Engineering Manager, AI Products & Platforms

Xero; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Machine Learning & AI team in Sydney. You will lead a high-performing group building and operating AI-powered experiences across Xero, spanning customer-facing AI, product workflows and backend platforms.

You will balance delivery with engineering quality, champion MLOps and AI-native practices, and shape technical direction while growing the team and capabilities for scalable AI products.

Qualifications

• Leads, coaches and develops engineers to grow team capability.
• Demonstrates strong judgment across architecture, system design and trade-offs.
• Translates business goals into executable engineering plans.
• Delivers roadmaps reliably in dynamic environments.
• Experience building production-grade software; hands-on when needed.
• Bonus: experience with ML, generative AI or AI-powered products.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing, inclusive team of engineers across ML/AI initiatives.
• Build and operate AI-powered experiences and capabilities across Xero.
• Ensure reliability, security and scalability of production AI systems.

Skills

Team leadership

Architecture judgement

Roadmap delivery

Hands-on coding

ML & AI familiarity

Job description

Xero is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Machine Learning & AI team in Sydney. You will lead a high-performing group building and operating AI-powered experiences across Xero, spanning customer-facing AI, product workflows and backend platforms.

You will balance delivery with engineering quality, champion MLOps and AI-native practices, and shape technical direction while growing the team and capabilities for scalable AI products.