Canva · 11 hours ago
Senior Product Manager - AI Developer Experience (Relocation to Australia)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expCanva is a company focused on redefining how the world experiences design. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager for AI Developer Experience to drive AI engineering strategy, build connections with the engineering community, and enhance the adoption of AI tools across their platform.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Graphic DesignPhoto EditingPublishingSoftwareWeb Design
Responsibilities
Drive the AI engineering strategy and roadmap. Working alongside engineering and technical leadership, you'll shape the vision for how AI accelerates Canva's 2,000+ engineers—defining the tooling stack, prioritizing platform investments, and building the business cases that unlock budget and resources
Build deep, continuous connection with the engineering community. Run weekly office hours, host bi-weekly AI Engineering Roundtables, maintain rotating 1:1s with power users, and stay active in Slack channels. You'll become the recognized expert on AI tooling at Canva—someone engineers seek out for advice, feedback, and support
Remove barriers and drive adoption. Identify the highest-impact pain points across the SDLC, ship quick wins that solve repeated problems, create self-service documentation and guides, and run enablement sessions that help teams level up. Your success is measured by how fast engineering teams adopt AI tools and the gains they unlock
Define and communicate success. Build the measurement framework that tracks adoption, productivity, satisfaction, and ROI. Tell the story through regular metrics updates, demos, and case studies that keep stakeholders aligned and prove the value of AI engineering investments
Curate the tooling landscape and experiment at the edge. Maintain a living comparison of AI coding tools, run pilots on emerging capabilities, partner with bleeding-edge adopters to test unproven practices, and influence vendor roadmaps. You'll be the bridge between external innovation and internal application
Experiment and build constantly. You're a practitioner first - using AI coding tools daily, building prototypes and demos, creating automation workflows, and testing new techniques before recommending them. You learn by doing, and your hands-on experience gives you credibility with engineers and informs every strategic decision you make
Elevate the platform product practice. Model strong product thinking in a highly technical environment, mentor other platform PMs, and contribute to raising the bar on how we discover, prioritize, and deliver for internal customers
Qualification
Required
7+ years of product or platform leadership in technical environments
Deep experience with developer platforms, internal platforms, or technical B2B products
You've built for technical users and understand what it takes to earn their trust and drive adoption
You're a practitioner, not just a strategist
You use AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and automation platforms (n8n, Zapier, Power Automate) every single day
You're an early adopter who experiments constantly
You have strong opinions informed by hands-on experience—not just blog posts and vendor pitches
Strong product fundamentals across the full lifecycle
Discovery, synthesis of qualitative and quantitative signals, problem framing, roadmapping, stakeholder communication, and community building
You're deeply empathetic—you can put yourself in engineers' shoes and feel their pain points viscerally
Technical fluency with modern engineering practices
You understand CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and the software development lifecycle
Previous experience working on developer experience platforms, internal tooling, or DevOps products is ideal
Prior experience as an engineer or demonstrated technical building skills is highly regarded
You've shipped complex, multi-stakeholder platforms
You know how to navigate ambiguity, align diverse technical teams (backend, frontend, ML, data), and deliver products that scale
You've built things that thousands of people use daily
Preferred
AI platform or product experience
If you've worked directly on AI-focused engineering tooling, or tackled AI in platform and infrastructure contexts, that's likely a strong advantage
Company
Canva
Canva is an online design and visual communication platform that provides design tools for non-designers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.51BKey Investors
FidelityQuadrant Private EquityStack Capital
2025-08-20Secondary Market
2024-10-31Secondary Market
2024-05-02Secondary Market· $328.51M
Leadership Team
Melanie Perkins
CEO & Co-founder
Cameron Adams
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
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