Canva

SaaS

DataScienceManagerGTMSales

Austin, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Data Science Manager - GTM Sales at Canva. Skills: Data Science Management, GTM Strategy, AI Implementation, Stakeholder Communication. Coach four data scientists. Set team priorities and roadmap”

What You'll Achieve.

make Sales and CS smarter through data; shaping the analytical narrative for an executive review; move beyond ad-hoc analysis into productionised models; scale impact; automating action on the signals we already collect; standing up self-serve analytics surfaces; get the answers they need without going through a data scientist; shipping data products that materially shifted how a Sales or CS organisation operated; take action on signals; put answers in stakeholders' hands directly; turn data into the system of record; instrument the funnel; design the metrics that matter; enable AI-driven automation and self-service; powers both the conversations leaders have and the workflows reps run

Industry & Context.

SaaS
Problems you'll solve

balance strategic with hands-on; debugging a Snowflake query; Which deals are real; which accounts are at risk; where should we put the next dollar of capacity

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

SQL, data modeling, modern BI tool

Nice to Have

PhD preferred, specific ML framework experience, cloud platform certs

What You'll Do.

Coach four data scientists

Set team priorities and roadmap

Lead analytical roadmap

Champion team's use of AI

Represent team's work

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

close partnership with Sales, CS, Marketing, and RevOps leaders; partner closely with Sales leadership, CS leadership, Marketing Data, and the broader Data org

Communication Scope

confident communicator; win the trust of senior commercial leaders; translating complex analyses into the punchy, decision-ready narratives

Process & Methodology

balance the urgent against the important, push back when the team is being pulled in too many directions

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