Lead Product Designer - Mobile

Summary

Join Xero and become a Lead Product Designer for the Xero Accounting App (XAA), focusing on mobile experiences. You will lead design for key initiatives, mentor designers, and improve design quality. This hands-on role involves close collaboration with Design, Product, and Development leaders. You will identify research opportunities, present design work, and challenge existing solutions. The position is a 12-month fixed-term contract due to parental leave. You will create prototypes, develop design solutions, and create handover materials. Passion for native mobile product design and a desire to impact small businesses are essential.

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

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• An Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• 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