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Canva

France Country Manager

Hybrid

Paris, France

Full Time

12-09-2025

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Leadership Creativity Emotional Intelligence Canva Dynamics Sales SEO Public Speaking Marketing

Job Specifications

Company Description

At Canva, we create tools that empower the world to design. Our mission is to democratise design and empower creativity for anyone and everyone, on every platform! Inspired by a team of talented thinkers, an amazing culture, and a remarkable growth trajectory - we're out to change the world, one design at a time.

Chez Canva, nous concevons des outils qui permettent a chacun de liberer sa creativite. Notre mission : democratiser le design et le rendre accessible a toutes et tous, sur tous les supports. Portes par une equipe talentueuse, une culture unique et une croissance exceptionnelle, nous avons pour ambition de changer le monde, un design a la fois.

Job Description

About the team

Canva's International Team is a diverse & distributed team of content specialists, marketers and growth teams who drive user growth, brand awareness, and affinity in our key international markets. You'll partner closely with leads across the International Supergroup to build and implement a comprehensive multi-year strategy for user and revenue growth goals for your market. You will work with local, regional and central teams including Marketing, Growth, Product, Partnerships, Content, SEO, Education, Community, Sales, NFP, PR, Finance & Strategy.

What You'll Work On...

Strategy. Act as the main POC and be responsible for overall user and revenue growth in France. You'll bring together local and global teams across marketing, sales, product, content and finance to create and execute a cohesive multi-year growth strategy, and own the KPIs including MAUs and ARR.
Localisation. Work closely with the regional team to optimise our product, content, pricing and packaging to meet the needs of local users, informed by a deep understanding of local market dynamics and cultural nuances across a range of audiences, including knowledge workers, SMBs, students, startup ecosystems, NGOs, and other emerging sectors.
Leadership. Inspire, drive and in some cases coach the in-market team, ensuring a high quality bar for impact and working closely with local speciality leads on performance management.
Budget. Partner closely with the regional team and marketing lead to shape the marketing strategy and deployment of budget.
Public face. Represent Canva as a local figurehead across press, PR, events and community, as required.
Sponsorship. Build and support high value relationships by acting as a local sponsor for enterprise sales, education, government, partnerships, etc.

You're probably a match if you are...

Strongly entrepreneurial, with founder-style appetite for growing something big from a small start and working across everything from education to press.
Experienced building a market, for example as the regional GM or brand lead for a global SaaS company, or as a proven founder or growth lead in a startup.
Keenly analytical. Deeply focused on KPIs and obsessive about driving actionable insights from disparate datasets.
Product oriented, with passion for improving the experience of users and the ability to translate these insights into product requirements.
Publicity savvy, with experience doing public speaking and acting as a public face to the press and other stakeholders.
Well networked, ideally with routes into some combination of government departments, corporates, influencers, journalists and local talent.
A proven leader, able to grow, inspire, and coach high-performing teams. You have high emotional intelligence and empathy, and are a deeply collaborative teammate.
A strong communicator, fully proficient in spoken and written English and French, and with the interpersonal skills to influence global and local stakeholders.
Values aligned. Genuinely excited by Canva's mission and deeply aligned with our values, and with exceptional references to prove it.

Equipe Marches Internationaux

Notre equipe internationale est composee de profils varies - specialistes de contenu, responsables marketing, equipes croissance - repartis dans le monde entier. Ensemble, nous developpons la notoriete de la marque et accelerons notre croissance sur nos marches cles.

En tant que Country Manager pour la France, vous collaborerez etroitement avec les leads de l'equipe internationale afin de batir et piloter une strategie pluriannuelle ambitieuse en matiere d'acquisition, d'engagement et de revenus. Vous travaillerez en etroite collaboration avec les equipes locales, regionales et centrales, y compris le marketing, le produit, les partenariats, le contenu, le SEO, l'education, les communautes, les equipes sales, le secteur associatif, les relations presse, la finance et la strategie.

Vos missions...

Strategie. Etre le point de contact principal et le/la responsable de la croissance des utilisateurs et des revenus sur le marche francais. Vous coordonnerez les efforts entre les equipes globales et locales (marketing, ventes, produit, contenu, finance) pour deployer une strategie de croissance coherente et pluriannuelle. Vous se

About the Company

We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big ... Know more