Lead Product Manager - Embedded Accounting - Xero

Job Title: Lead Product Manager - Embedded Accounting
Job Location: Seattle, US
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/xero/ba2d7548-8642-46e8-b987-6c8e5b3e80d9
Job Description: Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you’ll make an impact

In this role, you will lead Xero’s efforts to build a new business working with partners to embed accounting functionality in their apps. This is a key strategic initiative for Xero. You’ll provide strategic, commercial, and technical leadership across all the teams at Xero needed to build and grow our syndicated ledger offering. You’ll ensure teams’ alignment with overall Xero strategy and customer requirements, drive the execution of key projects, own communication with stakeholders around the globe, and build empathy for, and understanding of your users. You will also mentor and manage other PMs to ensure the right things are built at the right time at a high level of product quality.
What you’ll do
Develop and maintain an evergreen product strategy and roadmap for your area
In collaboration with design and engineering teams, build beautiful, innovative products that delight customers and help Xero achieve its business objectives
Work with other product, commercial, and ops teams within Xero to create a framework of quantitative metrics that demonstrate the success or otherwise of product evolution and product marketing
Be accountable for the commercial success of the capabilities you create in the products you are responsible for
Define, own and communicate the product roadmap and prioritization (including development of business cases) to best determine how to service new customer acquisition, retention and conversion
Lead effective cross-functional teams of product managers, developers, designers, and analysts that continually improve and deliver value to our customers
Contribute to the improvement of Xeroʼs product leadership capability
Cultivate a fun, rewarding, innovative and results-driven culture that lives and breathes our Xero values
Success looks like
Continuous delivery of industry-leading products for Xero partners and customers
Creation, communication, and constant evolution of a roadmap that supports growth of the products and reflects the changing needs of customers
Attracting and retaining the best talent to maintain a world-class team
Cultivating a fun, rewarding, agile and results-driven culture
What you’ll bring with you
Minimum qualifications:
12 years of experience in product management, co-founder, or related technical role
Experience creating product roadmap(s) from conception to launch, driving the product vision, defining the GTM strategy, and leading design discussions.
Experience building products with multiple cross-team dependencies

Preferred qualifications:
Experience building 0->1 products, ideally marketplaces, B2B2C, or other multi-user products
Experience managing day-to-day product, technical, and design direction for large scale systems
Experience in one or more of the following: SaaS, Cloud, enterprise, consumer, or similar space.
Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Sales, Customer Support, Finance or Marketing
Ability to influence multiple stakeholders, achieve strategic goals and evolve product strategy based on research, data, and industry trends
Past people management experience is a bonus

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