AI & Automation Impact Lead, Canva

Sean Gillespie is Canva’s AI & Automation Impact Lead, setting the strategic direction for how AI and automation take hold across the business. He drives adoption of tooling across Canva’s knowledge workers, and leads the effort to unify the company’s general use, product and engineering AI teams into a single, coherent strategy for how Canva uses emerging technology internally.

Sean joined Canva in 2021, building the company’s early AI practice within marketing before moving into his current cross-company role. Before Canva, he spent a decade in marketing technology within WPP’s global network of agencies, working with global brands including Apple, Ticketmaster, Nestlé, and Vodafone across North American and APAC offices.