Description
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 role:
We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead the product management group responsible for Xero’s App Store Ecosystem. This role involves direct management of 3+ product managers, and collaboration with engineering, design and marketing peers across Xero’s Ecosystem division.
In this role you will own the product portfolio that powers our 3rd party App Ecosystem, including Xero’s App Store that enables our customers to find and integrate third-party software to run their business, the Billing Platform that powers application subscriptions, enabling developers to build and grow their businesses on Xero’s platform, and new explorations to enable 3rd party apps to integrate more closely into Xero’s core experience. You will provide oversight across your product portfolio, ensuring the right things are built at the right time and through doing so you’ll contribute to Xero achieving its goals, particularly Xero’s ongoing strategy to accelerate growth globally via our ecosystem of apps. By seizing key opportunities for your portfolio in terms of new product offerings & segments, you will generate competitive advantage and enable the division to grow faster.
With responsibility for a global product, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary and cross functional team around the world with high levels of complexity, ambiguity, dependencies and stakeholder management. People leadership experience and ability to navigate cross-team collaboration is a significant part of the role. You will lead, coach and mentor a talented team of product managers. Your skilful leadership will enable them, and their cross-functional partners, to deliver compelling products and services that solve real problems for our customers. This involves working across disciplines to ensure that your product strategy is aligned to Xero’s overall product vision and goals.
About the role:
We are looking for a Director of Product Management to lead the product management group responsible for Xero’s App Store Ecosystem. This role involves direct management of 3+ product managers, and collaboration with engineering, design and marketing peers across Xero’s Ecosystem division.
In this role you will own the product portfolio that powers our 3rd party App Ecosystem, including Xero’s App Store that enables our customers to find and integrate third-party software to run their business, the Billing Platform that powers application subscriptions, enabling developers to build and grow their businesses on Xero’s platform, and new explorations to enable 3rd party apps to integrate more closely into Xero’s core experience. You will provide oversight across your product portfolio, ensuring the right things are built at the right time and through doing so you’ll contribute to Xero achieving its goals, particularly Xero’s ongoing strategy to accelerate growth globally via our ecosystem of apps. By seizing key opportunities for your portfolio in terms of new product offerings & segments, you will generate competitive advantage and enable the division to grow faster.
With responsibility for a global product, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary and cross functional team around the world with high levels of complexity, ambiguity, dependencies and stakeholder management. People leadership experience and ability to navigate cross-team collaboration is a significant part of the role. You will lead, coach and mentor a talented team of product managers. Your skilful leadership will enable them, and their cross-functional partners, to deliver compelling products and services that solve real problems for our customers. This involves working across disciplines to ensure that your product strategy is aligned to Xero’s overall product vision and goals.
What you’ll do
Success looks like
What you’ll bring with you
Critical competencies
Why Xero?
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond. Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, employee resource groups, wellbeing programming and allowances, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, fertility and family forming financial support, 401k contribution matching, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with snacks and break areas, flexible working, career development and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.
