Senior Data Scientist - Discovery (12-month contract)

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.

This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment this role is focused on

Your primary goal will be to uncover product opportunities that help users succeed in their goals and to influence product roadmap by demonstrating their potential impact. You will do this by:

• Data insights: Your main goal in Discovery is to lead our data-centric strategy by delivering actionable insights from user behaviour data and empowering product teams to make informed choices that delight customers.

• Experimenting: designing experiments to test the hypotheses formulated from user research and your own strategic insights, analysing the results, and using them to influence next steps.

• Influencing with Metrics: designing and building goal metrics, forecasting and setting targets, designing analytics events that track feature usage, and building them into dashboards that track performance and product usage patterns. Then using them to diagnose issues at a high-level and influence what the business does.

• Building Relationships: Engaging with cross-functional stakeholders to understand their context and goals. Collaborating to gain insights into users, business value, engineering constraints, and future opportunities.

• Providing General Data Support: supporting business decision-making by offering essentional product and user context from user behaviour and feature usage data. Also working out ways of making this process more efficient (e.g. via self-serve).

You're probably a match if

• You have proven record of influencing business and product decisions with data, and directly contributing to company growth.

• You have a strong base in the fundamental technical skills of data science – hypothesis-driven problem solving, using SQL to wrangle data, numerical thinking, designing & forecasting goal metrics, uncovering strategic insights, and storytelling with data.

• It would be desirable if you have experience working with search or recommendations related data sets.

• You have the soft skills & personal qualities to understand the various stories user behaviour data might tell and to influence decisions makers: balancing speed and accuracy, identifying biases in interpreting data, connecting the dots between different researches, speaking persuasively in public, and writing concisely and clearly.

• You have experience with other technical data science skills, especially experimenting, designing analytic events, & data warehousing.

• You may have a grounding in mathematics/statistics and a bachelor's degree in a STEM area.

• You have worked in a tech company that produced a web/mobile-based customer-facing product before and are familiar with the way a tech company operates and some of the concepts particular to our industry (e.g. product funnels, designing analytic events, etc.).

• You have experience with R or Python, and have dealt with large datasets before.

• You are an eager learner who is willing to learn new context and new ways to do things. This includes eagerness to go all in in using AI tools to increase productivity and impact.

About the team

You’ll be coming in to join our Discovery data team at Canva, as a core part of the Discovery group. The Discovery Group is responsible building AI & ML models and user experiences to surface the most relevant content to the users to help everyone design faster, smarter, and in their own unique way. We're building a highly personalised Canva making it easy for users to discover over 100M+ templates, photos, videos and elements. The Discovery Data team partners with the product, engineering and design teams identifying opportunities to improve the user experience and the search and recommendation models behind them.
 

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll 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.

Here's a taste of what's 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.com 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 don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.