Own the roadmap for approximately 38 People and Payroll systems, including Workday, payroll, hiring, onboarding, learning, engagement, and wellbeing platforms. Lead a specialist team, prioritize improvements with cross-functional stakeholders, clarify technology ownership, manage vendors, support business cases, and protect payroll accuracy, data quality, privacy, and compliance. Drive self-service, automation, AI, user adoption, and improved employee and People team experiences.

Lead strategy and execution for Xero’s AI Shared Services platform, including eventing, communications, search, and related reusable capabilities. Define the domain roadmap, establish success metrics and dashboards, build stakeholder relationships, and drive adoption across product and engineering teams. The role requires managing interdependent platform products, applying technical fluency across distributed systems and cloud environments, making investment cases, navigating ambiguity and dependencies, and growing high-performing people and teams.

Lead the strategy, development, and scaling of shared platforms and operating models for AI-native delivery. Align stakeholders, establish roadmaps and governance, measure adoption and organizational impact, and move AI workflows from pilots into repeatable products. Partner with Engineering, Security, Data, and other teams while coaching teams in effective AI product practices and translating complex technical capabilities into investment decisions.