Staff Data Scientist - Canva Growth
Staff Data Scientist - Canva Growth
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Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey gday mabuhay kia ora hallo vtejte!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and coworking spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if youre near one) at home or a bit of both its up to you.
What youd be doing in this role
As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.
In this position youll play a critical role in shaping the technical roadmap for our Growth Supergroup by leading the development of new capabilities that support scalable growth. We need someone who can demonstrate strong collaboration skills and act as a key partner in advancing Canvas AIdriven data strategy. Youll work with cuttingedge technologies like GraphDBs Snowflake and AIpowered systems ensuring that we are at the forefront of data science and innovation.
You wont just be responding to data requests; youll be driving proactive change. This role is for a technical guru who can identify and implement largescale AIdriven solutions optimize data infrastructure and leverage automation for longterm growth. Youll partner closely with leadership across data product and machine learning teams to build systems that ensure efficiency scalability and the adoption of new technologies.
At The Moment This Role Is Focused On
This role will rely on your particular strengths and experience in fleshing out new capabilities communicating closely with stakeholders and maintaining a highly proactive attitude. Specific examples of responsibilities are outlined below:
- Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor Growth analytics engineers helping to elevate technical skills across the team while driving platformlevel innovations.
- New Capability Development: Design and test new capabilities exploring the value and how we could scale across Canva. Drive the adoption of new technologies like GraphDBs and AIenhanced data models.
- AI Integration: Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers to develop a sustainable and scalable personalization framework. Help integrate AIdriven capabilities such as OpenAI to streamline experiment reporting and impact analysis.
- Proactive ProblemSolving: Act as a technical SWAT team jumping into the most critical and complex data problems that require immediate solutions but lack existing capacity within the embedded teams.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Work closely with data leadership and crossfunctional teams to identify opportunities for innovation and implement technical solutions that align with business goals.
Youre probably a match if
- You have Advanced SQL Competency: Expertlevel skills in SQL with experience in data warehousing solutions like Snowflake Redshift or BigQuery.
- You have AI and Machine Learning Knowledge: While not a machine learning expert you should have a good understanding of how AI/ML can be integrated into data platforms to improve personalization automation and reporting.
- You have strong Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts and collaborate with nontechnical stakeholders effectively.
- You have worked in a tech company before and are familiar with the way a tech company operates and some of the concepts particular to our industry (e.g. growth accounting product funnels designing analytic events etc.
- You have experience with R or Python and have dealt with large datasets before.
- You have Subscription Data Expertise preferably: Familiarity with subscriptionbased business models and collaborative product data sets.
- Handson experience with integrating AI solutions into data analytics workflows is a strong plus.
About the team
Our Growth Supergroup is tasked with driving Canvas user and revenue growth through datadriven productled strategies. We focus on scaling the adoption of our subscription productsCanva Pro Canva Teams and Canva Enterpriseacross businesses of all sizes.
As the business expands were investing heavily in growing a highperformance crossfunctional team that includes Product Growth Marketing Sales and Data. Our goal is to supercharge growth through better data insights AI integration and scalable platform solutions. In just three years our data team has grown from 3 to 50 professionals and there is a constant need to enhance our technical infrastructure to support hypergrowth.
In this role youll lead initiatives that optimize data efficiency build out new experimentation and personalization capabilities and introduce AI to elevate our growth strategy. Your work will range from deep technical dives such as scaling our Snowflake infrastructure and exploring AIdriven personalization frameworks to highimpact strategic efforts like automating revenue and experiment data analysis with OpenAI integrations (combining the qual and quant!.
Whats in it for you
Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard and we do but youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.
Heres a taste of whats on offer:
- Equity packages we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing social connection office setup & more
- Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good take time to recharge and supports you personally
Check out lifeatcanva for more info.
Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above we still want to hear from you!
Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
