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Canva

Senior Legal Counsel – Product & Privacy

Canva

Senior Legal Counsel for Product and Privacy supporting Canva's engineering teams. Advising on AI, privacy, and legal strategies in a collaborative environment.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • Sydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Identify and advise on legal issues in key areas including privacy, data protection, intellectual property, marketing, online safety, AI regulation, platform, competition, and consumer laws
  • Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, advising on product development (including agentic and generative AI products), go-to-market strategy, partnership terms, consumer-facing terms and risk mitigation
  • Contribute to the development and operationalization of company-wide AI policies, processes and legal frameworks
  • Draft and maintain legal playbooks and internal guidance related to AI tools and technologies
  • Collaborate closely with privacy, IP, security, product and engineering teams
  • Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review to enable the launch of new products
  • Participate in the review and coordination of potential privacy or data security incidents (including on call), including investigations, notifications, and other resolution efforts
  • Stay up to date with global AI and privacy regulations and relevant industry standards

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Legally qualified (AUS/NZ, UK, EU or US practising certificate)
  • 10+ years practicing law with some experience in-house, 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
  • You have real opinions on things like generative and agentic AI, and the privacy, IP, safety and regulatory considerations that come with them
  • You’re comfortable collaborating with team members in other time zones
  • You are a collaborative, pragmatic, business-minded lawyer who wants to help the Canva group grow and be a part of its exciting journey
  • You bring clarity to complexity and simplify compliance without compromising standards
  • You love collaborating with engineers, PMs, and marketers — and thrive in fast-moving environments
  • You’re risk aware, not risk adverse
  • You’re creative, curious, and motivated by meaningful work

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
  • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
  • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge, study, and support you personally

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Hard Skills & Tools
Legal Issue IdentificationDrafting Legal PlaybooksRisk Mitigation StrategiesLegal Review ProcessesPrivacy Incident Coordination
Soft Skills
CollaborativePragmaticBusiness-MindedCreativeCurious
Certifications
Practising Certificate (AUS/NZ, UK, EU, US)