Canva

Lead Data Scientist – Experience Value, Growth

Canva

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇳🇿 New Zealand

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PythonSQL

About the role

  • Coaching a team of embedded data scientists to deliver insights, experimentation, and strategic clarity across the logged-in experience
  • Owning key metrics for onboarding, personalisation, and lifecycle journeys — and using them to guide decisions
  • Leading end-to-end experimentation, from designing hypotheses to rollout recommendations
  • Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to drive engagement, retention, and activation outcomes
  • Uplifting experimentation and BI foundations across Snowflake, Looker, and Canva’s internal tools
  • Translating data into actionable recommendations — and setting the standard for high-impact analysis and storytelling
  • Enabling data-driven, personalised user experiences at scale — across onboarding, resurrection, triggers, and next-best actions

Requirements

  • You’ve led and coached data scientists within a fast-paced product environment
  • You bring strong expertise in experimentation, retention analytics, and lifecycle metrics
  • You’re fluent in SQL and comfortable with data wrangling in Python or R
  • You’ve worked with SaaS product datasets and know how to balance rigour and speed
  • You’re known for crafting clear, evidence-based recommendations that drive decisions
  • You love turning complexity into clarity — especially when guiding non-technical stakeholders
  • You enjoy growing people and lifting the bar for storytelling, experimentation, and impact
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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
SQLPythonRexperimentationretention analyticslifecycle metricsdata wranglingdata analysisdata storytellingSaaS product datasets
Soft skills
coachingleadershipcommunicationclaritydecision-makingcollaborationproblem-solvingmentoringstrategic thinkinguser experience design