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Leads Xero’s ANZ communications strategy, media relations, executive profiling, external content, campaigns, and proactive or reactive issues management. Advises senior stakeholders during sensitive situations, manages a communications team, collaborates across marketing and global communications, and supports brand reputation through integrated programs in Australia and New Zealand.

Develop and operationalize data and AI governance frameworks, translating policy and regulatory requirements into practical guidance. Partner cross-functionally to support responsible AI adoption, data stewardship, governance forums, literacy programs, and technical implementation. Advise stakeholders on bias, transparency, explainability, privacy, risk, and evolving regulations while improving governance processes and tooling.

Build and maintain SQL data models, dbt pipelines, snapshots, governed semantic layers, and trusted data products in Snowflake. Support financial, workforce, and legal reporting while helping develop conversational AI and agentic data capabilities. Partner with Finance, Legal, and People teams to translate business questions into reliable metrics and models. Validate outputs, improve data quality, share engineering patterns, mentor colleagues, and establish consistent modeling standards.

Develop and maintain Salesforce platform features using Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL, and declarative tools. Support connected sales tools, managed package upgrades, integrations, monitoring, SLOs, sandbox refreshes, and production deployments. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, improve scalability and engineering practices, respond to incidents, investigate root causes, and contribute to quality assurance through TDD and trunk-based development. Mentor colleagues and communicate technical concepts clearly while balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, and engineering quality.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, development, and operational health of Xero’s global bill-payments platform. Build highly available, secure, scalable backend services, contribute hands-on production code, solve distributed fintech problems, and guide technical planning. Partner with product, security, risk, legal, and operations teams while mentoring engineers, improving reliability and observability, leading on-call practices, and promoting AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Serve as a technical advisor and strategic partner for accounting practices, collaborating with sales teams to scope solutions, demonstrate Xero workflows, guide cloud implementations and migrations, and drive software adoption. Translate partner requirements into scalable strategies, resolve technical obstacles, identify risks, and support product feedback. The role requires accounting practice experience, consultative problem-solving, technical solution design, presentation skills, and familiarity with cloud accounting and workflow platforms.

Advises accounting firms on adopting Xero and digital accounting strategies. Builds trusted relationships with firm decision-makers, identifies operational needs, recommends practical technology solutions, and supports digital transformation within an assigned territory. The role is designed for CPA-qualified or experienced accounting professionals transitioning into relationship-driven SaaS sales and advisory work.

Lead employee journey improvements across People Experience and enterprise teams. Map end-to-end journeys, identify root causes, and design future-state experiences using self-service, automation, AI, and human support. Drive selected improvements from discovery through governed pilot, measurement, and handover. Build alignment among service owners and partners, clarify ownership and handoffs, influence without authority, and create reusable tools, playbooks, and coaching materials.

Owns payroll platforms, integrations, access, controls, reporting, and technical delivery across multiple regions. Translates Pay team needs into requirements, manages testing through launch, troubleshoots data flows and recurring errors, and improves workflows using automation and AI. Partners with Pay, Finance, Technology, and vendors to reduce reconciliation and journal errors while maintaining reliable payroll operations.

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.