Customer Incident Manager

JobSpace; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero is seeking an incident management specialist in Wellington, New Zealand, to orchestrate major and minor incidents from the customer's perspective. You will work across engineering, product, support, and leadership to balance immediate crisis response with strategic problem solving, ensuring customers experience minimal disruption and clarity on what is happening.

This hybrid role requires building the systems and processes that prevent issues, leading cross-functional teams, and

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead teams through high-pressure situations.
• Proven experience managing major incidents or complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Own incident management end-to-end from investigation to post-incident reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to implement fixes and long-term solutions.
• Manage customer-facing communications during incidents to keep stakeholders informed.

Job description

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When incidents happen, every second counts. You'll be the key orchestrator managing major and minor incidents from the customer's perspective—working across teams to find solutions fast and keep everyone informed. You'll balance immediate crisis response with strategic problem-solving, ensuring customers experience minimal disruption and have clarity on what's happening and why.

You'll own incident management end-to-end: from investigation and impact assessment through to post-incident reviews and recommendations that prevent problems from happening again. You'll build the systems and processes that help teams respond confidently and reduce incidents before they occur, making you instrumental in building customer trust.

The Team And How They Connect

The incident management team works at the heart of Xero's customer operations, coordinating across engineering, product, support, and leadership to respond to issues that affect our customers. They're problem-solvers who thrive in fast-paced environments, bringing rigour and human empathy to every incident response. The team collaborates across geographic regions and departments, treating every issue as an opportunity to strengthen Xero's resilience.

The Team Is Currently Working On / Initially, The Role May Focus On

• Building and refining incident management processes and incident registers to prevent issues before they occur
• Managing customer-facing communications during incidents to keep stakeholders informed and reassured
• Coordinating cross-functional teams to implement both short-term fixes and long-term solutions
• Post-incident reviews and recommendations that help reduce recurrence

Where And How You Can Work

This role has a hybrid working arrangement of 3 days working from our offices and 2 days working from home.

Here Are Some Of The Things We Are Looking For

You'll bring strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to make informed decisions and lead teams through high-pressure situations toward resolution.

You'll thrive on building relationships and collaborating effectively—your ability to influence across all levels and challenge assumptions respectfully makes you a natural leader in complex situations.

You'll demonstrate a genuine customer service mentality, ensuring every decision prioritises minimising customer impact and keeping them informed with clarity.

You'll bring proven experience managing major incidents or complex issues, alongside a track record of leading projects to successful delivery outcomes.

You'll Go Together by coordinating specialist teams across regions and bringing the right people to the table to solve problems—comfortable working autonomously but knowing when to collaborate.

You'll Go Fast by ship ideas, test solutions, and improve them—taking initiative and pushing forward in fast-paced, high-profile environments without waiting for perfect clarity.