Creative Lead / Design Director - Spain
Canva, Spain

The road to creating stunningly beautiful content begins with a single template, but the journey is made faster with the help of perfect and easily customizable designs that empower users to create the content they need.

Canva’s templates team aims to build the world’s best design marketplace with a library of designs that offer our users a wide variety of usable and dynamic content, and to do that, we need the help of talented designers that can create and curate amazing content, but also help pave the way for the future of our template library.

About the Project

Canva is on a mission to democratise design through the localisation of our products -- and one of the ways we’re doing that is by making sure we have a library full of high-quality, market-bespoke contents for all of our key markets. It’s not enough just to have content that is translated from English, we want to be sure that all users have access to content that reflects the design aesthetics and trends in their market.

Working closely with copywriters, illustrators, market growth specialists and localisation specialists, you’ll be overseeing the end-to-end production rollout of the content library for this specific market.

Our template library needs a range of fresh, varied, and beautiful designs - so we’re after self-motivated designers who would love to have room for creative freedom in answering briefs.

We’re interested in engaging a Creative Lead based in Spain on a 3-6 month project where you’ll be creating a multitude of Canva assets including logos, posters, videos, presentations, Instagram stories, social media content (video and static), book covers, banners (video and static) and editorial content.

Responsibilities

Direct design on key template projects across the locale-specific projects

Work closely with a vibrant and friendly creative studio, directing design, photography and illustration. This is an opportunity to deliver a wide variety of creative campaigns, with freedom to influence design direction, and the chance to create elegant, on-trend designs every day.

Build our internal team to meet partner needs whilst inspiring and developing our talented freelancers to create high-quality print designs.

Work with the Studio Manager and manage your team in order to execute jobs successfully on deadline and to brief

Brief a design team to create beautiful and usable animated and static templates

Brief and manage the asset creation process with our internal and external sources of imagery, music tracks, video footage, stickers, and animations – so that we have the best assets to work with

Provide design feedback to team members with sensitivity and honesty, helping them to grow and develop their skills

Own curation and quality assurance for templates

Work closely with the team developing Canva’s product – and ensure that our templates evolve with and inform our features

Research competitors, trends, patterns and best-practises, visual/interaction design inspiration, user and business insights

Ensure our designers create with usability requirements in mind

Produce and integrate effective & efficient design practices

Support the team’s scalability through documentation and process improvement.

Experience you'll need

Experience as a Graphic, Brand or Visual Designer creating a diverse range of digital and print marketing materials

A portfolio demonstrating your passion for designing clean, elegant, and beautiful designs.

Advanced design sense and mastery of hand illustration, typography, color, conceptual graphic design, and layout creation

Has a keen understanding of design based on visual, cultural, and popular trends

Has a strong stylistic approach, and a strong foundation in what makes a good design

Designs with the end user’s needs in mind

Delivers great designs, on deadline and to brief

When applying to this role, please provide the following:

A link to your portfolio

Your availability

Your hourly rate

Job Rewards and Benefits