Senior Operations Expert - Trust & Safety

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Recruitment Type: Permanent

About the Position

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.

Responsibilities

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.

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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or 3+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, abuse operations, or fraud investigation
• Experience or genuine curiosity around AI readiness - data labelling, prompt testing, classifier feedback, or red-teaming
• Ability to handle emotionally challenging content while maintaining strong self-care practices and personal resilience
• Effective collaboration across Policy, Product, Engineering, and Legal
• Flexibility to participate in an on-call rotation, which may include 24/7 coverage and holiday shifts based on operational needs

About the Team

STOps is Canva's frontline safety operations function - the team responsible for investigating abuse, enforcing policy, and building the operational foundation that keeps Canva safe for everyone. We work closely with Content Safety, Abuse Insights, Account Integrity, and our AI and product teams. It's meaningful, challenging work, and we take care of each other while we do it.

We Offer

• Equity packages - so you share in Canva's success
• 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 and supports you personally

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.