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Canva

Content Strategist, Paris (12 Month Contract)

Hybrid

Paris, France

Freelance

12-10-2025

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Communication Leadership Creativity Canva Decision-making Research Marketing

Job Specifications

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, , hallo, vitejte!

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.

Where And How You Can Work

Alongside our global campuses, we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. While we support flexible, remote-friendly ways of working, for this role we're focusing on Paris so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

This role is a 12-month engagement, working full-time hours per week.

What You'd Be Doing In This Role

As the Content Strategist for France, you'll be the creative performance engine behind Canva's paid marketing in the region. You'll be responsible for audience insight, creative analysis, sprint leadership, and directing a high-performing creative strategy - working at the intersection of data, storytelling, and cultural nuance.

Your role is to work with channel experts to ensure that our creative system is always improving and driving growth. You understand the market and our customers, dive deep into the tools and lead our team's execution through the creative strategy flywheel with the broader team.

This is a hands-on, insight-led role where local knowledge, analytical curiosity, and creative excellence drive outcomes.

You can learn more about our brand here: Canva Brand | Home

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

Analysing dashboards to spot winning creatives, diagnose underperformance, and feed back actionable insights to guide new concepts and iterations
Understanding key marketing channels and how media buying influences creative success
Leading the full creative cycle. Research, briefing, production, editing, and analysis - driving sprint cycles with regional/global teams
Develop testable ideas grounded in user insights and market context, collaborating closely with producers, writers, and editors
You'll collaborate with media buyers, the Europe Growth Marketing Lead, data scientists, creatives, and key marketing stakeholders
You'll apply cultural insight and market nuance to every project, spotting regional trends, behaviours, and visual cues that shape effective storytelling
Support CRO initiatives to make acquisition journeys seamless, engaging, and high-converting
Brief and review creator content to ensure it's on-brand, relevant, and optimised--helping scale high-performing UGC locally

You're probably a match if

You have extensive experience working in growth marketing teams with a focus on creative strategy.
Experience working across performance-driven creative, with a deep understanding of ad metrics, audience segmentation, and platform best practices
Confidence using data tools and performance dashboards to inform decision-making and optimise creative at scale
Excellent communication skills in French and English, with the ability to spot tone, nuance, and resonance in creative work. Additional languages are viewed favourably.
Strong experience in briefing, reviewing, and iterating creative in cross-functional sprints
A growth mindset. You're analytical, curious, and unafraid to push for better

About The Team

You'll be part of a highly collaborative, fast-moving, and passionate marketing team that blends creativity and data to make magic happen. In this role, you'll help Canva show up at its best in France--fueling growth by bringing performance and creativity together in every campaign.

Other Stuff To Know

We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience, skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

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!

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

About the Company

We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big ... Know more