xero · AU: Sydney (45 Clarence St)
ENGINEERING MANAGER - APPLIED AI THE ROLE AND ITS IMPACT You will lead and grow the Internal AI Accelerator team as it expands from its current core to a fully formed engineering squad. You will own the strategy, delivery, and roadmap for how Xero designs and delivers agentic AI workflows that eliminate manual toil, speed up decision-making, and generate measurable productivity gains. This means working directly with business leaders across G&A, Finance, P&C, and IT functions to co-build reusable AI patterns and governance frameworks that last. You will shape how Xero thinks about AI delivery long after your tenure, building playbooks and reference architectures that other teams can pick up and run with. What your engineers build goes into production and real people rely on it. One month you are partnering with finance, the next you are embedded in IT. You set the pace, you unblock the path, and you hold your team accountable to shipping. THE TEAM AND HOW THEY CONNECT The Internal AI Accelerator team is a small, high-impact crew of engineers embedded across Xero's business units. They partner directly with product, engineering, and business teams to design and ship AI workflows in weeks, not months. The team operates with a direct line to senior stakeholders and a genuine mandate to move fast. Together, you are genuinely curious about what works and what doesn't, learning openly from every project and sharing what you discover. THE TEAM IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON The team is expanding from a proof-of-concept phase into building at scale. You will focus on growing the engineering capability across multiple workstreams. Initially, your priorities will be: - Scaling agentic AI delivery across multiple business domains (finance, HR, support, operations) - Building reusable patterns, platforms, and governance frameworks that other teams can adopt - Designing and implementing the technical architecture for enterprise AI deployments - Establishing best practices for AI safety…
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