Full-Time

Strategic Account Executive

Canva

Canva

10,001+ employees

Online drag-and-drop graphic design platform

Compensation Overview

$315k - $411k/yr

+ Equity packages

New York, NY, USA

Remote

Remote role; must be based in New York City.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Salesforce

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Requirements
  • 8+ years of full cycle selling experience working with a range of customers, from medium-sized businesses to large corporations; for the Strategic role, experience with large named accounts ideally on a global scale within a technology company, demonstrating a history of top performance
  • Proven success managing a full sales cycle, including prospecting with a focus on new logo attainment
  • Ability to navigate complexity by understanding and addressing complex business challenges, crafting solutions
  • Talent for creating detailed plans that cover all the bases within intricate organizations
  • Skills to captivate an audience, especially during face-to-face meetings with multiple key players
  • Track record of leading successful (and complex) negotiations
  • Comfortable navigating uncertainty and able to keep up in a fast-paced environment
Responsibilities
  • Account Planning: You will lead with a data-driven approach to identify and reach out to potential customers who are likely to benefit from Canva's products. Analyze market landscapes, trends, and dynamics to translate high-level plans into targeted sales activities.
  • Managing Pipeline + Revenue Growth: You will manage pipeline, revenue forecasts, sales activity using Salesforce for maximum efficiency and visibility
  • Customer Centric: You will leverage compelling storytelling and vision transfer, presented through a creative lens, to guide customers on a journey that feels personalized and right for them.
  • Be a product expert: Exhibit a deep love for Canva’s product and an ability to sell creative solutions that address customers’ unique problems. You will gather customer feedback and convey market needs to inform the Product roadmap and provide insights that strengthen our value proposition and enhance the customer experience
  • Foster long-term relationships: Recognize the value of building long-term relationships and strive to create lasting partnerships both with customers and internal cross functional teams (Product, Eng, Post-Sales, Customer Success).
  • Bring chaos to clarity: Simplifying complex situations into digestible customer-ready stories and materials using Canva’s worksuite (presentations, doc etc.)

Canva is an online, drag‑and‑drop graphic design platform for creating visuals like presentations, social media graphics, posters, logos, and videos. It uses a large library of templates, stock photos and videos, fonts, and AI-powered features (Magic Studio), plus a freemium model with paid plans for additional assets and collaboration tools; Canva Print lets users order physical copies. The company differentiates itself by focusing on ease of use for non-designers and expanding its assets and capabilities through acquisitions such as Pexels, Pixabay, Flourish, and the Affinity suite. Its goal is to help anyone create professional-looking visuals quickly and collaboratively, without needing advanced design skills.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$1.1B

Headquarters

Sydney, Australia

Founded

2012

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Canva's Creative Operating System debuted June 2026 uses AI to auto-generate tailored ad variants enhancing creative-to-performance alignment.
  • Canva expanded AI assistant June 2026 to automatically call tools like Slack and Gmail for context-aware design generation.
  • Canva serves over 265 million monthly users globally and ranks third among most-used AI platforms worldwide.

What critics are saying

  • Adobe and Figma encroach on Canva's workflow with agentic AI automating final mile editing threatening unique value in 12–18 months.
  • Figma's $19.3B IPO 2026 unleashes venture-backed expansion into enterprise design markets directly competing with Canva's valuation and user base.
  • Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude embedding Canva's design model as backend service without brand attribution risks turning Canva into free API layer.

What makes Canva unique

  • Canva Grow 2.0 launched June 25, 2026 enables AI-powered ad creation and bulk publishing across major platforms.
  • Canva AI 2.0 announced June 2026 introduces conversational assistant generating editable designs from chat prompts with real-time editing.
  • Canva Business at $20/month per person since June 2026 integrates advanced AI and marketing insights tailored for small businesses.

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Benefits

Competitive health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing

Equity packages truly be a part of the Canva journey

401(k) retirement plan with company contribution to support you, with your future Hybrid work model (in-office & from home) coming together for 8 days a year. The rest, you choose where you work best.

Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.

Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.

An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development. It could be anything, from a Masterclass subscription to an electronic stand-up desk, a pilates membership, or dinner out with a teammate. Because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.

Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and other benefits to support your physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

-1%
Robinhood Markets
Jun 26th, 2026
Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) Invests $25M in Canva

Robinhood Ventures Fund I announced it has closed an investment in Canva. On June 24, 2026 RVI purchased approximately $25 million of Class A Common Stock of Canva.

Bloomberg L.P.
Apr 16th, 2026
Canva unveils AI 2.0 to protect $42B valuation amid tech disruption

Canva has launched Canva AI 2.0, a major product reboot designed to protect its $42 billion valuation in the AI era. The new tools allow the company's 265 million monthly users to generate designs using conversational language rather than templates—for instance, requesting a colourful 12-page Morocco trip planning deck that the AI agent builds and iterates. Co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht unveiled the workflow tools at an event in Sydney in early April, with the product released on Thursday. The rebuild represents Canva's strategy to position itself as a disruptor rather than a target amid concerns that AI could undermine traditional software business models. The move signals Canva's push to remain competitive as AI transforms the design platform landscape.

PR Newswire
Apr 9th, 2026
PayPal brings payment links to Canva's 265M users as social commerce nears $1T

PayPal has launched Payment Links directly within Canva, enabling the platform's 265 million monthly users to accept payments from their designs without external websites or complex e-commerce tools. The integration allows creators and small businesses to add PayPal checkout, including Venmo and PayPal Pay Later, to digital or printed content. The feature addresses growing demand for social commerce, projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2028. Users can generate payment links or QR codes, create customised checkout pages, and accept payments across approximately 200 markets in multiple currencies. The app is available globally through Canva Marketplace. PayPal will showcase the integration at Canva Create on 16 April 2026 in Los Angeles, where it serves as Official Payment Partner.

TechCrunch
Apr 8th, 2026
Canva doubles down on AI and marketing automation with Simtheory, Ortto acquisitions | TechCrunch

Canva says the acquisitions add strengths in agentic AI, data infrastructure, marketing automation, and customer engagement.

Capital Brief
Mar 24th, 2026
Scoop: Canva acquires Melbourne ad-tech startup Doohly for $30m

The purchase of the digital out-of-home startup is the latest in a string of deals by Canva as it looks to own the entire marketing stack.