Data Scientist - Growth Strategy

About The Team

The mission of Canva's central strategy team is to support all of Canva in driving toward its crazy big goals. This is achieved by bringing a structured approach to solving business problems, informing key decisions, identifying and recommending growth opportunities, and ensuring Canva is focused on the most impactful priorities. The team sits within the Growth Supergroup, though it supports leadership right across the business. The Growth Supergroup is responsible for driving engagement and monetisation of the product. Sitting in Growth allows for direct relationships with product teams to make the most informed recommendations possible on strategic initiatives.

The remit of the team is diverse – it has supported Canva leadership on tackling big problems anchored in the Canva product. Examples include ‘how can we adapt Canva’s subscription tiers to accelerate growth?’, ‘how can we drive traffic to Canva from acquisitions?’, ‘how should we price our Teams product in different regions?’ and ‘what industries should we target in our B2B go-to-market strategy?’ - amongst many more!

What You’d Be Doing In This Role

As Canva scales, change continues to be part of its DNA. In this Data Scientist role, you will join a team of Product Growth Managers and other Data Scientists in delivering on strategic projects for leadership across the business. On a typical project, you will be a strategic data partner working closely with Product Growth Managers and other Data specialists across the organisation, using your sound technical and commercial skillset to deliver analysis and help inform recommendations.

No two days are the same! You’ll be able to take on novel strategic challenges and work with a diverse range of stakeholders and teams across the full Canva business. You are also encouraged to proactively identify what the next big opportunity for the team to support on might be.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

• Partnering with Product Growth Managers to tackle impactful strategic problems from right across the business.
• Using creative problem solving to find insights that help understand both Canva and its customers.
• Looking for opportunities that will actually move metrics – when tests are pushed to 100%, the goal is to see a bump in the relevant graph.
• Owning projects, data models, dashboards, and other artefacts and keeping them up-to-date and of a high quality in a hypergrowth environment.
• Using giant databases to answer the sort of questions that sound really simple but turn out to be challenging (and fun!).
• Helping to extend data literacy and curiosity throughout the whole company.

You're probably a match if

• You have strong competency with SQL; data wrangling and analysing data using Python or R is a plus!
• You can demonstrate skills in using data analysis to arrive at commercial insights.
• You have a solutions-focused approach and are able to drive projects to completion, including technical delivery as well as excellent stakeholder management.
• You have sound commercial aptitude, with product role experience a plus.
• 3+ years relevant work experience.
• You may have a grounding in mathematics/statistics and a bachelor's degree in a STEM area (not mandatory).
• You are a strong communicator, verbally and written, with the ability to break down complex topics into simple solutions and ideas.