Senior Manager, Analytics Engineering (Remote ANZ)

Sydney - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change is part of our DNA. While your role will evolve over time heres a flavour of what youll be working on when you start:

Leading Product Analytics Engineering: Own and lead the Analytics Engineering function for the Product Org with Product AEs reporting to you and the team expected to grow over time.
Driving Analytics Architecture of the Future: Define own and evolve Canvas Product Analytics Engineering architecture including modular data domains semantic layers metrics systems and AI-ready foundations.
Elevating Analytics Engineering (AE) Craft: Set clear standards and best practices for analytics engineering across Product and coach AEs across levels to consistently deliver high-quality scalable data assets.
Partnering Across Product & Data: Work closely with Product Managers Data Scientists Engineers and Platform teams to translate complex product needs into robust reusable analytics solutions.
Balancing Strategy and Delivery: Combine long-term architectural thinking with pragmatic execution ensuring AE effort is focused on the highest-impact Product initiatives.
Acting as a Technical Leader: Be the senior escalation point for complex analytics problems and represent Analytics Engineering perspectives in Product and Data leadership forums.
Enabling Product Decisions: Ensure analytics foundations enable product discovery experimentation launches and long-term strategy helping teams confidently understand user behaviour product performance and the impact of their decisions.
Hands-on Where It Matters Most: Get actively involved in complex or high-leverage analytics engineering work while setting the technical direction for the team.

Youre probably a match if

You have extensive experience across Analytics Engineering Data Engineering or Software Engineering roles.

Youve led and coached Analytics Engineering teams including managing senior engineers and growing teams.

Youre deeply experienced with modern data platforms and tooling (e.g. SQL-based warehouses such as Snowflake dbt-style transformations orchestration and semantic layers).

You have strong opinions (weakly held) backed by experience on data modelling analytics architecture and platform scalability and are eager to try new approaches.

Youre comfortable operating at the intersection of technical depth people leadership and strategy.

You thrive on collaboration and can communicate clearly with both highly technical partners and senior non-technical stakeholders.

You care deeply about data quality reliability performance and cost efficiency.

About the team

Analytics Engineering sits within Canvas broader Data ecosystem. The Product Analytics Engineering team partners closely with Product Design and Engineering to ensure Canvas product decisions are powered by trusted timely and scalable data foundations.

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hardand we dobut youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva. Heres a taste of whats on offer:

Equity packages: We want our success to be yours too.
Inclusive parental leave policy: Supporting all parents and carers.
Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance: Supporting your wellbeing social connection office setup and more.
Flexible leave options: Empowering you to recharge and take time for what matters most.

Other stuff to know

We value unique experiences and skills. If you dont meet every requirement but feel passionate about this role wed still love to hear from you.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and its culture. Let us know your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Lets make an impact together!

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

What youd be doing in this roleAs Canva scales change is part of our DNA. While your role will evolve over time heres a flavour of what youll be working on when you start:Leading Product Analytics Engineering: Own and lead the Analytics Engineering function for the Product Org with Product AEs repor...

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change is part of our DNA. While your role will evolve over time heres a flavour of what youll be working on when you start:

Leading Product Analytics Engineering: Own and lead the Analytics Engineering function for the Product Org with Product AEs reporting to you and the team expected to grow over time.
Driving Analytics Architecture of the Future: Define own and evolve Canvas Product Analytics Engineering architecture including modular data domains semantic layers metrics systems and AI-ready foundations.
Elevating Analytics Engineering (AE) Craft: Set clear standards and best practices for analytics engineering across Product and coach AEs across levels to consistently deliver high-quality scalable data assets.
Partnering Across Product & Data: Work closely with Product Managers Data Scientists Engineers and Platform teams to translate complex product needs into robust reusable analytics solutions.
Balancing Strategy and Delivery: Combine long-term architectural thinking with pragmatic execution ensuring AE effort is focused on the highest-impact Product initiatives.
Acting as a Technical Leader: Be the senior escalation point for complex analytics problems and represent Analytics Engineering perspectives in Product and Data leadership forums.
Enabling Product Decisions: Ensure analytics foundations enable product discovery experimentation launches and long-term strategy helping teams confidently understand user behaviour product performance and the impact of their decisions.
Hands-on Where It Matters Most: Get actively involved in complex or high-leverage analytics engineering work while setting the technical direction for the team.

Youre probably a match if

You have extensive experience across Analytics Engineering Data Engineering or Software Engineering roles.

Youve led and coached Analytics Engineering teams including managing senior engineers and growing teams.

Youre deeply experienced with modern data platforms and tooling (e.g. SQL-based warehouses such as Snowflake dbt-style transformations orchestration and semantic layers).

You have strong opinions (weakly held) backed by experience on data modelling analytics architecture and platform scalability and are eager to try new approaches.

Youre comfortable operating at the intersection of technical depth people leadership and strategy.

You thrive on collaboration and can communicate clearly with both highly technical partners and senior non-technical stakeholders.

You care deeply about data quality reliability performance and cost efficiency.

About the team

Whats in it for you

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hardand we dobut youll experience lots of moments of magic connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva. Heres a taste of whats on offer:

Equity packages: We want our success to be yours too.
Inclusive parental leave policy: Supporting all parents and carers.
Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance: Supporting your wellbeing social connection office setup and more.
Flexible leave options: Empowering you to recharge and take time for what matters most.

Other stuff to know

We value unique experiences and skills. If you dont meet every requirement but feel passionate about this role wed still love to hear from you.

Lets make an impact together!

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills

Adobe Analytics
Data Analytics
SQL
Attribution Modeling
Power BI
R
Regression Analysis
Data Visualization
Tableau
Data Mining
SAS
Analytics

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