What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Legal Counsel Product Privacy AI position at Canva?
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hello gday mabuhay kia ora hallo vtejte!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
Our flagship office is in Sydney Australia but weve made our way from down under to our brand new office in San Francisco which is now home to our US operations. This role can be based in either location. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
What youd be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.
At the moment this role is focused on :
- Being a Senior Legal Counsel with the Product and Privacy team you will take the lead on product counselling for our GenAI Supergroup and AI projects in our Design Experience group. The engineering and product managers in these groups are based mainly across Australia and Vienna.
- Youll also help support our AI governance initiatives working closely with an AI governance focussed lawyer on the team on training and resources to empower our AI teams to deliver great products safely and efficiently.
- You will help deliver impactful goals remove blockers for the business and facilitate escalations to leadership of key risks.
- Support Canvas mission to become the most trusted platform by keeping the team accountable for their goals that reduce risk. Balancing this against Canvas ambitious growth goals industry practices and our risk appetite and ensuring leadership is risk aware not risk averse.
- Provide regular training FAQS cheat sheets process documents and guardrails for AI product and engineering teams and where required US based sales teams so they can operate with low friction in their day to day work.
- Monitor and report on the AI landscape both regulatory and industry practices.
- Regularly contribute to the product AI and privacy risk registers.
- Based in San Francisco youll also be the eyes and ears for the Product and Privacy team in San Francisco where many of our most senior leaders and Canvanauts in sales and marketing are based. This will allow you to spot a broad range of legal risks and support them or bring in other team members or legal specialities to support. For this reason knowledge of the US privacy consumer protection and marketing laws will be highly regarded (e.g. CCPA CANSPAM COPPA)
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About the team
The Product and Privacy Legal team at Canva plays a crucial role in ensuring that our products comply with legal standards and privacy regulations. They number close to twenty and are based all over the world from Australia through the UK and onto the US. This role will be based in the San Francisco California and will be advising on Canvas AI products as well as supporting Canvanauts based in the US (largely in sales marketing AI and ecosystem).
Whats in it for you
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard and we do but youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Heres a taste of whats on offer :
Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.
At Canva we value fairness and we strive to provide competitive marketinformed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. The salary range for this position is $218000 to $334000. When calculating offers we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates skills and experience. For this role the prior experience acting as privacy and / or product counsel on AI products will be highly relevant.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Remote Work : Employment Type :
Fulltime
Key Skills
HR Development,Delivery,Flooring,Irrigation,ACCA,Document Management
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
Salary : $218,000 - $334,000
