Managers must manage craft, not just people

There should be no people managers in the entire company. And when I say people managers, meaning your only responsibility is people, not the work or not the domain.

All of our people leaders are player coaches in that they still do the end work themselves and they can mentor and coach those around them. This analogy came from, or this mindset came from, it's something I borrowed from just the sports world in general because there's a lot of sports that just move incredibly fast.

We don't really have managers, but everyone at Canva has a coach. They're constantly working with you to look at your skills, but also when it might be time to move on to the next level.

I think you want to be pretty PM light as an organization just in general. Too many PMs causes problems. We'll fill the world with decks and ideas versus execution.