — from audience targeting through to landing page experience
  • Partnering with the Canva Business product team to stay close to the North American user and ensure your campaigns reflect what actually resonates with SMBs in that market

Requirements

  • You have solid hands-on experience running performance and growth marketing programs across paid channels, with a track record of improving efficiency and driving measurable results, preferably in a SaaS environment
  • You're genuinely data-driven — comfortable in a spreadsheet, at home in a dashboard, and confident turning numbers into decisions
  • You know how to juggle multiple campaigns and priorities at once without losing sight of what actually matters
  • You collaborate well with global teams and can work effectively across time zones without missing a beat
  • You bring a test-and-learn mindset and aren't precious about your ideas — you just want to find what works
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    We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world.Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.

    Founded in 2012
    Surry Hills, New South Wales, AUS
    11K employees (4,005 in marketing)
    83% recommend to a friend
    92% CEO approval

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    821.5M
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $606.4K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    26.1%
    Direct
    70.7%
    Referral
    2.4%
    Social
    0.5%
    Paid
    0.2%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~10.6K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    1,322 (13% of company)
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    3

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $2.5B
    Last Raise
    $328.5M
    Secondary Market, 3 months ago

    Funding History

    • Aug 2025
      Secondary Market
    • Oct 2024
      Secondary Market
    • May 2024
      Secondary Market • $328.5M

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