Senior Experiential Marketing Manager - 6-month Contract

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Alongside our global campuses, we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. While we support flexible, remote-friendly ways of working, for this role, we’re focusing on California (San Francisco or LA), so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This role is a 6-month engagement, working 40 hours per week.

What you’d be doing in this role

We’re looking for a seasoned experiential marketer to join Canva’s Brand Experience team as a Senior Experiential Marketing Manager. As a Senior Marketing Manager on the team, your remit will span strategy, project leadership, and flawless delivery of our biggest owned events.

While AI Vision and Owned Events at Canva will be your core responsibility, this role is designed to contribute to the evolution of brand experience at Canva more broadly — helping to shape how we show up across formats, audiences, and moments around the world.

At Canva, this role is focused on:

• Leading Canva’s global owned events end-to-end, setting vision, driving alignment, and managing complex, cross-functional delivery.
• Owning agency partnerships and overseeing planning and execution across programming, creative, production, and operations.
• Partnering with teams across Creative, Campaigns, Product, PMM, B2B Marketing, Sales, and Digital to deliver cohesive, high-quality experiences.
• Shaping content programming for flagship events, including agendas, formats, storytelling, and speaker experiences.
• Extending live experiences into compelling digital moments, including landing pages, promotional assets, and rewatch content.
• Ensuring a consistent, high-bar attendee journey from pre-event through onsite execution to post-event amplification across social, PR, partnerships, and product channels.
• Planing and deliver experiences ranging from large-scale tentpoles to pop-ups and product launches, managing budgets, timelines, vendors, and workflows.

You're probably a match if​​​​​​

• You have 7+ years of experience bringing brands to life through experiential or brand marketing — ideally (but not limited to) working on large-scale, high-profile, and global initiatives.
• You understand what makes audiences tick and know how to craft compelling journeys that inform, inspire, and delight.
• You are fluent in both digital and in-person experiences — and know how to bridge the two seamlessly to create cohesive, resonant storytelling.
• You have worked in or with agencies and are comfortable managing multiple collaborators, vendors, or stakeholders at once.
• You have a strong creative point of view and a deep understanding of how to translate brand objectives into engaging experiential concepts.
• You are equally comfortable mixing creativity with strategic thinking — with the ability to prioritize effectively, zoom in on details, and zoom out to see the big picture.
• You excel at engaging and influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and can confidently lead the process from idea to execution.
• You have high emotional intelligence, empathy. Sense of humor is a must! 
• You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy collaborating across teams, and are excited about working on a global stage (frequent travel is part of the fun!).
• You are excited about Canva’s mission and passionate about delivering meaningful, beautiful brand experiences at scale.

About the team

As a Senior Experiential Marketing Manager, you will sit within the Experiential Team in Brand Marketing and will play a critical role in helping to build and develop how Canva comes to life across the cultural calendar. In close partnership with the cross-functional team at Canva, you will support and help execute an overall global experiential strategy, creative, production and execution of proprietary event tentpoles, sponsor integrations, pop-ups and virtual events in support of Canva’s mission to become the world’s most loved brand. 

Reporting to the one of our Global Experiential Leads for Owned Events, the SEMM will be integral in helping experiential to scale across the globe and support a number of business objectives across the organization. They will oversee the day-to-day project management of high profile programs and help to manage the cross-functional teams that will contribute to the program’s success. Our ideal candidate is a driven, ambitious, self-starter who’s hungry for the challenge of helping to grow the team and push boundaries in the experiential space.

This person must be organized, solution-oriented, able to stay calm under pressure, and flexible enough to adapt to ever-changing project demands. Traits and expertise such as meticulous project management, communication skills, and attention to detail are critical to the success of this position.

Other stuff to know

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 learnt in the hiring process. The target daily rate range for this position is USD904 to USD1,164. When calculating offers, we make rate decisions based on market data and candidates' skills and experience.

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience, skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

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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