About
About Canva
What Canva does, its mission and values, and what it's like to work there in Australia.
smartrecruiters.com/canva· As of 02 June 2026Canva is a Sydney-headquartered design platform founded in 2013 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams. The product lets non-designers build presentations, documents, social posts, videos, and print collateral from templates, and is used by more than 220 million monthly active users across 190 countries.
The company's Australian headcount sits primarily in Sydney, with the Surry Hills campus housing engineering, design, marketing, finance, and the senior leadership team. Canva operates a hybrid work model — most roles spend two to three days per week onsite when based in a hub city, with fully-remote options for some engineering and product roles.
Canva remains privately held and has raised capital at valuations above US$25 billion. AU hiring covers software engineering across web, mobile, and infrastructure; product design; AI/ML research; data engineering; product management; people operations; and customer-facing teams.