Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join Canva's People Group as a Senior Data Scientist and shape how the company leverages people data to enhance employee experience, drive data-informed decision-making, and achieve strategic goals. Lead data governance initiatives, build insightful dashboards, and develop a comprehensive view of people, performance, and workforce trends. This role involves leading the vision and roadmap for People Analytics, partnering with the People team, identifying data-driven opportunities, and building reporting and analytics capabilities. You will manage project intake and prioritization, provide leadership on data governance, and ensure data integrity and compliance. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in people analytics, data governance, and strong SQL skills. Canva offers a range of benefits, including equity packages, inclusive parental leave, wellbeing allowances, and flexible leave options.

Requirements

• Have extensive experience in defining team strategy, and data roadmaps, ideally in the people analytics domain
• Have expertise in data governance, enhancing data quality, and promoting ethical data practices, collaborating with teams to implement and bring these principles to life
• Be strong in SQL and have experience with data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
• Have experience working with internal-facing data tooling, including BI tools, glossaries and other tools
• Have people skills and know how to coordinate a team, align with stakeholders, and organise a data strategy
• Be a solid communicator, with an ability to break down complex topics into simple solutions and ideas. Stakeholder management skills are vital in this role
• Have a proven track record of building out a data-driven culture where data drives the strategy forward
• Be able to drive alignment with disparate stakeholders and rally them around a goal or vision

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision and and roadmap for our People Analytics function, aligning priorities with the broader Canva and People goals, and driving team execution of that roadmap
• Be a strategic thought partner to the People team, identifying opportunities to leverage data for more strategic decisions making
• Take initiative to look ahead, spotting high-impact opportunities, aligning senior stakeholders and keeping things moving at pace
• Continue to build out foundational reporting and analytics capabilities, including dashboards and key metrics, to empower data driven decisions
• Manage project intake, prioritisation and staffing against key initiatives
• Provide leadership and guidance on our people data governance framework, ensuring the integrity, security, and compliant use of people data, and educating and uplifting our people teams on these standards

Benefits

• 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