Senior Engineering Manager (be/ml) - Context & Personalisation

Canva

Melbourne, Australia
On-site
Lead backend and ml engineers
Define strategy and roadmap
Build scalable apis and primitives
As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Canva AI Supergroup, you’ll lead the Context & Personalisation team — the group responsible for making Canva AI feel uniquely tailored to every user

Job Summary

  • As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Canva AI Supergroup, you’ll lead the Context & Personalisation team — the group responsible for making Canva AI feel uniquely tailored to every user.
  • You’ll guide the evolution of Canva’s centralised context platform, enabling teams across Canva to build powerful, personalised AI experiences for millions of users worldwide.
  • This role sits within Canva AI (Generative AI Supergroup) — a group on a mission to ensure that by 2027, Canva is known not just as a design tool, but as an AI creative partner for every individual, team, classroom, and enterprise.

Matching Summary

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Canva AI Supergroup, you’ll lead the Context & Personalisation team — the group responsible for making Canva AI feel uniquely tailored to every user.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Lead backend and ML engineers
  • Define strategy and roadmap
  • Build scalable APIs and primitives
  • Partner with Product and Design
  • Drive adoption of AI capabilities
  • Develop high-performing engineering teams

Nice-to-have

  • Experience building context systems
  • Experience with recommendation engines
  • Experience balancing platform investment
  • Passionate about developing engineers
  • Curious about evolving AI landscape

Key Requirements

  • Experienced engineering leader
  • Built or scaled platform systems
  • Experience working in AI/ML
  • Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity environments
  • Passionate about developing engineers

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