Freelance Illustrator

**Canva’s Commitment and Mission**

At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you

Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 75 million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 2,800 peopleand the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

Join us and design your future.

**About the team**

Our culture is unlike anywhere else and our offices are designed and constantly improved to let you do great work. We mean it when we say it is important to us that we create a workplace that you love coming to.
**About you**

We take great pride in designing a product and an encompassing experience that users really love. Just check out our Twitter stream. Your colleagues at Canva — like you — enjoy being the best at their craft and coming together as a team to create something world-class. Aside from thousands of professionally designed layouts, Canva is also home to millions of illustrations and vectors for our users to use in their designs. Vectors play a big part in creating good design. Thousands of new vectors are uploaded in the Canva library every week to ensure we are regularly providing fresh and diverse content for our users. As an illustrator, your task is to ensure that these vectors are high-quality and appropriate for our users and the platform.

**What you'll do...**:

- Produce illustrations in different styles with high technique and quality while meeting user needs
- Produce illustrations in line with the brief given by the creative lead
- Curate graphic collections for current design trends

**We'd love it if you...**:

- Are experienced in illustration, animation, or graphic design
- Have a strong eye for creating illustrations with style variation
- Posses a strong understanding of the fundamentals of illustration (visual and technical style)
- Have proven ability to select highly relevant, usable illustrations with high quality and technique
- Have online portfolio with illustration samples which are beautiful, clean and elegant
- Are skilled with Adobe Illustrator (Adobe Animate is a plus)
- Have your own equipment: Computer/Laptop (with hi-res screen preferable) and high-speed internet
- Experience with Monday & Slack are beneficial

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**Working at Canva**

Our culture is unlike anywhere else and we design your #CanvaLife experience to empower you to do the best work of your life.

Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, our benefits for full-time Canvanauts include:

- Equity packages for you to truly be a part of the Canva journey. Hybrid work model (in-office & from home) coming together for 8 days a year.
- Flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development.. because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
- Virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs and Fitness & Meditation Classes.
- Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations, Force for Good leave (3 paid volunteering days) and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.
- We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion. _Please note that interviews are conducted virtually. _When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.