Senior Product Manager - Foundations & Enablement

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.

As a Senior Product Manager in Foundations & Enablement your primary customer will be our product teams. You will build and lead a team that is focussed enabling our engineers to deliver value to Xero customers quickly, while ensuring we have a secure and stable platform that our product teams and Xero customers can rely on and trust.

Foundations & Enablement plays an integral role in Connected Workplaces being able to deliver on our vision, to empower people in small business to build thriving workplaces.

- Develop an energetic team of Xeros, ensuring they experience personal growth and have fulfilling careers

- Be a critical member of the Product Management peer group who ensure alignment of our products globally, role-model culture and create a sense of ‘one team’ across Connected Workplaces

- Own the vision and strategy for a complex set of foundational products and services that enables Xero to positively impact small business owners, their advisors and their employees

- Champion the product and engineering teams as your customer, working towards providing  a world class developer experience

- Bring a product mindset to platform and technology problems, and help embed this way of thinking in our engineering teams

- Drive success through methodical validation of a product roadmap that has our product and engineering teams at the forefront.

- Demonstrated experience in people leadership with a solid track record of getting the best from people

- Experience solving real customer needs through robust product discovery methodologies

- Proven success managing the full product lifecycle

- Stakeholder management and coordination across complex businesses

- Strong experience as a product manager taking a holistic view of your product (customer, commercial, competitor, delivery and macro trends)

- Demonstrable experience collaborating with a diverse stakeholder group to realise commercial outcomes

- Solid understanding of SaaS business models

Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you’re a great fit for this position.