Head of Product

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Xero’s online accounting software connects small business owners with their numbers, their bank, and advisors anytime.
The Role
Lead the strategic direction of the Americas Tax Portfolio, cultivate high-performing teams, manage stakeholders, and drive product strategy and growth.
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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.


This is a 12 month fixed-term-contract


As a Head of Product, you will:


Lead the strategic direction and growth of our Americas Tax Portfolio as Head of Product. You'll tackle complex, long-term product problems and cultivate high-performing product teams through exceptional people leadership. This role is pivotal in expanding our customer base into highly complex and ambiguous markets, requiring expert stakeholder management and the development of both new and experienced product leaders.

  • Network across Xero to ensure the products within the portfolio connect to Xero’s strategy, objectives and future
  • Provide leadership, shaping the team vision, culture, product team scope and ways of working
  • Drive product strategy and a coherent narrative for your product area
  • Lead a team of product managers and senior product managers to develop and execute the product strategy and roadmap
  • Coach team members and elevate product management capability and performance in your team and the wider division
  • Collaborate with engineering, design, and product marketing to bring new products to market
  • Deeply understand your customers, and drive shared understanding of target segments across your team and stakeholders
  • Be an effective spokesperson for the product, communicating effectively with executives and other stakeholders
  • Stay abreast of the latest trends in relevant industry and technology
  • Develop and implement strategies to drive product adoption and growth.

What you will bring with you

  • Around 10 years' experience in product management.
  • A good understanding of accounting and compliance 
  • Experience working within a B2B SaaS environment
  • Strong people leadership skills
  • A track record of solving complex customer, commercial, and technical problems.
  • Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
  • Love learning new things and willing to push boundaries and drive new thinking
  • Have strong product and people leadership experience
  • Proven ability to lead and motivate and develop a team of product managers

Why Xero? 

Offering 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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

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The Company
HQ: Wellington
4,700 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Xero is a global small business platform with 3.95 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also has an extensive ecosystem of connected apps and connections to banks and other financial institutions helping small businesses access a range of solutions from within Xero’s open platform to help them run their business and manage their finances.

Why Work With Us

Xero is not like most companies. When you join Xero, you become part of something beautiful —a global community of people who are passionate about making an impact on the world. It’s a place where you can truly be yourself and find success in a way that’s meaningful to you.

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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.

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