Please noteThis a hybrid role and you will be required to go into our Madrid office 2-3 days per week.12 month contract with full time hoursYou will be paid a day rateJoin the team empowering the world to designHey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, こんにちは, 你好, hallo, नमस्ते, 안녕하세요, hola, salut! At Canva, our mission is to empower the world to design—and we're growing fast across the globe. With over 250 million monthly active users in over 190 countries, we're on a mission to make Canva the most loved brand in the world.
To support this ambition, we're building a world‐class marketing team that's deeply local, highly creative, and relentlessly performance‐focused. We're looking for a Motion Designer & Video Editor to set the craft bar inside our creative pod in Spain. As the Motion Designer & Video Editor for Spain, you'll be making the best social‐first motion content in the world.
Learn from how it actually lands in partnership with creative strategists and media experts to come back more informed and produce better work next week. You'll sit inside the local growth creative pod alongside our Brand Designer, Copy Writer and Creative Operations Manager. We're looking for someone who wants to be world‐class at performance creative across social, YouTube and contribute to a broader high performance marketing team.
About the roleLead on motion, make the product feel like magicYou'll animate Canva's design and brand assets into work that demonstrates what the product does and why it matters. Make work that performs and learn from the data every weekYou'll work inside sprint cycles where every piece you ship gets measured. Set the bar for performance creative in Spain.
You give us craft, shipping our internal concepts, remixing from a growing content library,
and setting the standard for what's possible across both short‐form social and YouTube ads. Build world‐class YouTube assetsYouTube isn't an afterthought or a reformat of your TikTok cut. You'll treat it as its own craft, pacing, storytelling, polish, retention curves and ship work that stands up against the best paid creative on the platform.
You know the difference between a YouTube ad that earns its 30 seconds and one that gets skipped. Recut creator content with a feel for the platformYou'll take raw creator and UGC footage and turn it into native‐feeling work across Meta, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and beyond. Design motion assets across performance and brandFlex between always‐on performance creative and bigger brand moments, across short‐form social and longer YouTube formats.
You can dial the polish up for a hero piece or the speed up for a weekly sprint, and you don't lose taste in either direction. Support the broader marketing teamBe a versátil craft resource for lifecycle, events, partnerships and brand campaigns when they need it. You're probably a match if you have:3–5 years of motion design experience with a portfolio that shows real shipped work across Meta, TikTok and YouTube.
Strong fluency in After Effects or Cavalry. Solid video editing in CapCut, Canva Video and/or Premiere Pro. You're not aiming to be a world‐class editor, but you're reliably good and you understand the social‐first cut.
A real interest in social.
Experience editing creator content into performance‐tuned social work, you know how to find the hook in raw footage. Spanish and good English, with a feel for cultural resonance in local creative work. About the teamYou'll be part of a highly collaborative, fast‐moving, and passionate marketing team that blends creativity and data to make magic happen. In this role, you'll help Canva show up at its best in Spain and fuel growth by bringing performance and creativity together in every campaign.
📌 Performance Marketing Motion Designer / Video Editor - Spain (12 month contract) (Madrid)
🏢 Canva
📍 Madrid