About the Role
You will be accountable for driving the success of the engineering team and building an impactful and cohesive team that is aligned in reaching the vision of the group. You’ll be coaching, mentoring, and growing a team that is a mix of machine learning engineers and backend engineers while developing your coaching capability to scale the team and meet the needs of the recommendations team vision
At the moment this role is focused on:
- Helping the team deliver scalable and robust product features to the core experience for Canva users around the world.
- Encouraging machine learning excellence by helping your team’s MLEs grow their ability to do high velocity, product oriented, and novel machine learning projects.
- Ensuring that your team maintains a high degree of operational readiness by contributing to operational planning, dashboard reviews, and post-incident-reviews.
- Owning and driving the delivery of large, cross-team, and cross-group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion, with autonomy and independence of decision making.
- Collaborating with the Product Manager to understand and contribute to the product roadmap.
- Driving the planning and refinement of seasonal goals, ensuring there is alignment between the company, group, and teams.
- Contributing to high-impact Canva Company goals like Magic Design when the opportunity presents itself.
Fostering a culture of collaboration and advocating for the engineering needs of non-technical collaborators within the group.
