# Design Lead, South Korea (24-month contract)

**Company**: Canva
**Location**: Seoul
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

As a Design Lead in South Korea, you will develop a compelling creative vision that delivers and executes against the Country Content Strategy Lead and Country Manager's strategic priorities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Creative Direction: Develop and execute a creative vision that aligns with the country's content strategy, collaborating with local Marketing, SEO, and Community teams.

- Content Creation & Curation: Oversee the creation of content, including design kits, campaign documents, and in-house production, ensuring cultural relevance and adherence to brand guidelines.

- Market Understanding & Cultural Insights: Build and maintain a deep knowledge of local culture, consumer behavior, and design trends to inform content direction and strategy.

- Content Performance Monitoring & Analysis: Conduct template and element audits, perform content performance and gap analysis, and leverage data to shape creative direction.

- Partnership & Stakeholder Management: Partner with Country Content Strategy Lead, local SEO, Marketing, and Country Managers to align on creative goals and content needs.

- Competitive Analysis: Monitor competitor activity and creative trends across the region to identify new opportunities and maintain strategic edge.

- Project Management: Monitor project execution, mitigate risks, and escalate challenges when necessary to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes.

- Freelance & Creator Management: Oversee local freelance designers, manage recruitment, briefing, output review, and development.

- Reporting & Communication: Report on the performance and ROI of creative campaigns, using analytics to guide and improve future content plans and outputs.

- Feedback & Quality Assurance: Provide timely feedback and approvals across creative workstreams, maintaining alignment with both business goals and creative standards.

- Team Building & Culture: Contribute to and foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performing regional creative team culture.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Design, Marketing, Communications, or a related field

- Proven experience in creative leadership roles, ideally with international, regional, or market-level remit

- Strong portfolio showcasing exceptional design work and content campaigns that reflect cultural resonance and local user needs

- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (SEO, Growth, Marketing, Product)

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills

- Results-focused mindset, balancing creative innovation with business and user goals

## Skills

### Required
- Design
- Marketing
- Communications
- Content Strategy
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Data Analysis
- AI Adoption

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