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Leads Xero’s global growth content organization and redesigns its content operating model for an AI-native future. Owns content strategy across the funnel, establishes test-and-learn practices, connects content performance to business outcomes, improves brand consistency and channel fit, and develops a high-performing global team. Partners across marketing, product, analytics, sales, communications, SEO, and regional teams within a complex global matrix.

Engineer AI-enabled automation, integrations, workflows, and guardrails across Xero’s Atlassian, Google Workspace, Slack, and internal AI ecosystem. Own production systems, solve complex technical challenges, improve reliability, contribute to architecture and engineering standards, maintain documentation, and support or mentor teammates. The role requires hands-on scripting, API and integration design, cloud productivity systems expertise, security awareness, and strong communication in a hybrid Vancouver-based team.

Develop positioning, messaging, go-to-market plans, lifecycle campaigns, customer proof points, and advocacy programs for Xero’s Accountant & Bookkeeper Platform. The role focuses on Workpapers, tax, compliance workflows, and Agentic Tax across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, US, Canada, and other markets. It requires translating complex accounting, tax, audit, and compliance capabilities into clear customer value while aligning product, regional, compliance, tax, and customer teams.

Develop and deploy machine learning products and services by translating complex business problems into applied research programs. Build robust data pipelines and reusable code in Python or Scala, develop and evaluate applications involving NLP, computer vision, and LLMs, and monitor algorithms at scale. The role also involves managing research risks, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring colleagues, communicating complex findings, and raising scientific and engineering standards.

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.