Lead Product Manager - AI Enablement at Xero

Xero; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero in Wellington is seeking a senior platform product manager to shape how an entire technology organization delivers AI-native value. You will build shared platforms, guard rails, gateways, and agents that reduce toil and enable teams to move faster.

You will partner with Engineering, Security, Data and other teams, publish quarterly roadmaps, and align stakeholders on strategy and priorities. The role offers a hybrid work model with office days to foster collaboration, while enabling

Qualifications

• This role requires strong platform product management experience across developer tools, infrastructure, data or AI.
• Ability to connect dots across multiple phases and teams to align initiatives.
• Translate complex technical possibilities into clear outcomes and investment decisions.
• Discovery, delivery and measurement are outcome-focused in approach.
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving technology; resilient in scaling experiments.
• Curiosity and pragmatism drive practical, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Shape AI-native delivery by building shared platforms and operating models.
• Drive cross-team initiatives spanning strategy, execution and impact.
• Publish quarterly roadmaps, governance, and baseline adoption metrics.
• Align stakeholders on strategy and priorities across engineering, security and data.
• Move high-value workflows from pilot to repeatable, scalable adoption.

Skills

Platform PM

AI integration

Systems thinking

Stakeholder alignment

Discovery & delivery

Job description

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

The role / impact

This is a rare chance to shape how an entire technology organization works in the AI era. Rather than shipping another standalone AI feature, you'll build the shared platforms and operating models that make AI-native delivery possible across Xero, spanning AI harnesses that help teams build faster with the right guard rails, gateways that makes using models safe and efficient, and agents that help reduce toil. You'll drive initiatives spanning across the full delivery lifecycle, combining strategy, execution and measurable organizational impact. You'll drive decision-making across products and teams, connect work happening in different phases of development, and train and coach others to build strong AI product practice. In line with our value to Go Bold, you'll set goals that stretch the team and help rethink, and not just solve, the problems in front of you.

The team / how they connect

This group shapes how products connect to Xero's wider AI strategy and objectives, and looks after the tools and ways of working that help thousands of Xeros deliver value. You'll build close relationships with Engineering, Security, Data and several other teams, keeping decisions joined up across the business. The team is currently working on / Initially, you will focus on Building and scaling the shared capabilities behind Xero's AI-native delivery model. Aligning stakeholders on strategy and priorities, and setting baselines for adoption, delivery speed, cost, quality and technology health. Publishing quarterly roadmaps, operating model and governance approach for the initiatives. Moving the highest-value workflows from pilot into repeatable adoption

Where and how you can work

We support a flexible working model that empowers you to balance your professional and personal life. You will have the option to work in a hybrid capacity, combining the focus of remote work with the collaboration of our office spaces and team boost days to foster connection and alignment.

Here are some of the things we are looking for, for this role

• You bring strong platform product management experience, ideally across developer tools, infrastructure, data or AI.
• You think in systems, comfortably joining the dots across various phases and teams.
• Translating complex technical possibilities into clear outcomes and investment decisions comes naturally to you.
• Your approach to discovery, delivery and measurement is outcome-focused, and you know how to prove what's working.
• Ambiguity, evolving technology and incomplete information don't throw you off course.
• Curiosity and pragmatism sit alongside the resilience to turn early experiments into scalable products.

At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team.