Salary Range: 259200 to 285100 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers to develop and maintain high-quality payroll services for our clients.
• Develop and implement strategies to ensure the successful delivery of payroll services, including setting goals and timelines, managing resources and budget, and identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Foster a collaborative and positive team dynamic, providing guidance and support to team members and promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Utilize your strong technical background to provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, ensuring that projects are completed efficiently and effectively oversee the planning, design, and implementation of new features and enhancements to our payroll services, ensuring they meet the needs and expectations of our clients.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and new technologies, and apply this knowledge to continuously improve our payroll services.
• Manage and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including cross-functional teams, clients, and external partners, to ensure alignment and effective communication throughout the development process.
• Oversee the hiring, training, and development of new team members, and provide ongoing mentorship and support to help them reach their full potential.
• Monitor and analyze key metrics and performance indicators to assess the success of our payroll services and make data-driven decisions to drive continuous improvement.
• Work with other engineering managers and leaders to share knowledge, best practices, and resources, and support the overall growth and success of the engineering team.

What Success Looks Like:

• Divisions have a shared understanding of the cross-team plan including, the priorities, work sequencing and how they collaborate to enable more effective delivery of products that our customers love.
• Assess risks and issues - ensure they are are actively managed; The right people are connected to remove the concerns quickly.
• Our Product & Technology teams are well supported to do their best work, as their plans are clear and they are minimally blocked, which enables them to bring quality products to our customers more effectively.
• Senior Leaders are aware of the state of our key initiatives and are contributing to the enablement of the work, as needed (ie blocker removal).

What You’ll bring with you:

• Collaboration. You are an expert at leading the building of plans for complex, multi-team execution.  You are recognized for your ability to co-create plans in a manner that enriches shared ownership.  You know how to spot risk and coordinate mitigations and are quick to respond to issues, pulling the right people together to resolve the problem.
• Technical Expertise.  You are comfortable to contribute in technical dialogue and are able to build a solid understanding of the technology components that comprise a product.  You are able to use your technical knowledge to detect and mitigate challenges and risks in delivering programs at Xero.  Past experience as an engineer is an asset.
• Agile mindset. You are deeply familiar with agile concepts and you are able to run programs that ensure agility principles can thrive.
• Influencing Skills. You can influence at all levels of the organisation, from pod to product and engineering leadership teams through various influencing techniques. You can convert multiple perspectives into compelling recommendations to move a program forward.
• Exceptional Communications. You confidently communicate the state of your Initiative, both written and verbal, and can adapt your language and communication style to suit any audience. You are comfortable leaning into crucial conversations from the pod to PELT level.
• Self-Directed and proactive. You thrive in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment. You take ownership and follow through on your commitments