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Salary: USD 187,000 - 280,000 / annual
Canva is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join its Product and Privacy team, supporting product and engineering teams as they develop and scale Canva AI and related tools. This role sits at the intersection of AI, product counseling, and legal strategy, requiring deep expertise in global privacy, IP, AI regulation, and consumer protection laws.
Key responsibilities include:
- Identifying and advising on legal issues spanning privacy, data protection, intellectual property, marketing, online safety, AI regulation, platform law, competition, and consumer protection
- Building strong stakeholder relationships and advising on product development (including generative and agentic AI), go-to-market strategy, partnership terms, and risk mitigation
- Contributing to the development and operationalization of company-wide AI policies, processes, and legal frameworks
- Drafting and maintaining legal playbooks and internal guidance for AI tools and technologies
- Collaborating with privacy, IP, security, product, and engineering teams
- Building scalable processes for legal review to enable new product launches
- Participating in privacy and data security incident response (including on-call duties), including investigations, notifications, and resolution
- Staying current with global AI and privacy regulations and industry standards
The role is based in San Francisco with flexibility in how and where you work. You will collaborate with colleagues across time zones globally, with Canva's flagship office in Sydney, Australia.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Legally qualified with an active practicing certificate (AUS/NZ, UK, EU, or US)
- 10+ years of law practice with some in-house experience, preferably in a technology company
- Familiarity with key global digital, AI, privacy, consumer, and online safety laws and regulations (e.g., EU AI Act, GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, Digital Services Act, Online Safety Act(s))
- Deep understanding of modern AI technology and products, with informed perspectives on generative and agentic AI and their privacy, IP, safety, and regulatory implications
- Comfort collaborating with team members across time zones
- Collaborative, pragmatic, business-minded approach to legal counsel
- Ability to bring clarity to complexity and simplify compliance without compromising standards
- Enthusiasm for collaborating with engineers, product managers, and marketers in fast-moving environments
- Risk-aware mindset (not risk-averse)
- Creative, curious, and motivated by meaningful work
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- AI Governance Professional or Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) certifications; willingness to obtain CIPP certification within 6 months of joining is a must
- Knowledge of Canva
- High comfort level with technology and AI experimentation
- Hands-on experience advising rapidly growing technology companies on privacy and product-related regulatory requirements
