工作内推 ·Software Engineering Manager - Marketing Platform

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 mean it when we say we want to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where we value all different types of experiences and want to create a space and culture where you feel like you belong. We know it can be a tricky time applying for roles, wondering if the role is right for you and if you and your experience are right for the role too. Many people won’t apply for roles unless they feel that they tick every single box. At Canva we look for many different skills and abilities and we’re always looking for how new team members can add to Canva and our culture. So if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed, 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 80 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 2,800 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.  Be a Force for Good We’re driven by our values, with our ‘Be a Force for Good’ value supporting everything that we do. Through your work on our product or team, and our community initiatives and sustainability programs, you’re given the opportunity to come to Canva and make a tangible difference to the lives of others in your day-to-day life. In addition to our Founder’s 30% Pledge, Canva is committed to Pledge 1% and actively encourage our team to participate in many ways, including taking paid volunteer leave. Your journey with Canva could take you to places that you might not even imagined yet. There’s opportunity around every corner and the support to help you achieve your goals. Join us and design your future. About the group/team The Marketing Platform Group is responsible for building systems and services that deliver unique and personalized experiences for billions of humans. Marketing Platform teams use advanced segmentation, ML, automation, and high-volume transactional systems to enable intelligent communication at scale. The group priorities include simplified internal tooling, rapid learning and measurement, engagement optimization, and future-proofing for Canva's Crazy Big Goals. The Marketing Platform group today has 5 teams that span a range of disciplines including Backend, Frontend, ML, Data, Marketing Operations, and Product Management. Due to the group's critical role in Canva reaching its growth and acquisition goals, we expect to continue to grow the size of this group in the next 12 months from 25 engineers across 5 teams to 50 engineers across 8 teams. In order to ensure the team, platform, and business continues to scale and reliably serve our millions of users, we’re welcoming an experienced software engineering leader - focused on technical strategy and direction, people leadership and management, and cross-collaboration to lead engineering for the Marketing Platform Group. About the role The Marketing and Engagement Engineering group is planned to grow incredibly quickly in 2022 as we fire up new teams and growth areas. This role is to lead and build out our Audience Team, whilst ensuring they deliver key features and functionality to our platforms and growth engines. It will be expected that the technical strategies you develop and execute will lead to exciting new features in the Audience space as well as the wider group. As the team grows, this individual will be responsible for absorbing and/or creating new teams into their organization as the broader engineering organization grows. This is an excellent opportunity for somebody who wants to grow as a technology leader whilst providing critical input on the particulars of solutions and technical strategy.

Role Responsibilities

Drive the technical strategy across the within the Audience domain in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.

Collaborate with talented engineers, in both systems and data, to scope and solve complex problems that are highly impactful across the business.

Create high-performing and highly engaged teams of world-class engineers who are building for billions of users.

Nurture the progression of current members within the team, creating a team for the present and future needs of Canva.

Foster a culture of communication, bridging the communication gap between teams, groups, and company leadership.

Ensure the Marketing Platform group is constantly working towards delivering on the group strategy and vision by continuously assessing current and future business needs.

Drive planning and refinement of seasonal goals, ensuring there is alignment between the company, group, and teams.

Drive delivery of large, cross-team, and cross-group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion.

Set the direction by owning the technical strategy and roadmap, and deploying resources effectively.

Required Skills & Experience

Previous experience as a Software Engineer - and still in tune with software engineering fundamentals and first principles.

Experience with technical and people leadership, having previously created high performing and psychologically safe teams, where everyone is able to share their best ideas and be their best selves.

Invested in working with engineers on growth and development opportunities to help further their skills and grow into new roles, with an ability to deliver relevant and timely feedback (positive & constructive) to help them continuously improve and learn.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds, with different expertise, and with different professional and personal needs.

Experience making careful engineering tradeoffs, particularly around "Build vs Buy", evaluating potential third-party systems to partner with, and managing and working with vendors to meet Canva's business needs.

Strong customer focus to understand the use cases and requirements of internal stakeholders, and identify opportunities to empower them to do their best work.

Be capable of leading by example - promoting Canva’s values, no-blame mentality, and engineering values.