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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.

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.

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.

Leads capability development for Product and Technology teams by building skills frameworks, upskilling programs, internal mobility pathways, and outcome-based metrics. Partners with engineering, product, design, security, data science, senior technical leaders, and People Experience to identify capability gaps and align development initiatives with business goals. Focuses on AI/ML and emerging technology needs, employee growth, retention, delivery velocity, and time-to-productivity.

Lead data and AI governance initiatives by evolving governance frameworks, creating practical guidance, delivering literacy programs, and partnering with technical, privacy, regulatory, risk, and business teams. The role focuses on responsible AI adoption, data stewardship, quality, lineage, transparency, explainability, bias mitigation, regulatory alignment, and translating policy into scalable technical and operational practices.

Lead Xero’s global Paid Search program by building AI-powered automation, bidding, optimization, reporting, and workflow systems. Partner with Data Science, Marketing Technology, Product, CRO, and Performance Marketing teams to improve SEM scalability and decision-making. Explore emerging search technologies, validate automated solutions, translate technical concepts for senior stakeholders, and mentor SEM specialists while driving measurable commercial growth.