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.
About the team
Small Business Profiles is critical to the future growth and scale of the Xero platform, ensuring customer knowledge is at the centre of our pursuit to become the most insightful and trusted Small Business platform. Both share a common purpose: the systematic support of our business strategy, through customer knowledge.
How you’ll make an impact
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for executing on our product vision, strategy and roadmap. You will work alongside a talented engineering pod. Your skillful product leadership and management of the pod’s backlog enables the pod to deliver compelling products and services that solve real problems for our customers. You are comfortable switching gear between being tactical and looking into the future state from a product vision perspective.
What you’ll bring with you
- Proven experience championing strategic priorities and helping others relate to and align with it.
- Previous Product Management experience — with a toolbox of modern product discovery practices to draw upon.
- Previous experience in SAAS domain is ideal
- Ideally, proven experience using a range of metrics to monitor the success and health of products and services. Proven experience of making evidence-based decisions.
- A solid track record of addressing customer needs. Ideally, proven experience connecting teams closer with customers (and not just be a proxy for them).
- Excellent stakeholder management skills. Proven experience building meaningful, collaborative relationships across all levels of the business. Ideally, proven experience advocating for/evangelising a product or service with customers and stakeholders.
- Proven experience leading a team through influencing and persuasion, without formal authority. Ideally, proven experience working with innovative software development projects at scale.
Critical Competencies
- Great communication skills. Speaks and writes clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative, and relying on jargon.
- Growth mindset. Has a growth mindset — understands that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Demonstrates a love of learning and resilience to adversity that is essential for great accomplishment.
- High EQ. Is self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic with great interpersonal skills.
- Product Management. Knowledgeable in product management. Has a toolkit of modern product discovery practices to draw upon.
Why Xero?
At Xero we support many types of flexible working arrangements that allow you to balance your work, your life and your passions. We offer a great remuneration package including shares plus a range of leave options to suit your well-being. Our work environment encourages continuous improvement and career development and you’ll get to work with the latest technology.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. So, from the moment you step through our doors, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
Xero strongly encourages employees and contractors to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to work from a Xero office, or engage in any face-to-face Xero business.