Head of Business Technology Platforms

Head Of Business Technology Platforms

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with global hubs across the US, Europe and Asia. For this role you can be based in San Francisco or Australia, with flexibility in how you work and collaborate with your team.

At Canva, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

Job Description

What you'd be doing in this role:

As Canva continues to scale, our internal technology platforms must evolve alongside the business.

As Head of Business Technology Platforms, you'll lead the strategy, architecture, and engineering capability behind the systems that power Canva's core business operations — including our Finance and People platforms.

This is a highly strategic leadership role within our IT organisation, responsible for ensuring these platforms are secure, scalable, and ready to support Canva as we continue to grow globally and operate at public-company scale.

You'll partner closely with leaders across Finance, People, and Security, Trust & IT to shape the platform strategy that underpins how Canva runs, reports, and scales.

This role is focused on:

• Setting the long-term technical vision, architecture, and strategy for Canva's Finance and People platforms
• Establishing strong governance and control frameworks across business systems to support auditability, compliance, and public-company readiness
• Building and scaling engineering capability within our business platform teams, evolving from configuration-heavy systems toward platform ownership and technical depth
• Defining Canva's strategy for automation and AI adoption across internal business platforms, enabling smart and efficient operations
• Leading strategic vendor relationships and ensuring platform partners deliver to Canva's standards for quality, reliability, and innovation
• Acting as a senior partner to Finance, People, and executive leadership, translating platform risk, architecture, and roadmap into clear strategic narratives

You're probably a match if:

• You've led large-scale enterprise platform, infrastructure, or internal technology organisations in high-growth technology environments
• You have experience operating in — or preparing organisations for — public company environments, with strong governance, compliance, and controls expectations
• You bring deep expertise across enterprise systems such as ERP, HRIS, or financial platforms, and have led major platform implementations or transformations
• You think in systems — understanding architecture, integrations, data flows, and how platforms support business outcomes
• You've built and scaled high-performing platform teams, moving organisations from reactive support models to proactive platform ownership
• You're an experienced senior stakeholder partner, comfortable working with executive leaders as well as technical teams
• You bring strong vendor and partner leadership experience, including managing strategic technology relationships and complex platform ecosystems

About the team

IT at Canva is evolving into a modern platform-driven organisation — one that combines strong engineering capability, operational excellence, and governance foundations required for a global technology company.

The Business Platform team sits at the heart of this evolution. We partner closely with Finance and People teams to build the systems and infrastructure that power how Canva operates internally — from financial reporting and workforce systems to the platforms that support thousands of Canvanauts around the world.

We operate with high trust, low hierarchy, and a strong bias toward building things well, not just fast.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

At Canva we value fairness, and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. The target salary range for this position is $306,000 to $443,000. When calculating offers, we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates' skills and experience.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

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!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.