Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

Canva’s Commitment and Mission
At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We mean it when we say we want to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where we value all different types of experiences and want to create a space and culture where you feel like you belong.

We know it can be a tricky time applying for roles, wondering if the role is right for you and if you and your experience are right for the role too. Many people won’t apply for roles unless they feel that they tick every single box. At Canva we look for many different skills and abilities and we’re always looking for how new team members can add to Canva and our culture. So if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed, we’d still love to hear from you!

Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 75 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 2,800 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

Be a Force for Good
We’re driven by our values, with our ‘Be a Force for Good’ value supporting everything that we do. Through your work on our product or team, and our community initiatives and sustainability programs, you’re given the opportunity to come to Canva and make a tangible difference to the lives of others in your day-to-day life. In addition to our Founder’s 30% Pledge, Canva is committed to Pledge 1% and actively encourages our team to participate in many ways, including taking paid volunteer leave.

Your journey with Canva could take you to places that you might not have even imagined yet. There’s opportunity around every corner and the support to help you achieve your goals. Join us and design your future.

About the Team

The Canva Print team is enabling the best creation tool in the world for print products and igniting the power of Canva to a vast array of physical products from common paper products to textiles, home decor, apparel, photos gifts and more.
Growing Canva Print has become a key goal this year and our group is doubling down on doing a wide range of new product initiatives to drive the team’s growth while developing e-commerce foundations to accelerate Canva’s vision to empower the world to truly design anything, and publish anywhere.

We’ve seen incredible growth, and we are rapidly scaling in this space, but there is a whole lot more to do to achieve our vision, and that’s where you come in!

Role Mission

The Print Operations team is looking for a Product Sustainability & Compliance Manager that will develop global compliance processes that allow the Canva Print business to continue to scale quickly! The Product Sustainability & Compliance Manager is accountable for ensuring that Canva takes an industry leading position in developing and sourcing safe products and creating continuous process improvement to address evolving compliance, sustainability and social requirements. This individual will implement materials, processes, and work with print providers in the manufacturing of Canva products as we work on achieving carbon neutrality and carbon positive goals in the coming years.

We’re looking for an experienced leader ideally based in San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX.

What you’ll do

• Ensure products continuously align with Canva’s quality, performance, and reliability globally as well as industry safety and regulatory requirements worldwide
• Develop sustainability initiatives and targets to align with Carbon neutral and Carbon positive goals
• Ensure that our Global Print Partners adhere to industry safety and regulatory requirements
• Planning and implementing complex projects across multiple organizations and team members to enable the launch of projects and processes at scale
• Driving consensus for the safety and compliance strategy with key internal partners
• Making data-driven recommendations to senior management on prioritization of controls for product safety and compliance
• Earning trust of business partners by understanding business plans and constraints, anticipating safety and compliance challenges and proactively communicating effective solutions
• Developing periodic business reviews by creating and monitoring business metrics to track process effectiveness

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated leader who has played an instrumental role in building, leading, and growing a hard working team in the Print On-Demand (PoD) industry.
• Depth of knowledge in the Apparel is preferred.
• Extensive experience working with audit, testing and certification partners to create a simple and scalable process for our products.
• Knowledge and implementation of worldwide safety & compliance requirements, product compliance processes and the interplay with global supply chains
• 8+ years of dynamic compliance experience in high-growth companies, E-commerce physical product fulfillment in a global setting is a requirement
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience in a program management, product management, risk management, analytics or business intelligence role
• Bias toward action; understands what it means to adapt quickly, pivot, have a growth mindset, collaborate cross-functionally, and bring people together towards a common goal.
• Hands-on Manager willing to work directly with our Print partners on site with audits, review and process implementation changes.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and analytic skills (including problem-solving), as well as the ability and confidence to draw conclusions, formulate recommendations and partner with colleagues to implement findings.
• Able to handle multiple tasks, demonstrates flexibility in readiness to prioritize and maintain a result-orientation.

Working at Canva
Our culture is unlike anywhere else and together we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.

Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, we recognise that every single person is unique and our Canvanaut benefits aim to ensure we cater for all.

Our benefits include:
• Our hybrid work model (in-office & from home) brings our people together for 8 key days a year. The rest of the year you and your team can determine the balance that works best for you.
• Unique and flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
• An inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey to support work-life balance.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development. It could be anything, from a Masterclass subscription, to an electronic stand-up desk, a pilates membership, or dinner out with a teammate. Because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
• We have virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs, Fitness Classes and other benefits to support your physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
• Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.