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Product Owner (PaaS) - Fixed Term

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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:

Xero’s PaaS group is responsible for building and maintaining critical applications and services consumed throughout Xero globally. We write and maintain services central to keeping Xero online and scaling to millions of customers. We pride ourselves on our emphasis on software performance and scalability, our desire to innovate and improve the way we work.

About the role:

As the Product Owner in the PaaS Compute team, you will be working with a high performing team of engineers building a world-class infrastructure for Xero. The PaaS Compute team enables our customers by implementing easy to adopt and use solutions to accelerate product delivery. We operate in a fast-paced environment and utilise a platform as a product mindset to deliver customer value as fast as possible.

You will be responsible for executing Platform-as-a-Service’s product vision, strategy and roadmap. You will work alongside a talented, collaborative and supportive engineering pod maintaining the standard for engineering excellence at Xero. 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 will identify bottlenecks in team processes and push for automation and self-service. You will work with external teams to improve existing technology, while balancing their interests with the needs of the pod.

This is a fixed term opportunity to cover parental leave from September until March 2023.

What you’ll bring with you:

  • A degree of technical experience in a fast paced environment.
  • Proven experience championing strategic priorities and helping others relate to and align with it. 
  • Ideally, proven Product Ownership experience — with a toolbox of modern product discovery practices to draw upon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ideally, proven experience working with innovative software development projects at scale
  • Great communication skills.
  • Above all, a growth mindset & a positive can do attitude.

What does success look like?

  • You have a clear understanding of Xero’s strategic priorities and how your products and services align to it. You have articulated a compelling product vision. The pod knows what’s important, how they are contributing, and why what they’re doing matters. 
  • Product, design and engineering are considered side-by-side: They are all involved in product discovery.
  • You and the pod actively seek out metrics to validate a hypothesis and measure results. You enable the pod to instrument their work so they immediately understand how their products are being used and ultimately whether customer and business value is being created. 
  • You have built healthy relationships with your stakeholders. Key stakeholders are involved in product discovery activities.
Why you should join Xero

Xero is continuing to grow and so are the opportunities to join us!
You can choose to perform this role:
- In one of our #beautiful offices
- Flexibly, through a hybrid of in office and remote working styles
- Permanently Remote from anywhere in NZ

It’s a diverse and inclusive environment, with people who will respect, challenge, support and mentor you to do the best work of your life. We’re a place where innovation and change are not only encouraged but also celebrated. We value our people and want them to enjoy and take pride in their work.

We’re very supportive of flexible working arrangements, offer a competitive remuneration package and we have a culture we’re proud of. Whether you're after a workplace with a social vibe, or a workplace which understands your family is priority - Xero is all of that and more.

Xero is a Rainbow Tick certified employer.

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. 

Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you’re a great fit for this position.
Questions & answers for this position
  • What is the type of contract for this position?
    The contract for this position is a Fixed-term contract
  • Is telecommuting possible for this position?
    No, telecommuting is not possible for this position
About Xero
Xero is a New Zealand–domiciled public technology company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
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Industry
Accounting, Billing
Founded
2006
Size
1K-5K employees

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