Description
You’ll love this job if...
- You enjoy writing high-quality and timely educational content like courses, webinars and workshops.
- Coming up with new ideas excites you, as you’ll help to develop content for our different audiences.
- You like a strategic approach, rather than just churning out content for the sake of it. We’re focused on content with impact.
- You can develop content quickly and strategically.
You want to create content that will reach millions of global users. - You flourish in team environments, where you are collaborative and flexible with your writing style to resonate with our users.
- You love to write in different styles for different audiences.
What you’ll do…
- Get familiar with and own Canva’s brand voice. Ensure all of our internal teams, marketing channels and product verticals are speaking the same language.
- Produce flawless copy at pace. Work from ideation to ready to produce copy. You will be writing educational scripts for a video course and need to be able to translate topics simply and in a way that helps people learn.
- Review and edit copy. Go over a large number of scripts, review and edit them to fit our requirements and formats.
- Bring creative ideas. Suggest some visual content ideas to illustrate the copy and bring our courses to life.
- Collaborate with our team of designers, video editors, strategists, producers and other writers and create and publish on-brand content at high velocity.
- Strive to meet deadlines. You work fast and under pressure to meet deadlines.
We'd love it if you have...
- Ability to start right away and get up to speed quickly
- Attention to detail, style and tone. You write with clarity and empathy, and there’s also a sense of playfulness and whimsy that comes across in your work.
- A keen eye for detail, experienced or interested in localization, editing or proofreading.
- Knowing Canva and being able to use it is a plus.
Our Design Education Team
At Canva we’re making design simple and accessible to everyone, empowering people all over the world with a design tool – and the design skills – to help them reach their goals.
Canva Design School offers free design courses, featuring some of the world’s leading experts in their respective fields. Our vision for Design School is to become the best place in the world to learn design, and to offer the best online learning experience possible.
Our Design School team has a wide range of all-round skills. They’re designers, teachers, facilitators, creatives and doers. They facilitate in-person and in-product learning and continuously grow their skills and our courses along with our product and content library.
About Canva
At Canva, we create tools that empower the world to design. Our mission is to democratise design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform! Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture and remarkable growth trajectory – we’re out to change the world, one design at a time.
Since launch in August 2013 we have grown exponentially, amassing over 30 million active users across 190 different countries who have created more than 2 Billion designs. We are one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies and we have only achieved about 1% of what we are capable of!
In your cover letter please answer the following questions:
- Do you have experience using Canva? If so please send a link to a design which you have created.
- What languages can you speak and write fluently. Please list.
- Describe your recent experience with similar projects
- In which timezone you will be working in?