Community Manager, Germany (12-month Contract)

Canva; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 45.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading design platform is looking for a Community Manager for Germany, focused on building and supporting the local Creator Community. In this role, you will foster growth and engagement, develop community strategies, and collaborate with multiple teams to promote creator and educator success. Ideal candidates will have experience in community management, strong communication skills in German and English, and a passion for fostering creative talent. This is a full-time contract role based in Berlin, with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifikationen

• Track record of building and scaling creative communities.
• Hands-on experience with community management platforms.
• Strong event planning and public speaking skills.

Aufgaben

• Build and manage the Creator and Education community in Germany.
• Act as a relationship builder offering empathetic support.
• Define and execute the community strategy aligning with product priorities.

Kenntnisse

English

User Interface

Communication

Content Writing

Social Media Management

Public Speaking

Analytics

Jobbeschreibung

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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 were focusing on Berlin so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

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

About the role

As Canvas Community Manager for Germany youll primarily focus on the Creator Community - onboarding inspiring and supporting local designers as they produce high-quality culturally relevant content - while also having the opportunity to support Canvas Education Community to grow teacher engagement and awareness where needed.

Youll connect the dots between creative talent local culture and Canvas tools to drive advocacy creativity and community impact. Community has always been at the heart of Canva fueling all the strong brand loyalty weve built over the years.

What youll be doing

• Build and manage the Canvas Creator and Education community in Germany fostering growth advocacy engagement and a sense of belonging among contributors.
• Act as a relationship-builder offering empathetic support detailed guidance and proactive engagement to strengthen creator and educator trust and retention.
• Define and execute the Germany community strategy aligning with product priorities and cultural moments to drive local impact.
• Identify and nurture creative talent ensuring creator outputs align with visual trends and Canvas quality standards.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with content marketing SEO education sales and product teams to design and deliver impactful initiatives and campaigns.
• Craft clear and inclusive communications that inspire inform and engage creators and educators across multiple channels.
• Create strong feedback loops providing structured actionable feedback to help creators optimize their content and continuously improve over time.
• Use data and insights to measure community health track content performance and optimize programs for impact.

Youre probably a match if

• You have a track record of building and scaling thriving creative or contributor communities.
• You have hands‑on experience with community management platforms (e.g. Discord Facebook Groups Circle or similar).
• You have deep knowledge of the German creative education and cultural landscape with the ability to identify trends and nuture creators to produce culturally relevant content.
• You have strong event planning facilitation and public speaking skills with a knack for creating inspiring activations online and offline.
• You are a creative thinker with familiarity in content creation (design short‑form video social media campaigns) and a strong grasp of visual and community trends.
• You have an analytical mindset with the ability to turn creator and content performance data into actionable insights that improve program outcomes.
• You are a collaborative operator experienced in working cross‑functionally with SEO marketing and content teams to align on strategy and drive impact.
• You are adaptable and proactive skilled at balancing long‑term program building with fast‑paced short‑term campaign execution.
• You have the ability to balance global strategy and local execution.
• You are adept at developing and maintaining relationships with partners as well as collaborating with government organizations and agencies.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English with an empathetic and inclusive tone.

Other stuff to know

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Please note that contractor‑accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above – we still want to hear from you!

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Remote Work: Yes

Employment Type: Contract

Key Skills

• English
• User Interface
• Communication
• Content Writing
• Online
• Twitter
• Internet
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Instagram
• Management skills
• Digital speech
• Speaking skills
• Analytics
• Writing Skills

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1