Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Xero's Programs, Projects, and Portfolio group as a Senior Project Manager to lead large strategic projects from concept to operational handover. You will plan, scope, and schedule activities, ensuring high-quality delivery and innovation. This role requires strong stakeholder management and experience leading complex technical projects. You will work across product and engineering teams, reporting on progress and contributing to team growth. Success involves clear project plans, strong team understanding, and on-time, within-budget delivery. Xero offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 6+ years demonstrated experience leading and delivering multiple projects
• Experience working with security related projects
• Demonstrated experience leading complex projects and cross functional teams to deliver strategic outcomes
• Demonstrated experience with maintaining and improving project financial processes including managing and tracking budgets
• Relevant infrastructure, data and application development, business process, business change or GTM subject matter expertise / demonstrated experience
• Agile/iterative and waterfall approaches
• Web/online/cloud/SaaS experience
• Understanding of business processes, structures and organisations
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple stakeholders and delivery teams
• Demonstrated vendor management
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong commercial acumen
• Experience working with senior leaders, demonstrated experience preparing / reporting to C level

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, implementation, and delivery of projects on time, on budget and to the desired quality and scope
• Facilitate the definition of scope, goals, and deliverables
• Develop fit for purpose project management plans and approaches (including agile, iterative and waterfall)
• Work alongside the Project Leads, to assemble project teams from internal and external resource pools as required
• Report on the progress of projects including risks and issues/problems and solutions at regular intervals
• Contribute to the growth and improvement of the project teams and colleagues. Provide coaching and development for more junior members of the Projects team, and lead by example
• Develop or contribute practices, templates, and other relevant artefacts to shared libraries to enable beautiful project practice
• Contribute to ongoing process and practice improvement ideas and initiatives to support the ongoing improvement in our ways of working
• Role model what world class delivery looks like and respectfully challenge when the business veers from this path
• Embrace and champion the project(s) assigned and drive the delivery of change to a high standard
• Be able to manage concurrent pieces of work and prioritise the effort on each according to organisational priorities in discussion with the GM Projects/Project Leads
• Establish and maintain strong communications with all teams at Xero
• Maintain a balanced perspective by building relationships and interacting with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Work across the spectrum of project delivery activity from coordination to management, owning the outcome
• Work closely with stakeholders to transition project deliverables into BAU
• Develop repeatable processes where practicable to increase efficiency in project delivery
• Clear and concise escalation of any complex risks or issues

Preferred Qualifications

Project management certification is an advantage (PMI, PRINCE 2, AgilePM or similar)

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
• 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