Platform Product Manager - Cost Consumptions
As a Platform Product Manager - Cost Consumptions at Canva, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the company's scalability and long-term sustainability. This position focuses on optimizing the value delivered to users by aligning product offerings with resource commitments, ensuring efficient and effective use of resources. You will collaborate closely with product managers and engineering leaders to understand how various product features scale with usage, aiming to maximize value for both users and the company.
In this role, your key responsibilities include partnering with product, engineering, and finance teams to develop a deep understanding of Canva's hosting considerations and the factors influencing them at scale. You will work with product leaders across planning cycles to implement optimization strategies that deliver sustainable cost savings. Additionally, you will own the cross-company roadmap for usage-based cost optimization across Canva's key product areas and build sustainable practices that help product managers and leaders model the impact of proposed features. Communicating progress, challenges, and achievements to stakeholders at all levels of the organization is also a critical aspect of this role.
The ideal candidate possesses a strong blend of product sense and technical acumen to understand how product usage translates to product architecture. A strong commercial sense is essential to translate product usage into business, revenue, and hosting cost impacts. Strategic thinking with a track record of executing large-scale projects successfully across R&D and General & Administrative functions is highly valued. Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment is preferred. Excellent communication and collaboration skills are necessary to work effectively with both technical and non-technical teams, translating complex technical concepts into clear outcomes and implications for senior leaders. Bonus experience includes FinOps experience in a high-growth tech company.
Canva offers a range of benefits to support employees' success both in and outside of work. These include equity packages, an inclusive parental leave policy supporting all parents and carers, an annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more. Flexible leave options empower employees to be a force for good, take time to recharge, and support personal needs.
Canva's flagship campus is in Sydney, with additional campuses in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. The company trusts its employees to choose the balance that empowers them and their teams to achieve their goals, offering flexibility in where and how they work.