Engineering Team Lead - SB&G AI Product Engineering

Our Purpose 

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

Our Teams

Join us at the forefront of Xero's AI revolution! Xero has unveiled its AI vision and introduced ‘Just Ask Xero’ — Xero’s new GenAI-powered smart business companion for small businesses and their advisors in February 2024. Read more here. 

You will join one of the AI Product Engineering teams in the Small Business and Growth Division and be accountable for the successful delivery of key AI initiatives. 

You will manage a group of engineers while directly contributing to the team's success by championing excellent engineering and delivery practices that enable the rapid delivery of high-quality software.

You will be responsible for supporting your direct reports in becoming awesome Xeros, empowering them to deliver high-quality software to customers and

fostering the growth of a world-class engineering culture. You will support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals in order to meet the capabilities required for the team. You’ll make sure the team has all the information they need and the right feedback loops in place to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and buildable outcomes. 

You’ll maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably. 

You’ll monitor and look to support the operational health of your team and products, aiming for resilience.

What you'll do:

• Lead, develop and grow a high performing team through effective hiring, coaching, mentoring, and by setting a clear direction that aligns their work with Xero’s Technology and strategic objectives.
• Driving continuous improvement through proactive reviewing, developing and implementing best practice ways of working.
• Ensure your team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, proactively identifying and addressing blockers to maintain momentum.
• Establish and maintain accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems within your team. You'll be responsible for your team providing informed estimates, delivery forecasting, capacity planning, and associated reporting.
• Working with your peers in Product, Design and your engineering team, contribute to the development of clear roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes.
• Maintain a current and comprehensive knowledge of engineering technologies relevant to Xero’s software applications. Stay up-to-date with emerging engineering practices, techniques and frameworks.

What you'll bring with you:

• In depth experience of managing software delivery and engineering teams using Lean-Agile techniques.
• Excellent grasp of modern software delivery practices and software development life cycle.
• Strong execution skills, consistently driving initiatives to successful completion
• Comfort with ambiguity and can effectively lead and guide your team in dynamic and evolving environments
• Proven experience in coaching and mentoring engineering teams
• No prior experience in working with AI product delivery is required, but you must have a strong interest in building AI products 

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.