About the Role
Shape the future of AI powered customer experiences at Zip, leading teams building intelligent self service that will transform how millions of customers interact with us.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams, creating an environment where people thrive, grow and consistently deliver exceptional outcomes.
- Shape the engineering strategy for our Agentic Process & Self Service Squad, partnering closely with Product, Design and Data & AI leaders.
- Deliver scalable AI powered customer and merchant experiences that simplify complex journeys through intelligent self service and automation.
- Build secure, reliable and scalable engineering platforms that support AI enabled customer experiences at enterprise scale.
- Champion modern engineering practices, helping teams adopt AI technologies that improve productivity, quality and delivery.
- Guide technical direction and architectural decisions across complex engineering initiatives.
- Develop Engineering Managers and senior engineers, building leadership capability and strengthening succession across the organisation.
- Drive engineering excellence through strong delivery practices, operational performance and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate across Technology to strengthen engineering consistency, innovation and customer outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams within a modern product led technology organisation.
- A strong background delivering customer facing AI enabled products, intelligent self service platforms or conversational experiences.
- Strong software engineering expertise across cloud platforms, distributed systems and modern engineering practices.
- Experience working with technologies such as LLM orchestration frameworks, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases or enterprise AI platforms.
- Knowledge of AI safety, evaluation frameworks and building secure, responsible AI solutions within regulated environments.
- Experience developing Engineering Managers and building high performing engineering cultures.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across Engineering, Product, Design and Data & AI.
- A passion for balancing engineering quality, delivery excellence and customer outcomes.
- A leadership style that empowers others, builds capability and creates a culture of continuous improvement.
- A mindset that embraces AI and new tools to adapt, learn and grow.
- An aptitude for identifying and managing risks.
- Our values in your DNA: Customer First, Own It, Stronger Together and Change the Game
Skills
- Modern software engineering
- AI enabled products
- High performing engineering teams
- Intelligent self service
- Cloud platforms
- Distributed systems
- Modern engineering practices
- LLM orchestration frameworks
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Vector databases
- Enterprise AI platforms
- AI safety
- Evaluation frameworks
- Building secure, responsible AI solutions
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days paid leave annually, including birthday leave and quarterly wellbeing days
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, and 4 weeks for supporting carers
- Family support policies including miscarriage bereavement leave and domestic violence leave
- Mental health and wellness initiatives, including $299 annual wellbeing allowance, free access for you and family members to our EAP service Sonder, discounted private health insurance, and great rates on fitness sessions through ClassPass
- 2 days paid volunteering leave per year
- Access to the Flare Benefits Hub and Novated Leasing for savings across lifestyle, essentials and wellbeing
- Fee-free Zip products, and discounts with Zip merchant partners
- Team social events, epic offices, free breakfast daily, and weekly free lunches
About the Company
- Zip Co Limited (ASX: ZIP) is a digital financial services company, offering innovative, people-centred products that bring customers and merchants together.
- Operating in two core markets - Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and the US, Zip offers point-of-sale credit and digital payment services, connecting millions of customers with its global network of tens of thousands of merchants.
- We’re proud to be a values-led business and our values - Customer First, Own it, Stronger Together and Change the Game - guide us in everything we do.
Equal Opportunity
- Be a part of a team that reflects the diversity of our customers
- We pride ourselves on being a workplace that provides equal opportunities to people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, veteran status, and everything else that makes you unique.
- Equally, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know If there are any adjustments that need to be made to ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.
