CLARENCE VILLANUEVA.

Hello Canva,

I’m Clarence, a Senior Creative who builds visual systems, integrated campaigns and branded creative that scale across agency and in-house teams. Most recently I worked in monday.com’s global Brand & Events team, adapting a global brand for APJ and building templates and assets regional teams could reuse.

I’m applying for Canva’s Content team because it’s the work I do best and the direction I want to keep growing in: hands-on craft, setting creative direction, and building the systems that let content scale. I want to do that with AI in the workflow and data showing what people actually need.

( Experiences )

2026

Building brands across
markets and touchpoints

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monday.com – Senior Creative

As the first Senior Creative in monday.com’s APJ region, working between the global Brand team and regional Sales & Marketing. My role was to keep the brand consistent while making the work feel right for each market, across campaigns, events and everyday marketing. I built templates and systems so regional teams could ship faster without the quality dropping and guided external partners in ensuring brand consistency across different brand touchpoints and formats.

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monday.com – Senior Creative

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monday.com – Senior Creative

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Opus Agency – Art Director

I spent over four years at Opus, rising to Art Director on global tech accounts including AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce and Zendesk. I led creative from concept to delivery across campaigns and brand experiences, turning established global identities into digital, environmental and interactive work. I also led designers, motion creatives and production teams, giving the feedback that kept the work consistent from first idea to final build.

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Opus Agency – Art Director

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Opus Agency – Art Director

( What I Bring )

2026

Thinking in systems

I think past the single asset to how an idea holds up across formats, teams and markets. I build consistency into the process with templates, repeatable systems and clearer workflows, so creative moves faster without dropping in quality.

Thinking in systems

Concept to delivery

Years of taking ideas from early concept through to production have given me a strong understanding of feasibility, timelines and how creative needs to adapt across different channels and formats. I'm comfortable owning work from initial exploration through to hands-on execution, and equally comfortable directing other designers and external partners to maintain a consistent creative standard.

Concept to delivery

Data-informed creative decisions

I've always considered audience behaviour, campaign performance and stakeholder feedback when making creative decisions. I'm currently developing my creative strategy skills more formally, with a particular interest in using data, search behaviour and market insights to identify creative opportunities and shape stronger briefs before execution begins.

Data-informed creative decisions

AI is part of my process

I use AI to test creative directions and get ideas in front of people quickly, then rely on design judgement and craft to decide what’s good. At monday.com, I noticed creative requests were hard to track across the team. I talked to stakeholders and looked at how work was actually coming in to understand what each group needed, then vibe-coded a creative request booking system to fix it. It gave everyone one view of requests, owners and deadlines, so multiple studios could manage their workload, and the wider Brand team went on to adopt it.

AI is part of my process

years in multidisciplinary design

Brand, campaigns, digital, experiential and visual systems, in agency and in-house teams.

years in multidisciplinary design

Brand, campaigns, digital, experiential and visual systems, in agency and in-house teams.

years in multidisciplinary design

Brand, campaigns, digital, experiential and visual systems, in agency and in-house teams.

global tech brands

monday.com, AWS, Google Cloud, Nearmap, Zendesk, Conga, ADP, Salesforce, Crayon

global tech brands

monday.com, AWS, Google Cloud, Nearmap, Zendesk, Conga, ADP, Salesforce, Crayon

global tech brands

monday.com, AWS, Google Cloud, Nearmap, Zendesk, Conga, ADP, Salesforce, Crayon

APJ markets localised

Translated global creative direction for audiences and campaigns across Australia, Singapore, the Philippines and broader regional work.

APJ markets localised

Translated global creative direction for audiences and campaigns across Australia, Singapore, the Philippines and broader regional work.

APJ markets localised

Translated global creative direction for audiences and campaigns across Australia, Singapore, the Philippines and broader regional work.

years of agency experience

Building design systems and leading creative and production teams on global tech accounts.

years of agency experience

Building design systems and leading creative and production teams on global tech accounts.

years of agency experience

Building design systems and leading creative and production teams on global tech accounts.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you
for your time.

As Canva continues to scale its content across markets and audiences, I’d be excited to contribute to a visual content system that feels globally consistent while remaining relevant, useful and culturally considered at a local level.

While I'm based in Sydney 🐨 I enjoy collaborating as part of global, multidisciplinary teams 🌏. I'm especially excited by the opportunity to combine strong graphic craft, creative direction, scalable systems and AI-assisted workflows to help Canva identify and create content that people genuinely want to use!

I'd love the opportunity to talk further about the role and how I could contribute to the team.

See my work