Canva’s head of design departs a week after Canva AI 2.0 release
Make us a preferred source
Make us a preferred source on Google
The news: Andrew Green, head of design at Canva, has announced his departure less than a week after Canva’s biggest product launch to date — Canva AI 2.0, unveiled ahead of the company’s flagship Canva Create event in Los Angeles.
The context: Green joined Canva in October 2018 and led the design team through a period of rapid expansion, during which the company grew to more than 250 million monthly active users, over 31 million paying subscribers, and USD4 billion ($5.6 billion) in annualised revenue.
His exit coincides with, what co-founder Cliff Obrecht described as, an identity transformation — a two-year rebuild that repositioned Canva from “a design platform with AI tools” to “an AI platform with design tools”.
Prior to Canva, Green spent 2.5 years at SEEK, including as head of product management in Hong Kong and head of design. He also worked in freelance product design and product management roles.
Green said he plans to focus on full-time parenting, personal creative projects and maintaining his advisory relationship with the company.
What they said: “After a lot of reflection, I’ve decided the time is right to wrap up my chapter at Canva. Create was my last as a fully-fledged Canvanaut,” Green said, describing the launch as “our most important release ever”.
On what’s next: “For now, I’m leaning into being a full-time dad, logging more kms into the legs, and tinkering on a few creative projects that have been sitting on the back burner. I’ll also be staying close to Canva as an adviser — this place doesn’t leave you easily, nor would I want it to.”
The source: Linkedin
