Senior Data Scientist - Discovery (12-month contract)

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Senior Data Scientist - Discovery (12-month contract)Full-timeRecruitment type: Fixed TermJob DescriptionJoin the team redefining how the world experiences design.Hey, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte!Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.Where and how you can workOur 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 roleAs 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 ifYou 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...