<div><b>Our Purpose </b></div><div><span>At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><b>About the Team</b></span></div><div>The Engineering Experience portfolio empowers product and technology teams at Xero to deliver value faster, safer, and at scale by providing seamless platform solutions that simplify development, enable best practices, and eliminate friction. We are at the forefront of technology adoption for Xero and provide platforms and tools that enable rapid development and innovation from providing core solutions to eventing through to enabling the use of AI as part of engineering work.</div><div><br /></div><div><span><b>About the Role</b></span></div><div>As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a key role in supporting and shaping key internal engineering initiatives.</div><div><br /></div><div>You’ll be supported by a team of engineers to build or deliver solutions to other engineering teams at Xero. You’ll help shape what these solutions look like, set best practices, and engage with teams to support their adoption. By doing so, we accelerate other engineering teams to deliver value to their customers and reach their goals. You may need to engage with third party vendors to ensure they are aligned to our needs, and drive improvements.</div><div><br /></div><div>Your impact will be measured by key engineering success metrics. You will be comfortable working autonomously where appropriate, with the support of the leadership team and your peers.</div><div><br /></div><div>This opportunity will be working in a very technical space, so knowledge about the software development lifecycle, how it’s being impacted by generative AI, and its application in organisations such as Xero is essential.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please note this is a 12-month fixed term contract where we provide flexible work arrangements. </div><h3>What youll do</h3><ul><li>Work directly with internal customers (software engineers) to research, collect insights or validate understanding</li><li>Build relationships with the broader product and engineering teams, influencing without authority and collaborating and communicating effectively with internal stakeholders, and senior leadership</li><li>Participate in developing strategy for engineering focussed products and tooling to help realise Xero’s technical goals</li><li>Develop roadmaps with support from your teams to execute on the strategy, delivering value iteratively and rapidly</li><li>Take responsibility for managing risks arising from non-functional concerns including security, privacy, regulatory change and compliance, accuracy, responsible data use and availability</li><li>Monitor and analyse the ongoing performance of a product both from a commercial and customer perspective</li><li>Be comfortable and adaptable to a fast moving environment, keeping up with industry trends</li><li>Regularly liaise and engage with third party vendors for our suite of tools, identifying risks, and supporting adoption of features and requirements they may have</li></ul><h3>What youll bring with you</h3><ul><li>A background in working on software engineering problems, particularly in cloud based environments (we mostly use AWS)</li><li>Experience in agile processes, defining user stories, and managing work backlogs</li><li>Experience defining product roadmaps and supporting long term planning</li><li>Strong communication skills that can adapt to the right audience, clearly and concisely</li><li>This role is likely to have involvement with our generative AI tools and goals, so we have a strong preference for someone with experience in rolling out and supporting AI and agentic tools</li><li>Knowledge of using feedback and data to help inform decision making, and articulate clear outcomes through company and team metrics</li><li>Able to bring together multiple views and inputs, and turn that into requirements to support product development</li></ul><div><span><b>Why Xero? </b></span></div><div>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, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.</div>

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Technical Senior Product Manager - Engineering Experience (12-month fixed term)

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