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SalaryAt Canva, our mission is to empower the world to design, and we're looking for insightful Data Scientists who can help us make that happen.
We're looking for self-motivated individuals who are curious about our product and our users, and who are excited to seek out valuable insights. We don't want you to just be a resource that answers questions - we want you to act as a genuine data partner with your team and the broader business. We have a LOT of data and need people who can use their skills to help us make the most of it!
You'll be coming into a diverse data team of more than forty people, who really do enjoy finding answers to the problems that our users have. We're looking forward to continuing to grow our team and gaining a range of new perspectives and ideas on how we can achieve our goals and help more people.
This role will rely on your particular strengths in building out data-driven decisions, communicating closely with stakeholders, and organising your fellow data team members such that the data attitude in this space is highly proactive.
Role Responsibilities
Coach a team of data specialists, composed of Data Scientists and sometimes Analytics Engineers. This role will act as a driver of data strategy in this group and will coordinate closely with the Product Growth Manager.
It will require close coordination with several stakeholders and a real sense of drive and initiative to keep things moving. Nobody tells you what to do; you identify the opportunities where your team can make the largest impact and you see it through.
Manage project intake, pipeline, prioritize, and manage staffing against key initiatives.
Although you are a technical guru, you also have people skills and know how to coordinate a team, align with stakeholders, and organise a data strategy in your particular area.
Find insights that help us understand both Canva and our customers - we want you to be creative and insightful, rather than just throwing the usual metrics at the wall to see what sticks
Suggest and run interesting experiments that will actually move our metrics - when we push tests to 100% we want to actually see the bump in the relevant graph
Build and maintain dashboards for your group's initiatives, and make them look really good - you don't need to be a designer or have any design talent, you just need to want to build cool things
Own projects, data models, dashboards, and other artefacts and keep them up-to-date and high quality in a hypergrowth environment
Use our giant databases to answer the sort of questions that sound really simple but turn out to be challenging (and fun!)
Help us extend data literacy and curiosity throughout the whole company
Required Skills & Experience
Demonstrable experience leading data specialists, defining team strategy, and data roadmaps.
Experience working with subscription-based data sets. It would be desirable if you have experience with collaborative products as well.
Strong competency with SQL; experience with data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery is a plus!
Experience wrangling and analysing data using Python or R
Experience with optimising product funnels, running experiments, and building dashboards that effectively communicate results and outcomes
A grounding in mathematics / statistics and a bachelor's degree in a STEM area is preferred; but not required
Experience with very large data sets is a huge plus, but not required
Strong communication skills - verbal and written - be able to break down complex topics into simple solutions and ideas. Stakeholder management skills are vital in this role.
