What you'll do
- Design Excellence & Innovation: You'll drive design best practices and uphold our standards, creating high-quality, customer-centric experiences that achieve business goals. You'll also craft compelling product visions, tackle cross-portfolio design challenges, and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Strategic Research & Insights: In partnership with researchers and product managers, you'll lead advanced quantitative and qualitative research. You'll use these insights to make evidence-based design decisions and inform product direction.
- Project Leadership & Planning You will plan and lead complex initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders. This includes building clear project plans, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and adapting your approach to meet business objectives.
- Product Strategy & Systems: With a deep understanding of Xero's strategy, you'll actively contribute to the future vision of your product area. You'll partner with product and engineering to design complex systems and drive our product vision forward.
- Mentorship & Influence: You'll provide design leadership, influencing cross-functional stakeholders to shape the future product vision for your area. You will also proactively mentor other designers to foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and collaboration.
What you'll bring with you
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates ownership and impact across a range of product design facets; from visual and interaction design, through to research and prototyping
- A degree, or training in design or a related field
- Proven experience coaching and mentoring design teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and influence product strategy.
- A deep understanding of user-centred design principles and a passion for creating intuitive and engaging experiences.
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Join us from home or at one of our beautiful workspaces. Xero has offices in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa.
