Lead Product Manager, Ecosystem

Summary

Join Xero as a Lead PM to manage the Ecosystem Embed Platform, creating seamless experiences within Xero for key partners. This senior IC role requires collaboration with engineering, design, and marketing peers across product and partnerships teams.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience in a technical platform space or working on B2B API platforms

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
• Lead the development of networks across Xero to frame how products fit into Xero's strategy, objectives and future
• 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
• Drive decision-making across products and/or teams weighing up all inputs and information, and working as a tie-breaker where there isnʼt consensus
• Connect products and their teams in various phases of development to ensure continuity and cohesiveness, and alignment of products across Xero
• Train, coach and upskill product team members to build product practice and embed best practice across Xero
• Develop and document, in consultation with product leadership, a suite of product practices to standardize the best way to do product at Xero

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 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