Product Manager

Summary

Join Xero as a Product Manager and drive customer and business value through ownership of new and existing products. You will manage products end-to-end, from research and ideation to implementation and improvement. Leverage your UK tax and statutory reporting knowledge to ensure compliance and guide software development. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, develop product roadmaps, and utilize customer data to inform product strategy. Your impact will be measured by key commercial and customer success metrics. This role offers a chance to make a significant contribution to Xero's success while working in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Experience with agile processes in a software development environment, to define user stories and acceptance criteria and manage the backlog of work (2+ years product management experience is a minimum requirement)
• A background in tax and accounting and/or tax/accounting knowledge, with understanding of UK statutory reporting and tax legislation
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups to realise customer / commercial outcomes
• Experience defining product roadmaps and long term planning
• Able to disseminate information into clear and concise requirements to support product development
• Understanding of the SaaS / Fintech / Accounting industry and / or adjacent sectors relevant to Xero

Responsibilities

• Provide technical compliance guidance and support around tax legislation and calculations (such as legislative budget changes), for the Xero Tax engineering team to ensure they are aware of upcoming changes
• Build strong relationships with the broader product function’s teams, collaborating effectively with your internal stakeholders
• Participate in developing a strategy for the product line, including securing funding, resourcing
• Take an active role in the annual and quarterly OKR process, with support from product leadership
• Develop product roadmaps to execute on the product strategy, and can manage a product to its roadmap
• Use customer data and insights particularly in assessing value and viability risks, to inform product roadmap and planning
• Define the scope of the customer problem and frame possible solutions to test, validate and refine with the support from relevant team members

Preferred Qualifications

Any of the following qualifications (or equivalent if not listed), would be beneficial but not compulsory, ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), ACA (Association of the institute of Chartered Accountants), AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians), CTA (Chartered Tax Adviser) or ATT (Association of Taxation Technicians) and have knowledge of UK tax system

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
• Private medical insurance
• Gym passes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working