Xero is hiring a
Head of Engineering in Australia, New Zealand

Summary

The job is for a Head of Engineering at Xero, responsible for leading a team of 40-50 engineers in the Bank Reconciliation and Inventory portfolios. The role involves shaping technical strategy, delivering customer outcomes, and ensuring alignment with Xero's product and engineering strategic objectives.

Requirements

• Experience of managing teams of people in product or technology companies. Ideally experienced being a leader of leaders
• Proven ability to navigate areas of conflict in an open, positive and proactive way
• Proven ability to plan and implement strategic change, while getting buy-in from stakeholders
• Proven ability of thought leadership and true global perspective
• Excellent grasp of modern software and engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple portfolio domains and ensure teams are aligned to Xero’s product and engineering strategic objectives and priorities
• Collaborate with the General Manager (GM) of Engineering to proactively manage the risk of delivery and drive consistency in the way we deliver
• Ensure your team is aware and aligned with the Xero engineering standards, compliance and best practices
• Ensure that the performance of your team is actively measured and monitored, with issues identified as quickly as possible and actively managed through to resolution
• Working with your engineering leaders to ensure that the right training and support is provided to teams to balance working styles, experience, capability, well being and career aspirations

Benefits

• Generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing, Employee Assistance Program, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value