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Leads Xero’s internal AI transformation and strategic programs from opportunity scoping through implementation and adoption. Responsibilities include structuring ambiguous problems, developing recommendations and business cases, translating AI goals into requirements and delivery plans, coordinating technical and non-technical stakeholders, and driving measurable outcomes. The role also involves commercial decision-making, cross-functional influence, mentoring, and supporting operating model and technology transformation.

Shape technical strategy for Xero’s payments products and platform portfolios, influencing architecture, engineering standards, and scalable distributed systems across 40–50 engineers. Partner with senior stakeholders, remain hands-on with design and code, guide decisions on legacy systems, mentor senior engineers, and lead initiatives involving payment rails, APIs, cloud platforms, AI-powered workflows, and global transaction infrastructure.

Shape technical strategy for Xero’s Payments Products and Payments Platform portfolios. Design scalable, resilient distributed systems, guide architecture across 40–50 engineers, evaluate legacy systems for extension or migration, and remain hands-on with technical work. Collaborate with product and senior engineering stakeholders, mentor Staff and Senior engineers, establish engineering standards, and support payment platform modernization, AI-powered workflows, global rails, and growth experimentation.

Own the global affiliate channel for Xero and Melio, managing publisher relationships, campaigns, budgets, tracking, attribution, reporting, and optimization. The role will grow affiliate programs across Australia, the UK, and the US; collaborate with engineering, data science, product, and brand teams; and develop AI-powered tools and automation to scale customer acquisition and improve lifetime value and first-time payer outcomes.

Leads Xero’s global employment legal strategy and advises executives and people leaders on workforce strategy, restructures, investigations, disputes, labor law, and organizational change. Establishes global legal frameworks, playbooks, escalation paths, and self-service resources; manages complex claims, regulatory inquiries, M&A employment matters, and external counsel. Partners across regional Legal, Employee Relations, and risk teams while using technology and AI to create scalable legal support.

Design and build scalable data solutions spanning ingestion, modelling, pipelines, and platform infrastructure. Own complex technical problems, improve data quality and self-service capabilities, and operate production systems with monitoring and incident response. Use Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, AWS, Terraform, and Flink to develop reliable data platforms and real-time products. Collaborate with product, security, engineering, and data-consuming teams while promoting automation, testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.

Lead global product marketing for Xero Payments, including bill and invoice payments. Define customer value propositions, positioning, messaging, launch strategies, enablement, and growth initiatives. Partner with Product, Strategy, Design, Analytics, Lifecycle, Sales, and regional teams to assess market opportunities, improve adoption and revenue, and develop measurable customer lifecycle experiments across geographies.

Build and operate Xero’s enterprise Salesforce platform through hands-on development, code reviews, design reviews, incident response, proofs of concept, security improvements, CI/CD automation, release engineering, observability, and agentic change management. The role partners across engineering teams, writes technical documentation, sets platform standards, supports production reliability, and mentors senior engineers while maintaining high deployment and uptime standards.

Maintain and evolve Xero’s large-scale search infrastructure, supporting 50+ million documents, 400TB of data, and 99.9% uptime. Contribute to a search platform modernization project, cluster maintenance, ingestion pipeline integration, and search partnerships. Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams while developing search engineering expertise through code reviews and progressively more complex work.

Lead complex security investigations and medium- to high-impact incident response as an Incident Commander. Coach junior analysts, conduct post-incident reviews, improve detections and runbooks, and coordinate security initiatives. Build automations and AI-assisted workflows with appropriate guardrails, collaborate with detection engineers, apply threat intelligence, and communicate clearly with customers and internal stakeholders. The role operates in a global follow-the-sun team with shared after-hours on-call responsibilities.