Senior Product Manager Data Platform

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

About the Role

• Lead and contribute to the Data Platform strategy and roadmap. Working alongside engineering leadership youll shape the vision for how Canvas data platform evolves prioritising investments across ingestion transformation orchestration governance and the Semantic Layer. Youll build the business cases that unlock resources and keep the platform aligned to company goals.

• Chart the course for the AI first evolution of data analytics and decision making. Youll define how Canva leverages AI to transform analytics insights and decision-making. This is early-stage work that needs product leadership to move from experimentation to a coherent scalable strategy including conversational analytics automated decisioning and AI-powered self-serve insights.

• Build deep relationships across a complex stakeholder landscape. Your users span data scientists analytics engineers business teams and company leadership. Youll maintain regular touchpoints run forums and build the trust needed to align competing priorities across a broad surface area.

• Drive platform adoption enablement and measurable impact. Youll establish the measurement frameworks that track platform health adoption and ROI. Youll drive enablement programs that help teams self-serve and tell the story of DPGs impact through metrics case studies and regular stakeholder updates.

• Strengthen governance access and data trust. Youll ensure the platforms governance and access controls mature alongside Canva driving improvements to data sharing retention security and audit readiness in partnership with engineering security and legal.

Youre probably a match if

This is a specialised domain role. Were looking for someone with deep experience in data platforms and a track record of leading product in technically complex high-stakes environments.

• Youve managed major data platforms for significant digital organisations. You understand the full stack - from ingestion and transformation through to BI and analytics - and youre fluent in how data science and AI teams consume platform capabilities.

• Youve worked with Snowflake Google Cloud/BigQuery AWS Databricks or equivalent platforms at scale. You understand the architecture trade-offs and can hold your own in technical conversations.

•  Youve led major shifts in data platform architecture and strategic direction not just incremental improvements but meaningful changes to how an organisation manages governs and leverages its data.

• Youve worked on or shaped AI capabilities such as personalisation conversational analytics automated decisioning agentic workflows or AI-driven data products. You know whats hype and whats real.

• Youve navigated stakeholder groups spanning engineering data science product finance marketing and go-to-market. You know how to build alignment across competing priorities and earn trust with deeply technical teams.

• Experience with analytics and visualisation platforms (Tableau Looker Mode Omni or open-source tools) or experience navigating regulatory compliance or enterprise data governance requirements at scale.

About the team

The Infra SuperGroup at Canva makes complex technology simple for Canvanauts by building foundational platforms that propel Canvas growth. Every week thousands of engineers interact with the tools utilities and platforms that Infra provides. Infra plays a direct role in improving developer impact across the entire software lifecycle.

Within Infra the Data Platform Group (DPG) builds and operates the data platform so Canvanauts can self-serve reliable governed and performant data. DPG provides paved-road capabilities tools patterns and SLO-backed services while domain teams own their data products. The groups surface area spans ingestion transformation orchestration governance observability activation and BI/analytics. Its built on Snowflake dbt Apache Airflow and a growing governed Semantic Layer that powers both BI and emerging AI use cases.

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 range 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

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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 :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time