As a Senior Data Scientist - People Analytics at Canva, you will play a key role in shaping the data foundation across People domains such as performance, departures, workforce planning, and payroll. You'll generate meaningful insights, design intuitive dashboards, and collaborate with analytics engineers and stakeholders to drive data-informed decision-making across the global People team.
What You'll Do
- Continue building data foundation across People domains (performance, departures, workforce planning, payroll, etc.)
- Drive data literacy and data-informed mindset among our diverse People stakeholders
- Generate actionable insights - we want cohesive, meaningful analysis rather than standard metrics without purpose
- Create insight-driven dashboards that clearly communicate business progress and are intuitive to use (no design background needed, just effective data visualisation)
- Make complex data simple by building data models that make diverse sources accessible and easy to work with
- Strengthen data governance across People Org and improve data quality through best practices implementation
- Partner with analytics engineers to streamline data flow from warehouse to downstream reporting, enabling more effective team collaboration
- Enable stakeholder success by working closely together to tackle immediate business challenges
What We're Looking For
- You have strong SQL and data wrangling skills and are familiar with Snowflake or Redshift
- You have strong competency in translating business requirements into key business metrics and building reporting dashboards with visualisation tools such as Looker or Tableau
- You have experience wrangling and analysing data using Python or R and bring a strong foundation in statistics or a STEM field
- You have strong communication skills - verbal and written - to break down complex topics into simple solutions and ideas. Stakeholder management skills are vital in this role
- You have the ability to drive alignment with disparate stakeholders and rally them around a goal or vision
Nice to Have
- You have experience across both highly integrated (e.g. Workday) ERPs and related HR platforms (eg: SmartRecruiters) is a nice to have
- You have hands-on experience using AI in your work to drive greater impact
Technical Stack
- SQL
- Snowflake
- Redshift
- Looker
- Tableau
- Python
- R
Team & Environment
- Part of a large and diverse team across multiple offices around the world
- Part of the People team and also part of the broader Data team
Benefits & Compensation
- 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
Work Mode
You have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you. This role is remote across ANZ, with local presence supported in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds. 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.
