Growth Marketing Lead, North America (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Canva Canva · Enterprise · Sydney, NSW, Australia · Marketing

Canva is seeking a Growth Marketing Lead for North America to own the regional growth strategy, manage a multi-million dollar paid media budget, and drive performance across various digital channels. This role requires deep expertise in paid social and video, comfort with multiple measurement methodologies, and experience running growth experiments. The lead will collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape campaigns and strategy, aiming to drive scaled user and revenue growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Owning the regional growth strategy for your remit — translating business objectives into channel mix, audience priorities, moments, and investment decisions that deliver measurable impact on MAU, revenue, and ROAS
  2. Managing a multi-million dollar paid media budget with direct accountability for results, running monthly investment optimisations and making smart trade-offs across channels, SKUs, and audiences as performance shifts
  3. Navigating multiple measurement methodologies — in-platform metrics, geo-lift incrementality testing, and MMM — to make confident investment calls even when signals conflict, and contributing to MMM calibration on an ongoing basis
  4. Leading performance across high-impact paid social and video channels (Meta, TikTok, YouTube) as well as Display, Pinterest, and SEM, in partnership with Channel Specialists and the Growth Centre of Excellence — owning the full funnel from audience and creative strategy through to bidding, pacing, and structural testing
  5. Driving the creative strategy in close partnership with the NAMER Creative Strategist — contributing hypotheses on audiences, formats, platform behaviours, and Category Entry Points, ensuring creative velocity stays high and that learnings are codified and acted on

Skills

Required

  • performance or growth marketing
  • paid media budget management
  • paid social and video advertising
  • measurement methodologies (in-platform metrics, geo-lift, MMM)
  • A/B testing and experimentation
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • budget management

Nice to have

  • multi-market experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years in performance or growth marketing at a scaled consumer tech or DTC brand
  • owned significant budget (think $10M+)
  • genuine depth in paid social and video
  • comfortable across multiple measurement methodologies
  • designed and run growth experiments
  • think like an investment manager when it comes to budget