Head of Platforms

We're a leading business management solution with a core purpose: helping more businesses in Australia and New Zealand start, survive and succeed.

At MYOB, we believe what's good for one business is good for all business—and for all of us. Whether you support them, work for them, or dream of building your own, when businesses run smoothly, everybody feels it. Owners, employees, customers, suppliers—even families. That's why we're here: to give every person in business the tools they need to focus on what really matters and do Big Things—whatever big looks like for them.

And for you? Joining MYOB means being part of that impact. It means using your skills to help businesses thrive, shaping the future of work, and growing alongside the people and communities we support. Because while we're the business of software, we're really in the business of people. And that makes MYOB Everyone's Business.

The Opportunity

As the Head of Platforms , you will lead teams of teams to achieve outstanding results and drive MYOB's platform-first transformation and technical excellence. This role sits at the intersection of product and engineering leadership — architecting and scaling shared technology foundations that are secure, performant, and built to last. You'll define the platform vision, lead the delivery of extensible SaaS capabilities, and embed guidelines that enable teams to innovate faster. By aligning technical direction with product and commercial strategy, you'll ensure our platforms power exceptional customer experiences and measurable business impact.

• Highly developed management and leadership skills in a SaaS and Platform as a Product engineering environment, with extensive experience balancing competing priorities
• Leading Product Leaders & Engineering Managers and their teams to drive a compelling platform vision, treating platforms as customer-centric products with clear ownership and lifecycle management of roadmaps and backlogs.
• Explore groundbreaking technology and lead technical innovation through cloud-native systems, AI/ML-powered automation and analytics.
• Champion adoption of PlatformOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices to drive reliability, security, agility, and operational excellence.
• High proficiency in software engineering, architecture, platform design (API-first, microservices), and modern delivery practices.
• Detailed understanding of product management for platforms, integrating customer/collaborator feedback and business priorities.
• Lead end-to-end vendor and contract management, setting strategy, coordinating contracts, governing performance against critical metrics, handling risk and compliance, optimising cost and value, and driving renewals or exits to ensure continuity and business outcomes.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including coaching/mentoring, critical thinking, facilitation, change leadership, and team development with a focus on embracing our values
• Proven experience in leading high performance development capabilities, utilising agile methodologies
• Ability to source, develop and retain platform engineering, architect, and product management talent.
• Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, team members, partners and suppliers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical influencing
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Technology leadership to ensure platform vision and roadmaps align to company strategy. 

Our Culture & Benefits  

At MYOB our values are at the heart of everything we do. If you want to work and collaborate where opinions are valued, and your ideas can make a difference, come to a place where Your Work Matters.   

 See what it's like to work at MYOB and what we're all about. 

Enjoy a flexible, hybrid workplace that brings balance to how you work, all of our centrally located offices come together for a number of in-person celebrations and social events 

Set up your home office with a little financial help from us, and take advantage of great corporate discounts and vouchers from top retailers 

Benefit from our partnership with Sonder, which supports the wellbeing of our team members 

Unlock your potential via in-house training and programs, LinkedIn Learning, conferences and study assistance  

Access to a variety of leave options available to support your wellbeing, including up to an additional four weeks of purchased leave, generous parental leave, domestic violence leave, transgender leave, community leave, study leave, and more 

Join our communities, built around 'Wellness', 'Belonging' and the 'Planet' where you can make a meaningful contribution  

At MYOB, we're all about embracing difference and backing people to be their true selves. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and big believers that the best hires don't just fit our culture — they add to it. That means bringing your unique contributions, lived experiences, and fresh perspective to the table.

Love the sound of MYOB and this role but don't tick every single box in this ad? Apply anyway Studies show that women and underrepresented groups often hold back if they don't meet every requirement — but we want to hear from you. 

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