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Product Manager job at Xero

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.

How you’ll make an impact

As a Product Manager you will be responsible for driving customer and business value through ownership of new and existing products. You will manage products end-to-end, from early-stage research and ideation, through to implementation and improvement over time. Your impact will be measured by key commercial and customer success metrics. You will be comfortable working autonomously where appropriate, with the support of your product leadership team.

What you’ll do

Actively network across Xero to understand how products fit into Xero's strategy, objectives and future
Work directly with the customer to conduct research, collect insights or validate understanding, getting support from the broader product function as required.
Use customer data and insights particularly in assessing value and viability risks, to inform product roadmap and planning
Define the scope of the customer problem and frame possible solutions to test, validate and refine with the support from relevant team members
Build strong relationships with the broader product function’s teams, collaborating effectively with your internal stakeholders
Participate in developing a strategy for the product line, including securing funding, resourcing
Taking an active role in the annual and quarterly OKR process, with support from product leadership
Take responsibility for managing risks (in line with Xero Risk Management Standard) arising from non-functional concerns including security, privacy, regulatory change and compliance, accuracy, responsible data use and availability: consulting with stakeholders and leading trade-off decisions
Develop product roadmaps to execute on the product strategy, and can manage a product to its roadmap
Take responsibility for establishing team delivery cadence and rituals, and facilitating these as required
Develop an effective release strategy, with the support from relevant team members
Work collaboratively with the product function to ensure an effective launch
Monitor the overall commercial & customer results of the product line, working with other product team members to support as required
Monitor and analyse the ongoing performance of a product
Determine where improvements to the existing product can be made or scheduled
Provide support between stages of product development to ensure continuity and cohesiveness, and alignment of product to strategy and roadmap
Manage a product across the end-to-end lifecycle (e.g. launch through to sunset) to ensure maintenance and support throughout the life of the product
Work as a tie-breaking decision-maker, ensuring where the product team cannot get to consensus, the product manager will weigh up all inputs and make the decision
Support recruitment of new Xero's as required, ensuring team members are high quality, fit Xero's culture, and are on-boarded effectively

Success looks like

Your work is contributing to team OKRs
You are responsible for the establishment of OKRs for your product
You understand our customers and their problems
Your roadmap is being executed according to plan and you are focused on the most important initiatives
All individuals working on and around your product understand what’s being built, why it’s being built and when it needs to be delivered
You have strong relationships with your stakeholders who are engaged and have a thorough understanding of your vision, strategy and roadmap
You have clearly defined product success for your team, with key customer and commercial metrics articulated and constantly measured
You demonstrate and amplify Xero’s Values

What you’ll bring with you

Critical capabilities

Love customer problems:

Plans, runs, documents and synthesises user research initiatives using standard frameworks to deliver impactful insights for Xero
Uses multiple techniques to interrogate customer evidence to accurately identify and define problems customers care about.
Develops and justifies well thought through MVP/MLP solutions to solve customer problems
Designs and executes experiments to validate solution options with quantitative and qualitative evidence

Look to the future:

Clearly articulates the product’s value, functionality, and competitive industry trends, to act as a trusted source of information for the product/domain
Develops a product strategy and roadmap in line with Xero’s strategy to guide product decision-making and long-term goals
Generates new ideas to drive more innovative and creative products

Work the Xero way:

Effectively groups and prioritises stories, bugs and chores, managing both team capacity and release timeframes
Effectively applies and advocates for Xero’s PM ways of working to improve team operations
Effectively manages releases, including developing accompanying assets, to deliver incremental value to the customer

Demonstrate commercial acumen:

Accurately sizes market / segments by number of customers and financial value, relative to acquisition and pricing assumptions
Defines a product’s success criteria to align stakeholders to a shared idea of product success
Makes evidence-based decisions based on analysis of commercial, customer and product requirements to guide team progress

Do it together:

Facilitates meetings with predefined structures or scripts (e.g., stand ups, IPM’s, and retro’s) leading to clear actions for a team to progress with
Communicates effectively as a product evangelist across the entire product lifecycle foster alignment and buy-in to the product vision
Actively collaborates with other functions to drive successful collaboration on products and outcomes

Explore the data:

Conducts objective, rigorous and accurate analysis, making logical and defensible inferences where data is incomplete
Communicates complex data and insights with impact across both junior and senior stakeholders
Integrates data from multiple systems, sources, and people to deliver new insights to the team

Experience

Experience with agile processes in a software development environment
Demonstrated experience collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups to realise customer /commercial outcomes
Experience defining product roadmaps and long term planning
Ability to influence outcomes in a variety of contexts
Experience with accounting software desired but not a must
Understanding of the SaaS / Fintech / Accounting industry and / or adjacent sectors relevant to Xero
Demonstrated experience in managing and leading a cross-functional team to deliver customer / business outcomes

Why Xero

With over 25 days of 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.

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. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.

Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.

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