About the role and teamAt 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.
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