Company Description
About the Group/Team Canva’s mission is to empower the world to design. With over 220 million users already on board, we have a bold vision to reach 1 billion users. The CJKI Group is dedicated to this mission, pouring our hearts and souls into driving hyperlocalization. We strive to make Canva feel like a local experience in China, Japan, South Korea, and India, ensuring that our platform resonates deeply with users in these regions.
About the Role/Specialty This role is for a Product Manager who focuses on high-impact, high-ambiguity initiatives across Canva’s core growth entry points and platform-level experiences, while bridging Global Big Bets strategy with the real user, business, and market dynamics of CJKI. You will operate in a highly complex organizational environment, driving alignment, making clear trade-offs, and delivering measurable outcomes. You are not building a small feature—you are reshaping how users experience Canva the first time, the second time, and the Nth time they open the product.
Job Description
**What you’ll do (responsibilities) **
Big Bets Project Owner (CJKI Scope)
- Own end-to-end product strategy, execution, and outcomes for major initiatives
- Translate global product vision into actionable, market-appropriate solutions for CJKI
- Define MBR metrics (input, output & guardrails) and continuously track impact
Product Strategy & Decision-Making
- Deeply understand CJKI user behavior and pain points across acquisition, activation, retention, and sharing
- Make high-quality decisions under uncertainty, even with incomplete data or insights
- Balance global consistency vs. regional differentiation, clearly articulating trade-offs
Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence
- Partner closely with Growth, Homepage, Brand, Design, Infra, Data, Marketing, and other teams
- Drive alignment and execution without direct reporting authority
- Communicate progress, risks, and key decisions clearly to senior stakeholders, including Big Bets leaders
Experimentation & Iteration
- Reduce uncertainty through A/B testing, phased rollouts, and experimentation frameworks
- Learn quickly, iterate rapidly, and strike the right balance between speed and quality
Qualifications
What we're looking for
Must-have
- 5–8+ years of Product Management experience, with ownership of high-impact, cross-functional initiatives
- Strong experience in Growth, Core Experience, Platform, or Entry-point products
- Proven ability to define problems, set strategy, and deliver outcomes in highly ambiguous environments
- Strong data fluency, able to combine data and user insights to drive decisions
- Deep understanding of at least one CJKI market (China / Japan / Korea/ India), with the ability to scale insights beyond a single market
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Fluent in English and comfortable working in a global context
Nice-to-have
- Experience with product growth, distribution entry points, growth platforms
- Proven success handling regional differentiation and localization in global products
- Background in B2C or Product-Led Growth (PLG) environments