About the role

VP Engineering leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions at Xero. Ensuring strategic alignment in building and enabling small businesses with technology.

Responsibilities

Lead, grow, and manage a leadership team and their engineering teams
Provide technical oversight across the engineering portfolio
Ensure engineering teams actively measuring, monitoring, and continuously improving performance
Align strategies of building and testing software
Build and lead an effective team of engineering leaders and practitioners
Effectively manage the engineering team's budget and provide adequate support for product SLOs
Ensure cohesive understanding of product group strategy and support prioritization for engineering initiatives
Report on technical initiatives for stakeholders
Advocate ongoing commitment to enablement strategy for software
Lead initiatives to improve onboarding, training, and knowledge sharing
Follow Xero's people management processes for direct and indirect reports

15+ years with on and with large scale technology systems, at least 7 of them leading teams at scale
Strong technical foundation and demonstrated experience building and scaling web-scale systems
Demonstrated experience in design and implementation of data systems
Experience with large organization management (150+ Engineers) across global sites
Experience working with legacy systems as well as launching new systems