Senior Brand Designer (Contract) - Sydney

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 Sydney so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This role is a short-term engagement from 2nd Feb - 16th April 2026, working full-time hours per week.

What you’d be doing in this role

We are looking for a Senior Designer who can conceptualise and deliver an exception and consistent brand experience across many media touchpoints. An understanding that spans digital design and web technologies is key to this, to help ensure sure that your vision is fully realised.

At the moment this role is focussed on:

• Designing creative assets to support new brand graphics, brand-in-product applications and a wide range of other creative outputs
• Contributing to creative concepts and design asset rollout for brand in product applications
• Conceptualising and ideate a diverse range of branded content (print, experiential, digital and motion) that brings our core brand to life in exciting creative executions
• Collaborating with a team of writers, designers, animators and videographers to bring our brand assets to life in unique and unforgettable ways
• Participating in and contribute to conceptual workshops and ideation for video production requirements
• Help guide more junior members of the team through established feedback processes and informal mentorship.

You're probably a match if

• You’re a master designer, able to visualise the brand and its products to myriad demographics and personas clearly. Creating a sense of connection in their work between Canva and the audience
• You’re the perfect balance between ideation at a conceptual level and execution, in bringing your ideas to life
• You’re interested in learning about digital strategies and web-based methodologies, because your work will help define the future of Canva’s brand
• You’re well-versed in static and motion design and an understanding of how to connect with audiences through a variety of different platform
• You have a minimum of 8 years in a forward-thinking brand design role
• An online portfolio that demonstrates:
• Strong brand design principles and craft
• A modern style & aesthetic
• Creative thinking
• Attention to detail
• Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Affinity and Canva
• Good organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, the Adobe Creative Suite and Canva.
• Good organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.

About the team

You will be part of the Canva Brand Studio and work in conjunction with Brand Designers, Illustrators and Motion Designers to bring ideas to life through multiple channels and surfaces. You will work closely with cross functional teams at Canva (Marketing, Channel, Product, Experiential) to understand our products and ensure our brand is consistent across all consumer touch points.

Other stuff to know

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!

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.