Machine Learning Engineering Manager - MLOps / AI Platform (m / f / x)

Machine Learning Engineering Manager – MLOps / AI Platform (m / f / x)

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Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Servus, hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Where and How You Can Work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but Austria is home to part of our European operations. You have choice in where and how you work; we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. This role requires relocation to Austria, which will be supported from our side.

What You’ll Be Doing in This Role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. This will give you a flavor of the type of things you’ll be working on when you start, but it will likely evolve.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

• Partner with AI research leadership to understand research roadmaps and proactively identify platform capabilities needed for upcoming initiatives.
• Coordinate with platform capability teams (Inference, Evaluation, Dataset & Training) to ensure a seamless researcher experience across the full ML lifecycle.
• Own and drive the delivery of large, cross‑team, and cross‑group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion, with autonomy and independence of decision making.
• Coach a team of 6+ engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively help them reach their personal growth goals.
• Own the team’s development methodology and rituals such as sprint planning, stand‑ups, retrospectives.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to understand and contribute to the roadmap.
• Plan goals and define success metrics to ensure there is alignment between the company, group, and teams.
• Champion a culture of knowledge sharing and communication across engineering and effectively advocate for ML engineering needs to stakeholders within Canva.
• Run hiring and resourcing needs, including resourcing for the execution of the roadmap.

You're Probably a Match If

About the Team

Canva's AI Platform Group serves as the foundation for AI innovation across the company, supporting MLEs and researchers from our CORE group (Canva Original Research & Exploration) and wider across all of Canva. The AI Enablement teams provide critical hands‑on support to researchers and AI builders globally, helping them navigate platform capabilities, optimising workflows, and accelerating from experimentation to production. These teams bridge the gap between cutting‑edge research needs and platform capabilities, currently supporting initiatives like Project Celestial, Turkey, and the buddy programme for researcher onboarding, whilst ensuring coverage across our global research centres.

We’re seeking an engineering manager who can navigate the unique challenges of supporting research teams whilst maintaining platform excellence. You’ll lead a team that operates at the intersection of cutting‑edge AI research and production systems, requiring both technical depth in ML / data systems and the ability to balance reactive support with proactive platform development.

What’s in It for You?

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

At Canva we value fairness, and we strive to provide competitive, market‑informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learned in the hiring process. The starting salary for this position is 85,000 EUR gross / year. When calculating offers, we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates’ skills and experience.

Other Stuff To Know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. Please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

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!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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