Senior Operations Expert - Trust & Safety

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job descriptions can feel a bit formulaic sometimes, but we promise Canva is anything but. If you're drawn to what we're building and you see yourself in this role, we'd love to hear from you.

Where and How You Can Work

Our offices are a hub for collaboration and energy — and we also believe in working where you do your best thinking. Canva offers flexibility to work in a way that suits you, whether that's remote, hybrid, or in-office.

What You'd Be Doing in This Role

Canva is used by over 150 million people every day — and keeping that platform safe is one of the most important things we do. Our Safety & Trust Operations (STOps) team sits at the centre of that mission, combining deep operational expertise with cross-functional fluency to reduce harm at scale.

As Senior Operations Expert, you'll be a key individual contributor on the STOps team — leading complex abuse investigations, supporting vendor guidance, and contributing to the AI-driven tooling and classifier training that powers our detection capabilities. This is a high-trust, high-responsibility role for someone who thrives in ambiguous environments, handles nuanced decisions with care, and genuinely cares about making the internet safer.

Please note: this role involves regular exposure to sensitive and potentially distressing content, including child safety material. Canva provides dedicated wellbeing support, structured resilience practices, and access to counselling for team members in this function.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Leading triage and investigation of escalated abuse cases across categories including deceptive content, hate and discrimination, abuse and harassment, and child safety • Acting as a point of contact for Tier 1 vendor support — quality escalations, training alignment, and policy reinforcement — and delivering policy updates and edge-case clarification to vendor partners • Participating in red-teaming exercises to surface classifier blind spots, labelling datasets, evaluating classifier output, and supporting trust model tuning • Leading or co-leading incident response, including on-call participation and post-mortems • Documenting patterns and trends from escalations to inform policy, ML, and product strategy across the wider Trust & Safety group • Representing STOps in cross-functional efforts with Content Safety, Abuse Insights, Account Integrity, and other teams