Education Sales Lead (MENA/Arabic)

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates; the role focuses on Paris and supports flexible, remote-friendly work.

Company

Canva is a design platform that provides creative and education-focused tools for schools, teachers, and students.

What you will do

• Own the strategy, prospecting, planning, onboarding, execution, and results for identified school districts.
• Build relationships with education administrators, ministry stakeholders, school leaders, teachers, and instructional technology specialists.
• Guide education customers through Canva adoption, implementation, teacher development, and curriculum integration.
• Identify new high-value districts, source strategic leads, and close education software deals.
• Analyze user lifecycle data, usage patterns, and emerging trends to improve sales and account-management strategies.
• Drive retention, engagement, and successful educational outcomes in collaboration with product, marketing, sales, success, and community teams.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of the K-12 education market and classroom productivity solutions.
• Experience selling or driving adoption of education software, with practical teaching or instructional technology experience.
• Understanding of system-wide school technology deployments and educator needs.
• Strong business planning, project execution, collaboration, and remote-working skills.
• Experience in community management and social media practices for education audiences.
• Arabic-speaking capability is required for the MENA-focused role.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hours under a 12-month contractor engagement.
• Flexible, remote-friendly ways of working with virtual contractor-accreditation meetings.
• Collaboration with a mission-driven Education Engagement team focused on improving classroom learning.
• Cross-functional work with product, marketing, customer success, sales, and education communities.
• Reasonable adjustments are available during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Hiring process

• Contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.
• Candidates should provide their pronouns and identify any reasonable adjustments needed during the interview process.