Data Science Manager

Xero
Vancouver
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 140,000 - 190,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Leadership","Coaching","Communication","Causal thinking"]

Lead a small pod of three Data Scientists in Marketing Data Science, owning marketing measurement for North America while personally driving churn analysis and funnel effectiveness. Shape how quickly and confidently marketing decisions are made by embedding AI-driven insight generation and agentic analytics into day-to-day delivery. Set operating rhythms for a distributed team across time zones, coach effectively, and translate complex analysis into decisions teams act on.

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Data Science Manager

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Job Summary

Lead a small pod of three Data Scientists in Marketing Data Science, owning marketing measurement for North America while personally driving churn analysis and funnel effectiveness. Shape how quickly and confidently marketing decisions are made by embedding AI-driven insight generation and agentic analytics into day-to-day delivery. Set operating rhythms for a distributed team across time zones, coach effectively, and translate complex analysis into decisions teams act on.
Location: Vancouver
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage a team of 3 Data Scientists in Marketing Data Science, staying close to the data while people-managing data scientists across Australia, the UK, and South Africa.
  • •Personally own marketing measurement for North America, including campaign and event measurement.
  • •Drive churn analysis and funnel effectiveness to shape acquisition, retention, engagement, and personalisation.
  • •Embed AI-driven insight generation and agentic analytics into daily delivery to reduce time to insight across regions.
  • •Set the operating rhythm for a team across time zones, ensuring sustainable delivery and presenting complex analysis simply for decision-making.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 140,000 - 190,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceRetirement ProgramsPaid LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Practical marketing measurement experience across campaigns and events, churn analysis, and funnel effectiveness, translating findings into actionable recommendations.
  • •Working knowledge of SQL and solid Python, with a strong foundation in statistics, experimentation, and causal thinking.
  • •Familiarity with Google Analytics, Mixpanel, and BigQuery for analytics and measurement work.
  • •Ability to use AI-driven and agentic analytics to accelerate time from question to insight.
  • •Strong communication that flexes between technical and non-technical audiences, with comfort coaching across time zones and ambiguity.
Experience:Marketing analytics
Skills:LeadershipCoachingCommunicationCausal thinking
Tech Stack:SQLPythonBigQueryGoogle AnalyticsMixpanelGTMDashboardsVisualisation tools

Company Brief

Xero
Provides cloud-based accounting, payroll, and financial management software for small and medium-sized businesses, enabling invoicing, bank reconciliation, reporting, and integrations with third-party apps globally.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Wellington, New Zealand
Founded: 2006
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