About the Group/Team
Canva’s mission is to empower the world to design. With over 220 million users already on board, we have a bold vision to reach 1 billion users. The CJKI Group is dedicated to this mission, pouring our hearts and souls into driving hyperlocalization. We strive to make Canva feel like a local experience in China, Japan, South Korea, and India, ensuring that our platform resonates deeply with users in these regions.
About the Role/Specialty
This role is for a high-performance, highly efficient Product Manager who thrives without a fixed lane — focusing on high-impact, high-ambiguity initiatives across Canva's core growth entry points and platform-level experiences, and moving across domains and markets as business priorities requires. You will operate in a highly complex organizational environment, driving alignment, making clear trade-offs, and delivering measurable outcomes quickly, in unfamiliar territory, with minimal ramp-up time
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
Big Bets Project Owner (CJKI Scope)
- Own end-to-end product strategy, execution, and outcomes for major initiatives
- Translate global product vision into actionable, market-appropriate solutions for CJKI
- Define MBR metrics (input, output & guardrails) and continuously track impact
Product Strategy & Decision-Making
- Rapidly build deep understanding of user behavior and pain points in whatever domain or market you’re deployed to
- Make high-quality decisions under uncertainty, even with incomplete data or insights
- Balance global consistency vs. regional differentiation, clearly articulating trade-offs
Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence
- Partner closely with Growth, Subscription, Homepage, Brand, Design, Infra, Data, Marketing, and other teams
- Quickly building credibility with new partners each time you move onto a new initiative
- Drive alignment and execution without direct reporting authority
- Communicate progress, risks, and key decisions clearly to senior stakeholders, including Big Bets leaders
Experimentation & Iteration
- Reduce uncertainty through A/B testing, phased rollouts, and experimentation frameworks — grounding every experiment in a clearly articulated intent and hypothesis, with input metrics, outcome metrics, and guardrails defined upfront rather than after the fact.
- Learn quickly, iterate rapidly, and strike the right balance between speed and quality, treating every result — positive or negative — as a source of durable learning rather than a simple ship/no-ship verdict
What we're looking for
Must-have
- 5–8+ years of Product Management experience, with ownership of high-impact, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong experience in Growth or Monetization, with a demonstrated track record of being able to move across multiple product domains rather than staying only in a single lane — you're energized by picking up new problem spaces quickly, not just going deep in one.
- Strong structured thinking: breaks down ambiguous problems with rigor, reasons through edge cases and second-order effects before committing to a direction, rather than jumping straight to a solution
- Clear communicator and documenter: translates that thinking into thorough PRDs, tailors messages to the audience, and stays organized — tracking work in Jira and keeping stakeholders proactively updated
- Strong data fluency, able to combine data and user insights to drive decisions
- Deep understanding of at least one CJKI market (China / Japan / Korea/ India), with the ability to scale insights beyond a single market
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders you haven’t worked with before
- Actively uses AI to amplify their own output and impact — from speeding up research to prototyping and finding new ways AI can extend what one PM can cover across multiple initiatives — rather than treating AI as optional or someone else's job
- Fluent in English and comfortable working in a global context
Nice-to-have
- Experience with product growth, ecommerce, or subscription domain
- Proven success handling regional differentiation and localization in global products
- Background in B2C or Product-Led Growth (PLG) environments
Skills Required
- 5-8+ years of Product Management experience
- Experience owning high-impact, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong experience in Growth or Monetization
- Ability to work across multiple product domains and quickly learn new problem spaces
- Strong structured thinking and ability to reason through ambiguous problems, edge cases, and second-order effects
- Ability to create thorough product requirements documents and communicate clearly to different audiences
- Experience tracking work in Jira and proactively updating stakeholders
- Strong data fluency and ability to combine data with user insights
- Deep understanding of at least one CJKI market: China, Japan, Korea, or India
- Excellent communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Active use of AI to improve research, prototyping, and productivity
- Fluent English and comfort working in a global context
- Experience with product growth, ecommerce, or subscription domains
- Success handling regional differentiation and localization in global products
- Background in B2C or Product-Led Growth environments
Canva Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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