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, with a campus in Melbourne, this role is based in Sydney or Melbourne. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals, while collaborating closely with global teams across time zones.
What you’d be doing in this role
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that’s all part of the fun. This role will give you the flavour of the type of things you’ll be working on when you start — but it will likely evolve.
We’re looking for a Motion Designer (Social Content). A creative skilled in animation, motion graphics, and short-to-mid-form video storytelling. This role focuses on creating high-quality video assets, animation sequences, transitions, visual effects, and narrative-driven content for Canva’s content library.
This role creates the raw video and motion assets that power templates, storyboards, learning content, character packs, animated scenes, and more. Your work directly contributes to Canva’s video ecosystem, helping millions of users tell better stories through motion and moving visuals.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Design and animate video assets, motion graphics, transitions, characters, and storytelling elements
Create looping animations, expressive scenes, and narrative-driven sequences
Collaborate with template designers to ensure assets integrate seamlessly into user workflows
Work with product teams to understand new motion features and build assets that demonstrate them
Maintain high levels of craft while producing content at scalable volume
Participate in creative reviews, asset planning, and experimentation cycles
Stay up-to-date with animation trends, editing styles, and visual storytelling techniques
This role is perfect for designers who are:
Motion-obsessed and skilled in animation, timing, pacing, and visual storytelling
Comfortable working across multiple styles
Excited to create assets that empower others to tell their stories
Inspired by the challenge of simplifying professional-level motion for everyday users
Curious about the evolving world of motion design, film language, and mixed-media visuals
Collaborative, autonomous, and comfortable working in fast-paced content production environments
About the team
The Content Studio team within the Global Content & Discovery supergroup is on a mission to empower the world to design. We create world-class templates and creative assets that inspire users, unlock new use cases, and showcase the best of Canva’s product capabilities.
We work at the intersection of culture, creativity, and product — partnering closely with teams across Video, Editing, AI, and Discovery to ensure Canva stays at the forefront of visual communication globally.
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Here's a taste of what's on offer:
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
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
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. When you apply, 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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Skills Required
- Skilled in animation, motion graphics, timing, pacing, and visual storytelling
- Experience creating high-quality video assets, animation sequences, transitions, and visual effects
- Ability to create looping animations, expressive scenes, and narrative-driven sequences
- Experience collaborating with template designers and product teams to integrate assets
- Comfortable working across multiple styles and producing content at scalable volume
- Portfolio demonstrating relevant motion design and video work (link required)
- Based in Sydney or Melbourne (role is located at those campuses)
- Collaborative, autonomous, and able to work in fast-paced content production environments
Canva Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Canva and has not been reviewed or approved by Canva.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave from day one, inclusive of all parents. Additional supports include flexibility in how leave is taken and resources around pregnancy loss and caregiving.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Extra paid time off categories expand beyond standard PTO. Examples include five Flex Leave days, three days of paid volunteering, and milestone Epic Experience time off at 5 and 10 years.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is a core element of total rewards. Company materials and industry reporting note periodic opportunities to realize value through secondary transactions, enhancing perceived upside.
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What We Do
Canva is an online graphic design platform with a mission to empower everyone to design anything and publish anywhere, offering a free-to-use tool for creating social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos, and more.
