Canva
SaaS • Media • Education
Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.
Senior Analytics Engineer – Growth
November 5
Canva
SaaS • Media • Education
Canva is a versatile online design platform that empowers users to create a wide range of professional designs with ease. From social media posts and presentations to business cards and posters, Canva provides thousands of templates and design tools to help users bring their creative ideas to life. The platform also offers a suite of AI-powered features to enhance creativity and productivity, including tools like Magic Write for copy generation and Magic Edit for photo transformations. Canva caters to individuals, teams, and enterprises, making it an ideal solution for collaborative design and workflow management. It is also committed to sustainability and social impact, offering free educational and nonprofit access to its premium features.
📋 Description
• Building the foundational analytics layer that powers Canva’s ability to use large language models (LLMs) for answering business questions through natural language interfaces, enabling non-technical users to get answers from data without needing SQL • Designing and implementing robust, scalable semantic data models that translate raw data into business-friendly concepts for real-time and AI-assisted querying • Partnering with data scientists, product analysts, and business stakeholders to automate performance reporting and connect hundreds of experiments with foundational goal metrics such as revenue, active users, and retention • Modernising legacy dashboards by integrating AI-first approaches, from query translation to proactive insights, and helping define the next generation of LLM-native reporting at Canva • Writing production-quality code in SQL and Python to optimise and orchestrate transformations, develop resilient pipelines, and shape the end-to-end data experience • Contributing to a data platform that supports the entire company in making better decisions - faster, smarter, and more intuitively
🎯 Requirements
• You have solid experience working in large-scale data environments, ideally in cloud-native stacks (AWS preferred) • You have strong SQL, Python, and data modelling expertise, and you’re comfortable building robust semantic layers that abstract complexity for business users • You’ve worked with modern MPP cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery, and understand performance tuning and optimisation • You’re familiar with the ELT approach to data transformation and can build clean, reliable, and tested pipelines using SQL, Python, and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt) • You’re excited by the potential of AI and LLMs in analytics, and you’ve either worked on or are eager to work on systems that enable natural language interfaces for querying data • You understand the trade-offs in building semantic models for LLM interpretation, and you care deeply about data quality, explainability, and accessibility • You've helped teams transition from traditional dashboards to smarter, AI-powered analytics tools that bring the right insights to the right people at the right time • You’re a strong communicator who thrives in cross-functional collaboration and can translate between technical implementation and business impact • You're curious, self-directed, and love staying at the forefront of analytics, AI, and how they intersect
🏖️ 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
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