Design Technologist

Summary

Join Xero's Design team as a Design Technologist to lead prototyping efforts, collaborating with designers and researchers to create high-fidelity prototypes. You will accelerate design work, refine prototyping approaches, champion front-end best practices, and educate other designers. Responsibilities include contributing to the Design System, advocating for exceptional customer experiences, and working with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. A strong portfolio showcasing scalable applications and experience with design tokens and Figma is required. Xero offers generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, health insurance, life insurance, income protection, parental leave, an Employee Share Plan, flexible working, and career development.

Requirements

• Proven proficiency front end technologies such as HTML, CSS (Tailwind CSS), and JavaScript, with a strong focus on responsive design and web accessibility (WCAG)
• A portfolio showcasing your ability to build scalable, modular applications using component-based architecture with Next.js/React or similar
• Familiarity with modern build tools (e.g., Vite, Babel, ESLint, Prettier), version control (Git/GitHub), and deployment processes
• Practical experience working with design tokens and Figma for design specifications
• Experience improving and documenting technical assets like boilerplates
• Portfolio of work that displays both design and technology experience

Responsibilities

• You’ll report to an Australia-based manager within the Design team, leading our prototyping efforts
• You’ll partner closely with other designers to accelerate our work by creating high-fidelity, functional prototypes for use across all design phases, from initial concept exploration to user testing and informing final development
• You’ll collaborate with your peers to refine and improve existing prototypes and explore more efficient prototyping approaches, helping to define and champion front-end best practices going forward
• You’ll work with research colleagues to ensure prototypes are robust and effectively address user research objectives
• You’ll play a key role in educating and mentoring other designers on best practices and techniques for advanced prototyping
• You’ll contribute to the definition and creation of new patterns for our Design System, ensuring consistency and scalability across our products
• You’ll be an advocate for exceptional product experiences for our customers, ensuring prototypes effectively demonstrate and validate these experiences

Benefits

• 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
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• And income protection
• 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