Brand Designer - 6-month Contract - Sydney

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but we engage our Contractors and Freelancers all over the world to help us meet our crazy big goals. As a Contract or Freelancer at Canva you can work remotely from the location listed in the ad above, meaning you have ultimate flexibility. Wherever works for you, works for us.

What you’d be doing in this role

We are looking for a mid-weight Brand Designer on a 6-month contract who can conceptualise and deliver an exceptional and consistent brand experience across many media touchpoints. An understanding that various design applications and media such as social, digital and motion is key to this, to ensure that your vision is fully realised.

You will be part of the Evergreen Production squad and work in conjunction with Educators, Copywriters and Content Creators to bring ideas to life through multiple channels. You will work closely with cross functional teams at Canva (Marketing, Channel, Product, Partnerships) to understand our products and ensure our brand is consistent across all consumer touch points. 

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Design assets for motion by developing creative solutions that bring to life Canva’s brand and product. This could include detailed storyboards that conceptualise UI flows, art direction for filmed content or setting up assets for motion designers.
• Help review our video content and give constructive feedback to our team of videographers and motion designers
• Collaborate with a multi-talented team of designers, videographers, producers and educators to bring our content to life
• Help establish and build robust systems and approach for high-production video content and continually raise the bar of excellence
• Design creative assets to support the wider Social, Content and Community team including video content and a wide range of other communication outputs.
• Familiarise yourself with the performance of your work and learn for future executions. 
• Help guide more junior members of the team through established feedback processes and informal mentorship.

You're probably a match if

• You have experience with designing for motion – creating a diverse range of assets for video and motion design, content creation, and video editing.
• You’re a master designer, able to visualise the brand and its products to myriad demographics and personas clearly. Creating a sense of connection in their work between Canva and the audience.
• You have experience in brand design, as well as design for motion.
• You enjoy working in a collaborative environment, where feedback is seen as a gift.
• You are the perfect balance between ideation at a conceptual level and execution, in bringing your ideas to life.
• You have demonstrated experience in a brand design role.
• You have an online portfolio that demonstrates: Strong brand design principles and craft, A modern style & aesthetic, Creative thinking & Attention to detail.
• You have advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, the Adobe Creative Suite and Canva.
• You have good organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.

About the team

At Canva we’re making design simple and accessible to everyone, empowering people all over the world with a design tool – and the design skills – to help them reach their goals.

Our broad Social, Content and Community team aims to, inform, educate, and nurture users' design skills and Canva journey in many ways.

Our social team is focused on engaging with varied audiences across all Canva social channels. Our content teams include Design Education, which offers free design courses, with a vision to become the best place in the world to learn design, and to offer the best online learning experience possible, as well as Customer Content, which is focused on showcasing the very best of Canva for Teams to prospective users. And our community teams are focused on highlighting, celebrating and developing the design achievements of Canva’s global design communities.

Other stuff to know

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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!

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