Senior Product Manager - Xero Tax Product

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.

Xero’s Tax team helps small businesses & their advisors meet their tax needs effortlessly. Tax is a critical part of Xero’s small business platform and a major focus to win our accounting and bookkeeping partners.

As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll lead empowered product teams of engineers, product owner, business analysts and designers to ensure a beautiful experience for Canadian businesses to handle their sales tax requirements. It’s a big opportunity space that you and your team can make a real difference in. 

You’ll need to engage with customers including small businesses, accountants and bookkeepers to understand their needs, pain points and the opportunities they represent for business management and compliance purposes. The focus for you and the team is defining and growing measurable product market fit for Canada Sales tax. 

- Work across product delivery teams to ensure delivery of changes that integrate well with the wider set of products and technologies in the Xero suite

- Work with design, research, strategy, data, and product marketing teams to drive feature penetration and undertake competitor research to uncover customer needs and new product value propositions, delivering quality software with amazing user experiences that solve real customer problems

- Own, refine, and communicate the longer term vision for your Product

- Most importantly, you’ll cultivate a fun, rewarding, innovative and outcome-focussed culture that lives and breathes Xero values

- Previous experience as a Product Manager 

- Ideally experience in a SaaS environment but other comparable technical exposure will also be considered

- Experienced in taking large complex products to market, leading working across several delivery teams to ensure loveable products are delivered to customers on time and has made a measurable positive impact

- Quickly able to come up to speed and become an expert in accounting and bookkeeping workflows

- Working with designers and developers to rapidly ideate, refine and build and ship SaaS products

- Demonstrated experience in defining product roadmaps and strategic planning

- The ability to communicate, build strong relationships, manage stakeholders, facilitate and collaborate to smooth the path of your product and your delivery team across the business through to market launch

- Things are constantly changing around here so you'll also have the ability to break down complex problems, deliver real-world business outcomes and handle those changing priorities

- Love of building beautiful, quality software, coupled with a knowledge of design thinking.

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 and offer a competitive remuneration package including shares and life insurance, in addition to your base salary.

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 continuing to grow and so are the opportunities to join us!

You can choose to perform this role:

- In our #beautiful office of Wellington

- Flexibly, through a hybrid of in office and remote working styles.

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