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.
Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the platform team to support a number of platform initiatives that cut across the company.
We’re looking for someone who’s strategic, has strong product and design sense, works great cross-functionally, and a hustle “move fast” mindset.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and champion a vision & strategy for your area, ensuring alignment with overall company strategy, business objectives, and platform needs.
- Work closely with clients to develop overall strategy, understand needs and priorities, and lead alignment on the plan ahead
- Drive execution by partnering closely with engineering throughout the product lifecycle
- Communicate to stakeholders and leads proactively and clearly, to ensure alignment and flag risks or decisions needed early
- Anticipate future needs of the platform and the business, ensuring the platform scales and evolves efficiently and proactively
- Define, monitor, and report on relevant metrics for platform success. Clearly articulate the impact and value of platform investments to stakeholders
Key skills needed:
- 3+ years of product management experience. Prior platform product management experience is a plus
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills. Ability to influence and align teams.
- Can get technically deep and engage engineering on detailed engineering design options and trade-off decisions
- Strong execution skills, consistently deliver high quality platform capabilities on time.
- Excellent ability to prioritise a complex backlog, balancing competing needs
- Hustle and bias for action
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with a structured approach to identifying complex and ambiguous problems within the platform domain, breaking them down, and devising effective and scalable solutions
- Growth mindset
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.
