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Head of Design Research
Location
Australia
Posted
151 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Head of Design Research
Canva
• Lead, mentor, and grow the Design Research team—building research capability, fostering psychological safety, and developing consistent standards of excellence across evaluative and generative methods • Craft and lead a design research strategy that informs product vision, company goals, and long-term opportunities in an AI era • Drive streams of work to find and fix user issues across Canva’s product surfaces • Enable product teams to confidently conduct their own research through training, templates, and shared frameworks • Evolve the Design Research sub specialty by strengthening methodologies, elevating craft standards, and integrating AI-assisted techniques that improve speed, quality, and scale • Set and maintain a quality bar for design research - both via hands-on research, and coaching, training, processes, and oversight • Define and measure research success metrics • Define and manage the research tool ecosystem - including AI-enabled platforms that improve insight generation, collaboration, and organisational understanding
Job Requirements
- Seasoned leader with deep expertise across generative, evaluative, and mixed-methods research
- Motivated by shaping product strategy, elevating research craft, and integrating emerging AI capabilities into meaningful practice
- AI research native, consistently learning and evolving skills as fast as the technology is unlocking capabilities
- Skilled leader to ensure the team has the right strategy, quality bar, and delivery
- Passionate about using research to drive business and product strategy to delight our community, from the most high level strategy all the way to specific product details
- Strong stakeholder management and communications skills to partner with senior leaders and ICs across Product, Design, Engineering, and Data
- Force multiplier to amplify the impact of research by unlocking Product teams across Canva to conduct their own research
Benefits
- Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally
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