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