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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.

Senior Search Engineer responsible for maintaining and scaling Xero’s global search platform, supporting hundreds of millions of documents with 99.9% uptime. The role includes contributing to a multi-year platform rebuild, developing search capabilities, collaborating on ingestion pipelines, reviewing code, leading projects, and partnering with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams. Experience with production search systems and strong software engineering fundamentals is required; data or AI tooling experience is advantageous.

Lead a distributed data engineering team to design, build, and maintain core data models and real-time data flows on an AWS/Snowflake platform. Balance strategic architecture and hands-on delivery, manage risks and dependencies, establish SLOs and DataOps practices, and coach senior engineers to improve platform quality and performance.

The Principal Software Engineer will lead mobile application development, bridge technical and product strategies, and ensure engineering excellence at Xero.

Lead company-wide strategic and operational initiatives: shape long-term strategy, run annual planning, OKRs and Board reporting, produce market intelligence, perform quantitative analysis and business cases, drive governance and cross-functional execution, and apply AI tools to improve ways of working.

Lead strategic planning, market intelligence, and operational rhythms (annual planning, OKRs, Board reporting). Structure ambiguous problems with quantitative analysis, build business cases, run governance and cross-functional delivery, and embed AI-enabled ways of working to improve speed and quality of outputs.

Develop and improve data and AI governance frameworks, translate policies into practical guidance, deliver data and AI literacy programs, and advise cross-functional teams on responsible AI, privacy, risk, transparency, bias, and regulatory compliance. The role partners with Product, Security, Privacy, Regulatory, Risk, and engineering teams to implement governance across Xero.