Education Lead, Vietnam (k-12 and Higher Education)

Canva Canva · Enterprise · Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Marketing

The Education Lead for Vietnam will drive Canva's awareness and adoption within the pre-sales education lifecycle (K-12, higher education, lifelong learning), focusing on individual educators and students. This role involves shaping strategy, executing initiatives across marketing, content, and community, gathering local insights, building non-commercial partnerships, and collaborating with B2B Education Sales teams. The goal is to grow Education Monthly Active Users (Edu MAUs) by embedding Canva into teaching and learning workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the national education adoption strategy across K–20, focused on growing Canva usage among individual students, teachers, and educators. Partner closely with the Country Manager to set priorities and execute locally.
  2. Lead Education initiatives locally, coordinating across marketing, content, community, product, and localisation partners to drive awareness, onboarding, and activation.
  3. Design and deliver education-focused onboarding programs, campaigns, and initiatives that help educators and students embed Canva into everyday teaching and learning workflows.
  4. Build deep insight into the local education landscape across K–12, tertiary, and lifelong learning. Translate educator and student needs into clear, actionable feedback for product, content, and localisation teams.
  5. Build and nurture partnerships with schools, education networks, NGOs, and educator communities to support adoption, training, and engagement. This role does not carry direct sales targets.

Skills

Required

  • Extensive experience growing a market, segment, or program (ideally in education, SaaS, consumer tech, or a mission-driven organisation)
  • Deep familiarity with Vietnam’s education ecosystem across K–12, higher education, or lifelong learning
  • Experience working directly with educators, students, or education organisations, and the government
  • Strong communication skills
  • Fluent in Vietnamese and English
  • Analytical and outcome-focused
  • Product-minded

Nice to have

  • Understand how adoption happens at scale

What the JD emphasized

  • deep familiarity with Vietnam’s education ecosystem across K–12, higher education