Print Operations Manager
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About the Team
The Print & Partnerships group is building the best creation tool in the world for print products and unleashing the power of Canva via print and digital partnerships (Canva for Partners) with the world’s leading organizations
Growing Canva Print has become a key goal this year and our group is doubling down on doing a wide range of new product initiatives to drive the team’s growth while developing e-commerce foundations to accelerate Canva’s vision to empower the world to truly design anything, and publish anywhere.
We’ve seen incredible growth and we are rapidly scaling in this space, but there is a whole lot more to do to achieve our vision and so we are looking for a product designer to join us and help propel us towards our mission.
Role Mission
As the Print Operations Manager, you will grow, manage, and scale our Print Operations team and Print Servicer Provider Network(PSP). You’ll own the planning and execution of the Print’s overall manufacturing goals and customer experience goals that ensure a delightful product experience. You will focus on putting in place the operational, metrics, systems, and processes needed to scale. You will serve as an escalation point for issues between our PSPs, Customer Happiness, and our engineering teams. As a leader on this team, you will also identify, scope, and drive operations initiatives around quality, production times, operational excellence, and packaging to ensure the team meets our crazy big goals. You will develop partnerships with other Canva stakeholders to ensure decisions are informed with clear and direct insights through the voice of the customer. This role will manage PSP metrics from objective setting through execution, reporting, and as the champion of results.
What you'll do
- Responsible for operational data and performance review and measurement, quality, and productivity metrics
- Analyze performance metrics and communicate with Print Partners and Team for areas of success and improvement
- Identify and communicate areas of concern in operations and in product quality.
- Create and update Print Operations SOP and Process Guides
- Provide additional support as needed to support FINOps and Customer Happiness OPS
- Maintain data, reporting, and support process improvement decisions
- Assist in Product/Feature integration projects
- Document any issues and the corrections made
- Conduct new Product Development, competitor site, and product research
- Conduct onsite Print Partners visits as required
- Lead customer insights generation focusing on customers with specific products and regions.
- Design, oversee implementation, analyze, communicate, and promote the results of specific insights projects drawing on previous studies to enrich findings
- Work as a strategic partner with Customer Happiness Specialty, understand plans, develop and implement improved processes and procedures from user insights as appropriate, and also provide customer-focused input to product, operations, and marketing
- Champion insights, promote and circulate using a variety of tools such as executive summaries, presentations, and project plans
What we're looking for
- Proven leader who has played an instrumental role in building, leading, and growing a high-performing operations team.
- Experience in E-commerce physical product fulfillment in a global setting is a requirement
- Extensive experience working with a PSP network and outsourced manufacturing.
- 8+ years of progressive Print Operations experience in high-growth companies, preferably within the e-commerce manufacturing on-demand industry.
- Bias toward action; understands what it means to move fast, pivot, have a growth mindset, collaborate cross-functionally, and bring people together towards a common goal.
- Natural empathy for the customer while understanding how to balance communication-based on the priorities and capabilities of the company.
- Demonstrated experience establishing robust metrics and analysis (Quality metrics, productivity, SLAs, and KPIs) and leveraging for continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking and analytic skills (including problem-solving), as well as the ability and confidence to draw conclusions, formulate recommendations, and partner with colleagues to implement findings.
- Able to handle multiple tasks, demonstrates flexibility in readiness to prioritize and maintain a result orientation.
Working at Canva
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Whether you’re in the office, working from home or choosing your own adventure, we recognise that every single person is unique and our Canvanaut benefits aim to ensure we cater for all.
Our benefits include:
• Our hybrid work model (in-office & from home) brings our people together for 8 key days a year. The rest of the year you and your team can determine the balance that works best for you.
• Unique and flexible leave so you can recharge, give back, support others or focus on your own professional development.
• An inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey to support work-life balance.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance. This is for you to spend on whatever will support your wellbeing and development. It could be anything, from a Masterclass subscription, to an electronic stand-up desk, a pilates membership, or dinner out with a teammate. Because you know what you need to Vibe and Thrive, better than anyone.
• We have virtual and in-office wellness benefits including Canva University, Employee Assistant Programs, Fitness Classes and other benefits to support your physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
• Canva For Good program matching your not-for-profit donations and a range of sustainability and ethical initiatives to get involved in.
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