Job description
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
About the team
Our app ecosystem is a strategic asset to Xero. It’s one of the largest app stores for business apps in the world! We connect millions of small business customers (and their advisors) to over 1000 apps, building value added integrations to the Xero platform.
Our developer and app community are engaged, innovative, and love working with Xero! We have big plans to keep growing that ecosystem for our customers and partners. Check out the Xero App Store and our developer centre.
About the role
We’re seeking somebody to join the team on a 12-month fixed term contract.
Developer Evangelists participate in discussions with external development teams to ensure integration best practices during implementation, and build relationships with various apps and developers.
Through creative developer content, developer evangelists inspire developers to build on Xero’s platform. The developer evangelists team engage with developers through our devblog, youtube and more.
Day to day, you’ll help developers leverage Xero’s API to create best in class business solutions. Working alongside other evangelists, product teams, and developer engagement teams in establishing great partnerships and improving the developer experience.
What you’ll do:
- Onboard new apps into Xero’s app partner program. This may include: answering technical questions from app partners; certifying integrations to ensure they meet our high standards; employing analytical skills and creativity to solve for complex use cases.
- Manage relationships with various app partners through Salesforce, email, and meetings - Aiming to drive awareness of Xero APIs and app partner program.
- Engage and educate developers through videos, blog posts, code samples on Github, and present technical content to developers on webinars and at live events.
What you’ll bring:
- Self motivated and team oriented - Able to work both autonomously and effectively as part of a geographically dispersed team.
- Excellent communication and technical writing skills - Ability to discuss technical topics in a clear and concise way, confident in conversations about APIs, accounting and driving commercial success.
- Passion for inspiring developers through creative code and content - Experience with basic video editing and other content creation fundamentals.
- Experience participating in developer communities online or in person (ideally including presenting technical topics to a developer audience preferred but not essential).
- Any formal training or understanding of accounting concepts would be highly beneficial.
- Any previous exposure to software engineering would be highly beneficial.
Please note this is a 12-month fixed term contract role. Applications will close Friday 18th July.
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family. Health insurance, life insurance, and income protection.
We offer wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value.
You’ll do the best work of your life at Xero!
