General Manager Engineering

2 months ago

Sydney, Australia Xero Full time

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

**Lead the Charge in Building Beautiful Business Solutions**

Xero is on a mission to make running a business beautiful for small businesses and their advisors. We're looking for an exceptional GM/VP of Engineering to lead our Practice Portfolio team, dedicated to unlocking the full potential of Xero's products for accountants and bookkeepers.

The GM - Engineering will lead, grow, and manage a leadership team and their engineering teams that

are accountable for engineering, operational and people excellence resulting in high-quality software

Working closely with Product Management, Architecture and Engineering teams, the GM Engineering

provides technical oversight across their portfolio, ensuring the right things are built at the right time

and through doing so will contribute to Xero achieving its goals.

As the GM - Engineering, you will be responsible for teams of Xero's that create value for our small

businesses and our partners by building and informing the centralised Platform and Enablement

strategies.

**What You'll Do**:

- Drive Impact: Lead the Engineering strategy, development, and delivery of innovative solutions that empower accounting professionals.
- Build High-Performing Teams: Foster a collaborative, customer-centric engineering culture that thrives on excellence.
- Deliver Results: Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality software that exceeds user expectations.
- Champion Operational Excellence: Implement robust processes for planning, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Align with Xero's Vision: Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to drive Xero's enablement strategy.

**What You'll Bring**:

- Proven Leadership: A strong track record of leading and inspiring geographically diverse engineering leaders and their teams.
- Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of modern software engineering practices and a passion for innovation.
- Strategic Mindset: Ability to make commercially sound decisions and drive global strategy execution.
- Customer Focus: A commitment to understanding and solving customer needs through technology.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong relationship building skills and ability to influence outside immediate remit, especially at a senior leadership level.

**Why Xero?**

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.

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