Senior Product Manager - Platform

Summary

Join Xero as a Senior Product Manager to contribute to platform initiatives that span the company. Develop and champion a product vision and strategy, aligning with company objectives and platform needs. Collaborate closely with clients and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle. Proactively communicate with stakeholders, anticipate future platform needs, and define key performance indicators. Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex platform challenges. Xero offers generous paid leave, wellbeing programs, medical insurance, parental leave, an employee share plan, flexible working, and career development opportunities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product management experience. Prior platform product management experience is a plus
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills. Ability to influence and align teams
• Can get technically deep and engage engineering on detailed engineering design options and trade-off decisions
• Strong execution skills, consistently deliver high quality platform capabilities on time
• Excellent ability to prioritise a complex backlog, balancing competing needs
• Hustle and bias for action
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with a structured approach to identifying complex and ambiguous problems within the platform domain, breaking them down, and devising effective and scalable solutions
• Growth mindset

Responsibilities

• Develop and champion a vision & strategy for your area, ensuring alignment with overall company strategy, business objectives, and platform needs
• Work closely with clients to develop overall strategy, understand needs and priorities, and lead alignment on the plan ahead
• Drive execution  by partnering closely with engineering throughout the product lifecycle
• Communicate to stakeholders and leads proactively and clearly, to ensure alignment and flag risks or decisions needed early
• Anticipate future needs of the platform and the business, ensuring the platform scales and evolves efficiently and proactively
• Define, monitor, and report on relevant metrics for platform success. Clearly articulate the impact and value of platform investments to stakeholders

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