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GTM Strategy & Operations Lead, Americas

Canva · San Francisco, US · On-site

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About Canva

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design. Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. Backed by Bessemer, General Catalyst and 500 Global.

About the role

As the strategic business partner to the Head of AMER Sales, you’ll help shape how Canva grows across the Americas. You’ll connect commercial strategy with disciplined execution, bringing the insight, planning, and cross-functional alignment needed to help the business scale. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone who can move comfortably between strategy and detail, challenge assumptions, and help Sales leaders make faster, better-informed decisions.

What they're looking for

  • Experience: 7+ years in Sales Strategy, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, or GTM Strategy, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment
  • Leadership partnership: Proven ability to act as a strategic thought partner to senior Sales or Revenue leaders and translate insights into action
  • Planning and commercial design: Experience with annual planning, territory and capacity planning, segmentation, account coverage, productivity modeling, and investment cases
  • Forecasting and performance management: Deep experience with forecasting, pipeline health, scenario modeling, conversion, coverage, capacity, and attainment
  • Analytics: Exceptional analytical and modeling skills, with advanced Excel/Google Sheets capabilities, SQL is required
  • Business judgment: Strong instincts for balancing operational rigor, governance, and speed, with the ability to distinguish symptoms from root causes
More about this role

Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!

Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.

Our flagship office is in Sydney, Australia, but we've made our way from down under, to a hub in San Francisco, which is now home to our US operations. We offer flexibility in how and where you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals. This is a hybrid role in San Francisco, so you must be able to commute to our office 1-2 times a week.

This role sits within Canva’s GTM Operations team, which partners with Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, Finance, Revenue Systems, and Data to build the operating system behind Canva’s B2B growth.

You’ll report to the Head of GTM Operations and work closely with the Head of AMER Sales and the wider global GTM Operations team. We are a practical, high-impact team that combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, helping Revenue leaders make better decisions, remove friction, and scale the business with clarity and discipline.

As the strategic business partner...

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