About this role
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where and how you can work
The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney, Australia, London is our HQ for Europe, with all kinds of teams based here, plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. You’ll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house, amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.
About the Team
The International SEO team is responsible for improving SEO performance of logged-out pages across the Canva website. Our mission in SEO is to empower every user in the world to discover Canva.
We're a global team of specialists spanning keyword research, technical SEO, content strategy, outreach, engineering, data analytics, design, and operations. We work across many regions and languages, combining proven frameworks with deep local market expertise.
About the Role
As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
Canva's SEO is world-class, and we're looking for a passionate i18n Technical SEO Specialist to join the International SEO team to help scale our next phase of growth across priority international markets.
The i18n Technical SEO Specialist will work closely with the i18n Technical SEO Lead and SEO Country Leads across multiple markets. Your role is to maintain the technical health of Canva's international pages — identifying issues, implementing fixes, and ensuring our global SEO infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and optimised for discovery.
This is a primarily execution-focused role with a strong advisory component. You'll use SEO tools to surface errors and opportunities, provide clear recommendations to Country Leads, and implement changes directly or in collaboration with engineering and platform teams.
Canva is a fast-growing, mission-driven company, and we're looking for talented people who want to contribute to something meaningful. If you're excited about the opportunity to make an impact, show us what you've got — strong performers in this role have significant opportunities to grow with us.
What you’ll do
i18n Technical SEO Support & Execution
Provide hands-on technical SEO support to SEO Country Leads across multiple international markets
Identify, recommend, and implement technical SEO fixes and improvements aligned with market strategies
Maintain the technical health of international pages to support scaling and performance
Use SEO tools to surface errors, warnings, and opportunities
Investigate and resolve issues such as response status code errors, structured data problems, JS rendering issues, and crawl inefficiencies
Ensure fixes are implemented correctly and validated post-launch
Hreflang & Indexation Governance
Monitor and maintain hreflang implementation, indexation, and crawlability across locales
Identify and resolve issues related to duplication, incorrect locale targeting, or indexing inefficiencies
Ensure international pages follow established technical SEO best practices
Platform & Engineering Collaboration
Collaborate with engineering and i18n platform teams when technical changes require development support
Provide clear context and requirements for technical SEO changes
Align with the i18n Technical SEO Lead to ensure consistency with existing processes and standards across markets
Tooling, Workflow & Reporting
Use Jira and other internal tools to manage tickets and track technical SEO work
Maintain clear documentation of issues, recommendations, and implementations
Proactively support the triaging of all requests coming from SEO Country Leads and local SEO teams — ensuring every task is crystal clear, actionable, and easy to prioritise before it moves forward
For requests flowing in the opposite direction — from Central SEO to local SEO teams — ensure everything is crystal clear, actionable, and ready to dispatch with no follow-up needed
Share progress and outcomes with SEO Country Leads and the i18n Technical SEO Lead in a timely and transparent way
Performance Monitoring & Debugging
Monitor performance following technical SEO changes to ensure expected outcomes
Support Country Leads with technical insights when investigating performance changes or anomalies
Surface issues proactively before they compound across markets
Navigating the Evolution of Search & Discovery
Stay curious about how AI-powered search and discovery is evolving — including how users find information through platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews
Understand where traditional technical SEO drives value versus where new approaches may be more effective
Stay up to date on GEO/AEO evolutions and next-generation optimisation techniques relevant to technical SEO
Be open to experimenting with new technical approaches as the search landscape evolves
Share observations and learnings about how technical factors affect discoverability in your markets, contributing to our global understanding of emerging trends
What we're looking for
Core Skills & Experience
At least 3 years of experience in SEO, with solid hands-on exposure to technical SEO
Strong understanding of core technical SEO concepts: hreflang, indexation, crawlability, site architecture, and structured data
Experience identifying and resolving technical issues such as 3xx/4xx errors, structured data errors, JS rendering issues, and crawl inefficiencies
Familiarity with SEO tools such as Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Ahrefs, Botify, Lumar (DeepCrawl), Screaming Frog, or similar
Strong English communication skills for collaboration across international and central teams
High attention to detail with the ability to follow technical processes and maintain quality standards
Strong time management: ability to self-manage across multiple markets and priorities simultaneously
Required Experience
Experience with large-scale database-driven or UGC platforms (marketplace pages, template libraries, user-generated content at scale)
Experience with automation, internal tooling, or AI-assisted technical SEO workflows
Familiarity with technically complex, programmatically generated page sets — understanding how site structure, crawl efficiency, and indexation behave at scale
Working Style
Proactive and thorough: You surface issues early and follow through to resolution
Comfortable operating in a multi-market environment while maintaining alignment with central standards
Clear communicator who can translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for non-technical stakeholders
Collaborative mindset: You build relationships easily, work well across teams, and contribute positively to team culture
Willing to give and receive feedback constructively, always aiming to improve quality and craft
Future-Oriented & Adaptable Mindset
Curiosity about emerging channels: You're actively interested in how discovery is evolving — including AI search, LLMs, and new platforms — and you're eager to learn
Comfort with ambiguity: You can experiment with new technical approaches (like structured data for AI-generated answers) even when best practices are still being established
Channel-agnostic thinking: You understand that "technical SEO" increasingly means "technical discoverability" — across search engines, AI tools, and platforms yet to emerge
Data-driven adaptability: You can objectively assess what's working and adjust your approach based on performance signals
Early adopter energy: You're the type of person who's already curious about how technical factors affect Canva's visibility in new discovery channels, bringing insights rather than waiting for direction
Nice-to-Haves
Familiarity with multi-platform search ecosystems beyond Google (Bing, Naver, Yahoo, Baidu, etc)
Background working across international markets
Business-level proficiency in a second language relevant to Canva's priority markets
What You'll Learn and How You'll Develop
Build deep practical expertise in international technical SEO execution across dozens of markets
Develop strong cross-functional collaboration skills working with SEO, engineering, and platform teams
Learn from and be guided by experienced international SEO leads with a track record of building high-performing local SEO teams
Gain exposure to Canva's global SEO systems and international growth playbooks
Grow toward greater ownership and independence — with a clear path into broader technical SEO or specialist roles
What's in it for you?
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard—but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connection, and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to support your success inside and outside work:
• Equity packages – we want our success to be yours too
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that let you recharge or take time to give back
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.