About the role
Description Join
the team redefining how the world experiences design Hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte! Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point. Where and How You Can Work This role is based in Istanbul, with a hybrid working arrangement. Our Istanbul hub is a place for collaboration and creative energy and we want you close enough to the Turkish market to genuinely feel it. You'll have the flexibility to work in a way that suits you, with meaningful time in the office to connect with
the team.
About
the Role As the Creative Strategist for Turkiye, you'll be the creative performance engine behind Canva's paid and organic marketing in the region - working at the intersection of data, storytelling, and cultural nuance to drive real user growth. This is a hands-on, insight-led role where local knowledge, analytical curiosity, and creative excellence drive outcomes. You won't manage a direct team, but you'll have real influence — over creative direction, agency partners, and the cross-functional teams who help bring ideas to life.
What You'll Do Lead the creative flywheel — own the full creative cycle (research, briefing, production, editing, and analysis), driving sprint cycles with regional and global teams and developing testable ideas grounded in user insights Analyse and optimise performance — dig into dashboards to spot winners, diagnose underperformance, and design creative tests, lift studies, and attribution experiments in close partnership with analytics teams Lead organic and paid social creative strategy — define what high-performing creative looks like for Turkish audiences across Meta, TikTok, Instagram, and emerging platforms, building content systems informed by performance data and local cultural moments Own UGC, localisation, and market insight — brief and review creator content to ensure it's on-brand and platform-optimised, and bring genuine cultural fluency to every project Work with in-house and agency teams — bridge external creative partners and internal stakeholders, working with media buyers, data science, the Europe Growth Marketing Lead, and agency partners across Brand, Product Growth, and Analytics Support conversion across the funnel — contribute to CRO initiatives to make acquisition journeys seamless, engaging, and high-converting
