Senior Data Scientist - Affinity

Location: Team Engineering

Team: Country London / United Kingdom

About the Role

Join the team at Canva redefining how the world experiences design. We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist - Affinity to join our Engineering team in London, United Kingdom, on a full-time hybrid schedule. Affinity is our suite of world-class creative software for photo editing, vector design, and layout, empowering professionals and enthusiasts to bring ideas to life faster and more beautifully. In this role, you'll partner with passionate engineers, designers, product experts, community, and marketing teams in a close-knit, cross-functional squad to deliver actionable insights that shape Affinity's evolution in a hypergrowth environment. You'll dive deep into our massive datasets to uncover creative, non-obvious insights about our products and customers, design experiments that drive real metric lifts, and craft stunning dashboards that make data accessible and inspiring for everyone. Owning your projects from data models to reporting, you'll tackle challenging questions that fuel innovation, extend data literacy across Canva, and optimise funnels to enhance the creative workflow. Our collaborative, design-focused culture thrives on curiosity, precision, and pushing boundaries—your strategic thinking will help Affinity forge ahead into exciting new spaces. At Canva, we celebrate diverse skills and backgrounds in our innovative, inclusive environment. You'll enjoy equity packages, inclusive parental leave, a Vibe & Thrive allowance, flexible options, and our buzzing Shoreditch campus with chef-prepared meals and dedicated coaching for growth. Interviews are virtual—apply now to help empower creatives everywhere.

Key Responsibilities

• Uncover creative insights about Affinity products and customers to drive strategic decisions
• Design and execute impactful experiments that measurably improve key metrics
• Build and maintain visually appealing, intuitive dashboards for product teams
• Own end-to-end data projects, ensuring models and artefacts remain high-quality in hypergrowth
• Query giant databases to solve deceptively complex business questions
• Collaborate with product, engineering, design, community, and marketing teams
• Extend data literacy and curiosity across Canva's cross-functional squads
• Shape product decisions through actionable insights and strategic reporting
• Optimise user funnels to enhance the creative experience in Affinity tools
• Support Affinity's mission to empower professionals in photo editing, vector design, and layout

Required Qualifications

• Strong competency with SQL for querying large datasets
• Experience with data wrangling and analysis using Python or R
• Demonstrated skills in optimising product funnels and running experiments
• Proven ability to build effective dashboards that communicate results clearly
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to simplify complex topics
• Experience owning data projects, models, and artefacts in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
• Hands-on work with very large datasets at scale
• Grounding in mathematics and statistics
• Background in product analytics for creative or design-focused software
• Familiarity with experimentation platforms and A/B testing frameworks

Required Skills

• SQL proficiency for complex queries
• Python or R for data analysis and wrangling
• Experimentation and A/B testing design
• Dashboard development (e.g., Tableau, Looker, or similar)
• Product funnel optimisation
• Large-scale data handling
• Statistical analysis and mathematics
• Data storytelling and visualisation
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking for product insights
• Clear verbal and written communication
• Adaptability in hypergrowth environments
• Curiosity and creativity in data exploration
• Ownership of data artefacts
• Familiarity with data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)

Benefits

• Equity packages to share in Canva's success
• Inclusive parental leave policy for all parents and carers
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
• Flexible leave options to recharge and support personal needs
• Hybrid work model with choice in where and how you work
• Access to Canva's vibrant London campus in Shoreditch with chef-prepared meals
• Dedicated coaching for personal and professional growth
• Opportunities to collaborate in a design-focused, innovative culture

Canva is an equal opportunity employer.