Senior Legal Counsel - Product & Privacy

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Collingwood is home to our Melbourne campus - a vibrant, creative hub for connection and impactful work. While Sydney is home to our HQ, Melbourne brings its own unique vibe, with local artwork, lush greenery, and thoughtfully designed spaces to help you collaborate, focus, and feel part of a welcoming community.

This role is based in Melbourne, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most.

About the Role

Canva is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel for our Product and Privacy team; that supports our product and engineering teams to continually and rapidly evolve Canva AI and how it pulls into an ecosystem of tools whilst making them risk aware of applicable privacy, IP, AI, online safety, marketing, accessibility, platform and consumer laws. You will need to have a solid foundation in global laws in these areas and an enthusiasm for emerging and generative AI technologies.

This role is a unique opportunity to join the exciting Product and Privacy function for Canva in Australia and work at the intersection of AI, product counselling, and legal strategy and governance. Your colleagues will be all over the world meaning comfort with time zones is a must!

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role Is focused on

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.

You're probably a match if

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.