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Product Designer - Mobile job at Xero

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 & role:

We're looking for a Product Designer to join the team behind the Xero Accounting App (XAA) – our flagship mobile experience that helps small business owners stay on top of their finances, wherever they are. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mobile accounting at Xero, partnering with cross-functional peers across design, product, and engineering to drive high-quality outcomes. This is a individual contributor role where you'll bring your expertise and passion for mobile design to create beautiful native iOS and android experiences for our customers.

What you'll do

Design practice and thinking: You'll contribute to the Product Design vision by delivering consistent, high-quality designs. You'll advocate for design value and collaboration, conducting research to understand context and trends. You'll help define problems and create frameworks (wireframes, visual designs) to articulate solutions. Exploring future concepts and developing phased approaches while considering our design system and constraints will be key. You'll prototype ideas, collaborate for feedback, and partner with other designers for cohesive experiences. Designing for accessibility and developing smart interfaces are essential. You'll effectively communicate your work with cross-functional peers across product and engineering..
Design research and testing: You'll contribute to identifying opportunities for research and play a part in planning and conducting studies relevant to your product area. This includes participating in user research to truly understand our customers' goals and challenges, helping to analyze the findings, and joining in on user testing with our research teams.
Build strong cross-functional relationships: Developing strong relationships and influence across teams will be vital. You'll actively participate in cross-functional conversations and collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to ensure our solutions hit the sweet spot between user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. You'll also work alongside development teams during sprints to ensure the design vision is brought to life effectively and to troubleshoot any issues along the way.

What you'll bring with you

Experience designing for native iOS and android.
Experience working in a product-led environment will be favourable for this position.
Understanding of building and iterating products or experiences based on usage patterns & user feedback.
A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality design work, improving the user experience and contributing to business outcomes.
Skill and experience across the design process from uncovering customer needs and pain points, to executing elegant interfaces.

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.

Product Designer - Mobile

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