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[Hiring] Staff Applied Scientist @Xero
Apr 03, 2025 - Xero is hiring a remote Staff Applied Scientist. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: Canada.
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Role Description
As a Staff Applied Scientist at Xero, you will work closely with colleagues from across the business to refine tough problems that can be solved with the application of scientific thinking, algorithms, and analytical data processing.
- Assist in breaking problems down into more tractable sub-problems for teams.
- Build a culture of collaboration, mutual respect, healthy skepticism, and embracing a growth mindset.
- Shape teams while mentoring and coaching individuals, cultivating the scientific competencies of your team and Xero more broadly.
- Play a leadership role in cross-functional teams including engineers, designers, and product owners.
- Contribute to the Science, Evaluation, and Measurement leadership team, helping to shape Xero’s approach to deriving value from quantitative sciences.
- Contribute to strategic research themes aligned with realizing Xero’s vision of being the most insightful and trusted small business platform.
What you’ll do
Science
- Collaborate with Principal Scientists to develop the applied science roadmap at Xero.
- Identify opportunities to improve our ability to extract value from data.
- Identify cross-cutting opportunities to improve the quality of our data and its coverage of our core products/services.
- Contribute to defining and implementing best practices for applied research in your domain.
- Distil the latest developments in your field into new opportunities for Xero.
- Act as an educator and evangelist to raise literacy around data and your domain of applied science.
- Lead one or more applied research programs that underpin development of new products and features within Xero.
Engineering
- Contribute to and drive our coding standards, collaborating with engineers.
- Identify opportunities to improve research tooling and lead the scoping and implementation of improvements.
- Shape the end-to-end pipelines that support data-intensive applications at Xero.
Problem Definition
- Lead the refinement and translation of business problems into scientific programs.
- Provide leadership to teams in ensuring that our research programs are ethically sound.
Influence
- Contribute to, communicate, and model how Xero’s values can be represented in our work.
- Influence Xero’s thinking around data and your domain of applied science.
- Participate in our recruitment processes, helping Xero grow diverse and world-class talent in Applied Science.
- Represent Xero externally by speaking at public forums to raise awareness of the work we do.
- Cultivate Xero as a great place to work, embracing a growth mindset, intellectual rigour, humility, curiosity, and mutual respect.
Success looks like
- Creating beautiful data products and delivering real value through thoughtful user experiences.
- Using appropriate machine learning methods to solve customer problems.
- Maintaining high quality work while minimizing unnecessary friction.
- Engaging respectfully, collaborating effectively, and delivering high quality work.
- Living Xero’s values and committing to continually growing skills.
- Growing in the ability to identify problems that can be solved through quantitative sciences.
- Building momentum across the data lifecycle and improving data quality.
- Being a great place to work for scientists seeking impactful applied research work.
What you’ll bring with you
Critical competencies
- A track record in translating strategic business objectives into research programs.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to articulate and advocate the Data Team's vision.
- Ability to exercise effective judgement, sensitivity, and creativity.
- Build trust and credibility with stakeholders across all levels of the business.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to contribute meaningful and accurate advice.
Experience
- Expert-level hands-on skills in a domain of applied science.
- Track record in delivering real-world impact through applied science.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams to research, develop, and deliver systems.
- Track record in developing both technical and non-technical skills of teams and mentees.
Why Xero?
- Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we value that.
- Offering very generous paid leave, health insurance, and wellness programs.
- Flexible working, career development, and many other benefits reflecting our human values.
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