Product Design Manager - Practice & Growth

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

You will be managing a team of Product Designers, providing mentoring and coaching, so that they can do their best work and continue to develop their skills and expertise.

Managers work closely with their Design Directors to share in the strategy work and conversations. You’ll actively support the work of the designers in your team, applying your knowledge and skills and building strong relationships with engineering leads and product managers to help influence prioritisation of work and roadmap items.

As part of the wider leadership team you’ll also share a responsibility for aspects of making the design team better, such as: Helping deliver the team’s professional development programme, and creating better processes across the team like continuously improving ways we work with development teams

Working at Xero will provide you with a diverse and inclusive environment alongside people who will respect, challenge, support and mentor you. Who says you can't have fun while you do the best work of your life?

We see the value in work-life balance, many of us take full advantage of our flexible working arrangements, so whether you like to get a surf in before work, like to head home in time to pick up the kids or you just like working from the comfort of your own home now and then, we want to support you.

We trust you to build your career to the best of your ability and we will support your hunger to learn with training and career mentorship, to help you flourish. Our facilities and PX teams work hard to give us great workspaces with all the tech company perks so join us and experience our awesome culture!

Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you’re a great fit for this position.