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Senior Product Designer 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.

Senior Product Designers at Xero are responsible for designing beautiful, enabling and meaningful experiences that solve genuine customer problems. As a seasoned designer you’ll work closely with Product and Engineering on med-large scale projects within a product area of a portfolio.

The Xero Payroll Design team is growing to support an exciting long term vision. Solving high impact problems that simplify the complexity of Payroll for small businesses to pay their people correctly and with confidence.

In this role, you’ll be working on features that support customers through complex legislative changes. Helping manage the calculations for tax, superannuation and leave balances. But Payroll is more than just numbers and software. It’s about real people with real lives. You’ll get to work in a global team alongside ten plus other Product Designers in a highly collaborative environment and partner closely with Research, Content, Product, and Engineering to drive product strategy and craft #beautiful end-to-end experiences

What you'll do:

Promote the value of design and collaborative practice across spheres of influence and participation
Display strong visual design skills to complement your existing processes and problem solving so you can successfully interpret and grow the XUI design system
Dive headfirst into research, working with our established team to identify and communicate findings horizontally across all teams.
Contribute to the definition and articulation of ‘the problem’ – challenging assumptions and 'pre-set' thinking around solutions, agreeing the purpose, principles and vision
Create frameworks (read wireframes low/high-fi, visual frameworks, content/data models etc) which articulate the components, journeys and elements required to solve 'the problem'
Explore ideal future concepts and identify new interaction solutions and patterns that meet customer needs in a better way
Develop phased design solutions that bridge the gap between a future state and current patterns, XUI design system and other relevant constraints and considerations
Create prototypes which tangibly demonstrate a proposed concept or solution

What you'll bring with you:

Experience working with remote teams.
Demonstrated design ability with a focus on interaction and visual design.
Demonstrated discovery skills and understanding of UX methodologies
A passion for quality critique and fostering design uplift
Strong interpersonal skills, relationship building & stakeholder management skills
A self starter, showing initiative and good work management skills
Curiosity and a willingness to lean into a complex domain and problems
Track record of innovating and delivering high quality design experiences
Track record of solving customers' problems through design thinking and execution
Excellent communication skills
Experience working on large design projects
Experience building and iterating on a product or experiences based on usage patterns, user feedback and an evolving strategic landscape
A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality design outcomes, contributing to user experience and business value
Experience across the entire design process, with mastery in executing elegant interfaces

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. Xero will work with anyone who is not vaccinated, or prefers not to disclose their vaccination status, to determine what reasonable accommodations can be provided to ensure their role can be performed safely.

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