SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Canva is seeking a Senior Paid Search Manager to own a portfolio of Search accounts across assigned markets, with full accountability for performance, campaign structure, and budget decisions. You'll be the go-to Search expert for your markets, leading stakeholder communications and partnering with regional and cross-functional teams to educate them on Search's contribution to their market.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning a portfolio of Search accounts (SEM, PMax/Shopping, GAC, ASA, ChatGPT Ads) with full accountability for performance and incrementality-informed budget decisions
- Serving as the Search expert for assigned markets, leading stakeholder communications and educating regional teams on Search mechanics and contribution
- Driving global strategy and approach in key strategic focus areas
- Using AI as a default workflow accelerant to propose, build, and maintain shared automation and process improvements
- Supporting new market launches and major platform changes affecting the team's approach
- Partnering with measurement/data and AdTech teams on measurement and experimentation plans
- Staying ahead of platform and industry changes, including how AI is reshaping search, and adjusting strategy proactively
You'll report to the Search Lead and work within Canva's Performance Marketing Centre of Excellence, which sets global strategy for paid channels including Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Programmatic, and Search. The Search team is small and technical, with points of contact covering North America, Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. You'll work with genuine autonomy, build relationships across regions without formal authority, and operate in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.
Canva's hybrid working model is based in Sydney, with flexibility to work remotely and come together on campus for meaningful collaboration. The role involves working across timezones with a globally distributed team, including some evening calls for EMEA.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven experience running Search & Shopping accounts at genuine multi-market scale with meaningful budget (in-house or agency-side)
- Hands-on expertise with Google Ads and Bing Ads, plus a bid management platform like SA360 or equivalent
- Demonstrated use of AI tools to speed up reporting, analysis, testing, and workflow automation
- Natural curiosity for platform mechanics, auction dynamics, and bidding algorithms, not just campaign management
- Ability to dive deep into numbers to spot anomalies and diagnose root causes
- High attention to detail on account hygiene, structure, measurement setup, and reporting
- Ability to prioritize across multiple markets and workstreams simultaneously
- Strong communication skills with regional stakeholders without deep Search expertise; ability to translate technical mechanics into plain language
- Proven ability to build relationships across regional teams without formal authority
- Comfort working across timezones with globally distributed teams
- Thrives in fast-paced, high-ownership, ambiguous environments
- Proactive by default, transparent about capacity and blockers, open to direct feedback, and moves at pace
