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Product Owner

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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.

The LOCATE team has joined Xero to help us enhance our existing inventory solution in Xero, so our customers can better manage their inventory and improve your financial performance. You'll be working with a cross-functional team of great engineers and designers tasked with this enhancement and integration.

In this role you will have a strong reliance on championing our customers needs, understanding what will drive success for Xero, being able to provide leadership through ambiguity, and help the team plan and operate accordingly all the while navigating the evolution of this product.
Drawing on your problem solving and leadership skillset, as well as your effective stakeholder management will be essential to be successful within this position. A mindset of ownership, accountability, curiosity and customer-centric prioritisation will be most valuable

Day to day you will:

  • Work closely with their Product Manager and other Product Owners to ensure alignment with the global Xero roadmap.
  • Have an understanding of the demands for features and enhancements. This includes listening to and interacting with leadership teams, product managers, sales and marketing, product teams and customers.
  • Research and analyse potential solutions and improvements that drive the most value for customers and how they can be delivered.
  • Own the delivery of the roadmap, product planning, and requirements for new features and improvements. Leading a product team across each phase of the product delivery lifecycleBe able to prioritise feature requests, enhancements and bug fixes into an achievable roadmap.
  • Collaborate closely with the wider product team to align shared priorities and outcomes.
  • Work closely with your team to define scope, milestones, and ensure on-time and in-scope delivery of products.
  • Maintain strong communications with all teams at Xero, in particular, the Development, Design, Documentation and Training teams

What you'll bring:

  • Advanced relationship management skills, experienced in working with a variety of business units (all with competing priorities)
  • Great communication skills that help you convery big and complex concepts to different audiences and stakeholders
  • Proven analytical skills, efficient decision making skills and the confidence to work in ambiguity
  • Experience with exploring customer problems and defining how they can be solved to deliver business value.
  • Passion for product management and delivering user-centric products
  • Experience in product thinking and working with agile product teams not essential but beneficial
What you can look forward to

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!

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

Please note that we currently require all 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.  Xero will work with anyone who is not vaccinated, or prefers not to disclose their vaccination status, to determine if any reasonable accommodations can be provided to ensure their role can be performed safely whilst the restriction is in place.

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 Full-time 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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