Canva is hiring a Product Manager to focus on AI engineering strategy and platform development, accelerating the work of our engineering team. You will shape how AI empowers over 2,000 engineers, driving adoption of tools, defining success, and curating the AI tooling landscape.
What You'll Do
- Drive the AI engineering strategy and roadmap, shaping the vision for how AI accelerates Canva's engineering team.
- Define the tooling stack, prioritize platform investments, and build business cases to unlock budget and resources.
- Build deep, continuous connection with the engineering community through weekly office hours, bi-weekly roundtables, and active Slack participation.
- Remove barriers and drive adoption by identifying high-impact pain points, shipping quick wins, and creating self-service documentation.
- Define and communicate success by building a measurement framework tracking adoption, productivity, satisfaction, and ROI.
- Curate the tooling landscape and experiment at the edge by maintaining comparisons of AI coding tools and running pilots on emerging capabilities.
- Experiment and build constantly as a practitioner, using AI coding tools daily and building prototypes.
- Elevate the platform product practice by modeling strong product thinking and mentoring other platform PMs.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of product or platform leadership in technical environments.
- Deep experience with developer platforms, internal platforms, or technical B2B products.
- You are a practitioner, using AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and automation platforms (n8n, Zapier, Power Automate) every single day.
- Strong product fundamentals across the full lifecycle: discovery, problem framing, roadmapping, stakeholder communication, and community building.
- Technical fluency with modern engineering practices: CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and the software development lifecycle.
- Experience shipping complex, multi-stakeholder platforms used by thousands daily.
Nice to Have
- Previous experience working on developer experience platforms, internal tooling, or DevOps products.
- Prior experience as an engineer or demonstrated technical building skills.
- AI platform or product experience, having worked directly on AI-focused engineering tooling.
Technical Stack
- AI coding tools: Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot
- Automation platforms: n8n, Zapier, Power Automate
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Infra Supergroup.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds. Hiring decisions are based on experience, skills, passion, and how you enhance Canva and our culture.
