Vice President of Engineering (Reporting & Insights)

Role Overview

Vice President of Engineering (Reporting & Insights) at Xero (full remote). Lead the evolution of a reporting product used by millions of customers globally, shifting it toward an AI-native approach.

Key Missions

• Reimagine the reporting experience and modernize how customers access insights.
• Act as a founding leadership presence in Vancouver, building a new engineering and product hub from the ground up and defining how data is presented to customers.
• Architect an AI-first reporting stack that reduces reliance on operational databases to improve global scalability.
• Integrate and coordinate specialized global teams working across data engineering and product delivery.

Requirements

• Interest in how data products manifest for end-users, balancing technical rigor with strong customer experience.
• Deep expertise leading large-scale data systems where precision and accuracy are critical.
• Proven track record hiring and growing high-performing technical teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strategic ability to guide the transition from legacy systems to modern AI-native architecture.
• Leadership style that enables others and fosters technical mastery, autonomy, and continuous learning.
• Experience building or modernizing complex platforms.

Nice-to-haves

• Not explicitly stated.