Head of Commercial Legal
Core
Lead a global Commercial Legal team to structure, negotiate, and manage customer, partner, and supplier agreements, enabling Canva's scalable growth through strategic legal and operational guidance.
Role type
Senior leadership commercial legal head (global)
Builds
Scalable commercial legal processes, playbooks, templates, and ways of working for a global design platform
Domain
Technology / SaaS / Design
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Commercial contract negotiation, strategic business partnering, team leadership and coaching, risk management, process design and scaling, cross-functional collaboration, market and legal trend analysis
Preferred skills
Managing global teams across timezones, advising on technology transactions, fluency and active use of AI tools in legal workflows
Technologies
AI tools for legal workflows
Responsibilities
Lead and coach a high-performing global Commercial Legal team; Set the vision and strategy for Commercial Legal; Provide strategic guidance to leadership on commercial matters; Partner with Sales, Procurement, Finance, and Product teams; Design scalable legal processes and templates; Manage Commercial Legal budgets and outside counsel engagement; Monitor market developments and legal trends
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership mandate