Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead Product Manager to lead core verticals for Xero's AI products. You will leverage your experience in AI product development and 0-1 product creation to define and execute product strategies. This role requires extensive experience in product management, stakeholder management, and mentoring. You will work closely with engineering teams, ensuring alignment between technical direction and product vision. The position is based in Melbourne, other Australian offices, or remotely within Australia. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid leave, health insurance, life insurance, parental leave, and flexible working.

Requirements

• Experience working with AI products
• Experience developing a 0-1 product (working on a brand new product)
• Experience in working in ambiguous environments
• Experience working with many stakeholders at different levels within different teams
• Extensive experience in enabling new and improved approaches to product practice
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with diverse and senior stakeholder groups to realise customer / commercial outcomes
• Strong track record of addressing customer needs through innovative use of technology
• Effectively influenced outcomes at all levels in a variety of contexts
• Extensive experience in product practice thought leadership, defining product roadmaps and long-term planning at a Portfolio / Sub-portfolio(s) level
• Extensive experience in leading cross portfolio initiatives to deliver customer / business outcomes
• Extensive experience in mentoring, supporting and coaching

Responsibilities

• Confidently execute core product management role responsibilities including identifying customer problems and definitions solutions to test, developing and managing product roadmaps or strategies, and developing product release strategies
• Consistently review, monitor and interrogate the commercial & customer results of products, areas and teams to inform product strategy and practice
• Lead and manage a product or group of products across the end-to-end lifecycle (e.g. launch through to sunset) to ensure maintenance and support throughout the life of the product
• Works directly with 10-20 engineers and is responsible for signing off on an overall technical direction and architecture from the product perspective (ie, that tradeoffs are aligned with product direction)

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