Education Growth Lead MENAP

Canva; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Canva seeks an Education Growth Lead for MENAP to own strategy and execution for activating and expanding Canva in schools and universities across the region. This role focuses on embedding Canva usage within institutions and expanding adoption over time.

You will build relationships with education ministries, school networks, and university bodies, delivering programs that convert early access into sustained, active usage.

Qualifications

• Experience in EdTech policy, higher education, or public sector strategy.
• Strong relationship-building with senior education leaders and ministries.
• Proven program management and GTM capability.
• Ability to design and execute cross-functional education programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the MENAP Education Growth strategy across schools and universities, starting GCC.
• Build and sustain partnerships with education ministries, school networks, and university bodies.
• Design and deliver GTM strategies for flagship education programs from concept through in-market execution.
• Coordinate with EDU product, marketing, engineering and analytics to reflect MENAP education needs.
• Collaborate with Sales and Community teams to drive adoption at scale and share insights.
• Represent Canva at regional education events and partnerships, shaping MENAP education activation.

Skills

Relationship building

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

GTM strategy

Job description

About the MENAP Team

The MENAP Group sits within Canvas International Supergroup and is responsible for growing Canvas presence across the Middle East North Africa and Pakistan. We work across sales partnerships community and growth combining deep regional market knowledge with Canvas global platform to bring great design tools to more people in more places.

Education is a key strategic investment for the MENAP team. Were building something significant here and were doing it now when the decisions about how to grow in education will shape the region for years to come.

About the Role

As the Education Growth Lead for MENAP youll own the strategy and execution for how Canva activates and grows within schools and universities across the region. This isnt a sales role. Your focus is what happens after: ensuring that the institutions Canva enters genuinely embed it use it and expand their adoption on it over time.

Youll build the relationships with education ministries school networks and university bodies that create institutional-level traction. Youll design and deliver programs like University Champions and Canva for Campus that turn early access into active sticky usage. And youll work cross-functionally with EDU product management product marketing engineering and analytics to make sure the platform and GTM motion are actually working for education users in this region.

While the initial focus is GCC youre building the playbook for all of MENAP. The patterns you establish here will influence how Canva approaches education growth across the broader region for years to come.

What youll do

• Develop and own the MENAP Education Growth strategy across school leadership and university sectors starting with GCC and expanding across the broader MENAP region.
• Build and sustain partnerships with education ministries school networks regional education authorities university bodies and student organisations including crafting formal MoUs and government partnership agreements.
• Design and deliver GTM strategies for flagship education programs including University Champions and Canva for Campus from concept through to in-market execution.
• Coordinate cross-functional work with EDU product managers product marketing engineering and analytics teams to ensure the product and GTM motion reflect the needs of MENAP education users.
• Collaborate with MENAP Sales and Community teams to share insights from schools and universities align on event presence and messaging and drive adoption at scale through complementary outreach.
• Represent Canva at regional education events conferences and partner briefings building Canvas profile as a leading education technology partner in MENAP.
• Identify and develop strategic partnerships with government education initiatives and digital transformation programmes including crafting the partnership frameworks and MoUs that underpin them.

What were looking for

As a regional lead role youre someone who can own a complex cross-functional challenge and drive it forward with both strategic clarity and hands on execution. Youre comfortable navigating ambiguity education ecosystems in MENAP are diverse often deeply relationship-driven and require patience alongside pace.

You likely bring experience in EdTech policy higher education or public sector strategy and you know how to work within institutional contexts without losing momentum. Youre a strong relationship builder who can hold meaningful conversations with senior education leaders ministry officials and student communities alike. You bring sharp program management skills you can design a GTM motion and actually ship it and youre genuinely curious about how education works across different markets and cultures in this region.

Critically you understand what this role is and isnt. Youre not here to close deals as that lies with our Education Sales. Youre here to make those deals matter: to activate build stickiness and create genuine long-term impact in the institutions Canva enters.

What youll Learn and Build

• Deep expertise in education market development across MENAP one of the most dynamic and culturally diverse regional education landscapes in the world.
• First-hand experience building institutional partnerships and government relations at a high-growth global technology company.
• Cross-functional leadership skills working across product marketing sales and community to drive outcomes you influence but dont directly own.
• The opportunity to build Canvas MENAP education activation playbook from the ground up a function with genuine regional and global visibility.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time