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 role and team
At Xero, the Small Business Experience team builds and maintains core functionality and guidelines in order to power a consistent user experience for millions globally. We collaborate with product teams to ensure intuitive and beautiful software, championing efficiency and scalability.
We’re looking for a Group Product Manager to drive the overall product strategy and execution for Xero’s front-end experience. This newly created role is a grass roots management position with future scope to grow the team.
What you'll do
- Drive product strategy and a cohesive narrative for your product area.
- Lead your team to develop and execute the product roadmap.
- Coach team members and elevate product management capability in your team and the wider division.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and other product teams to execute the overall product strategy for your area.
- Deeply understand your external and internal customers, and drive shared understanding of target segments across your team and stakeholders.
- Be an effective spokesperson for the product, communicating effectively with executives and other stakeholders.
- Stay abreast of the latest trends in the industry.
- Develop and implement processes and governance to drive internal adoption of your products.
What you'll bring with you
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills to work horizontally across our business to drive adoption and accountability of products.
- Willingness to be very hands on with the product work, alongside management of your product team.
- Significant experience in creating and operationalising new governance structures and processes.
- Understands how to build and scale reusable systems (design systems experience is a plus).
- Priorisation and decision making to pick the highest priority roadmap items across the entire product portfolio to avoid siloing and ensure the right initiatives are chosen.
- Able to drive outcomes without significant supervision, whilst shaping the product strategy for the best path across multiple teams, aligning vision and execution at scale.
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, free medical insurance, 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.