Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- Data, Project
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will lead a team of research scientists, set research strategies for AI models, and ensure research translates into usable products. You will evaluate innovative solutions, mentor your team, and represent findings in the AI community.
Your role in the team
- You will lead and grow a team of high-performing research scientists who are advancing the future of AI at scale.
- Your focus will be on setting strategic research direction, coaching others to deliver impactful scientific contributions, and ensuring the translation of research into meaningful product capabilities.
- You will champion both scientific excellence and scalable impact, bridging foundational model innovation with real-world deployment across Canva’s platform.
- This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who is passionate about cultivating talent, shaping a research vision, and partnering cross-functionally to embed cutting-edge AI into delightful user experiences.
- Coaching and mentoring a high-performing team of research scientists and machine learning engineers.
- Owning the evaluation strategy - Design and run robust evaluation frameworks—quality, safety, red-teaming, competitive benchmarking—to guarantee enterprise readiness and user delight at scale.
- Setting research strategy in alignment with Canva’s AI and product goals.
- Guiding technical direction across foundational model development, experimentation, and evaluation.
- Partnering cross-functionally to ensure research translates into product impact.
- Representing Canva in the global AI community through publications, talks, or open-source contributions.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Have led research or applied science teams, with a strong track record of coaching and impact.
- Possess deep, hands-on expertise in training and evaluating generative models (Diffusion, GANs, VAEs, LLMs).
- Excel at creating data-driven evaluation methodologies, turning user analytics into clear, actionable insights.
- Bring strategic thinking and scientific rigour to project direction and problem solving.
- Thrive in collaborative environments and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Stay current with research trends and are energised by continuous learning.
Experience
- Possess expert knowledge and experience with GANs, Diffusion Models, VAEs, and Autoregressive Models.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
- 🤫Relaxation Rooms
- ⚽️Tabletop Soccer, etc.
- 🎮Gaming Room
- 🧠Mental Health Care
- 🚲Bicycle Parking Space
- 🎳Team Events
- 🙂Health Care Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
- 🕺No Dresscode
- 🙅♂️No All-In Contracts
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
Food & Drink
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Job Locations
Location Vienna
Ungargasse 37
1030 Wien
Austria
Topics that you deal with on the job
This is your employer
Canva Austria GmbH.
Wien
By making complicated tech simple, we strive to enable individuals and businesses of all sizes to benefit from the recent advances in Visual AI. Our tools simplify and accelerate workflows, foster creativity, and enable others to create new products.
Description
- Company Size
- 50-249 Employees
- Founding year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Research Lead
- Location
- Vienna
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
