Lead Product Designer - Mobile

Summary

Join Xero and become our Lead Product Designer for the Xero Accounting App (XAA), a flagship mobile experience. You will shape the future of mobile accounting, partnering with cross-functional leaders. This hands-on leadership role involves leading design for key initiatives, mentoring designers, and raising the bar for quality and usability. You will work on native mobile product design and make a real difference in the lives of small businesses. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract due to parental leave. The role requires close partnership with Design, Product, and Development leaders to set the design vision and direction for Xero’s native mobile experiences.

Requirements

• Track record of designing native mobile experiences across iOS and Android
• Track record of innovating and delivering complex design experiences at scale
• Ability to solve customers' problems through design thinking and execution
• A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality design outcomes, contributing to user experience and business value
• A mastery of the entire design process from uncovering customer needs and pain points, to executing elegant interfaces
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Design, Product, and Development leaders to set the design vision and direction for Xero’s native mobile experiences
• Partner closely with Design Research and Product colleagues to identify research opportunities, plan and undertake research and testing
• Promote the value of design and collaborative practice across spheres of influence and participation
• Present and communicate design work to a range of different audiences
• Challenge current solutions, by exploring ideal future concepts and identifying new interaction solutions and patterns that meet customer needs in a better way
• Create prototypes which tangibly demonstrate a proposed concept or solution
• Influence, challenge and support designers within your product area to deliver high quality product experiences
• Develop phased design solutions that bridge the gap between a future state and current patterns, XUI Mobile design system, iOS, iPadOS, Android and other relevant constraints and considerations
• Develop detailed interactions and interfaces which are smart and contextually relevant
• Create effective handover materials which clearly communicate how the design should look and behave throughout interaction flows and journeys (e.g. User flow diagrams, design specifications, experience/interaction specifications etc)

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
• 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