Jennie Rogerson

Jennie Rogerson is Canva’s Global Head of People where she oversees a cross-functional team from Talent Acquisition to Operations and L&D. Jennie joined Canva in 2019 as the first person in Leadership Operations for Co-founders, CEO and COO Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht.

Jennie spearheads Canva’s People mission to ‘empower teams to do the best work of their lives’ as the company experiences its biggest period of hypergrowth yet. This includes the design unicorn’s DE&I vision and strategy, hybrid work model, Customer Zero approach (with a focus on visual AI), Fewer Things Well productivity philosophy, People tech stack, and unique benefits framework (e.g. gender affirmation leave, family and domestic violence support). Jennie has also built the company’s operations teams globally.