Product Manager

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as Product Manager to help people succeed worldwide.

Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.

We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers and doing what they love.

Job Description

You’ll join our Xplor Pay vertical and the team that develops a complete range of payments solutions including point-of-sale, ecommerce, mobile, in-app, recurring billing, e-invoicing, and auto-reconciliation. Our cloud-based solutions allow for seamless, secure processing and help our customers increase revenue, so they become more profitable.

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving customer and business value through ownership of new and existing products. You will manage the product end-to-end, from early-stage research and ideation, through to implementation and improvement over time. Your impact will be measured by key commercial and customer success metrics. You are primarily outwardly focused on defining problems for the team, adding context from a commercial, market and customer perspective and driving cross-functional teams to solve their problems. As a Product Manager grows in their experience they can effectively manage multiple teams and initiatives, driving multiple strategic outcomes. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of the payments ecosystem, and payment technology integration, and have experience with agile methodologies. 

Responsibilities

• Actively networks across Xplor to understand how products fit into Xplor's strategy, objectives and future vision 

• Works directly with the customer to conduct research, collect insights or validates understanding 

• Uses customer data and insights particularly in assessing value and viability risks, to inform product roadmap and planning 

• Leads discovery of the problem and supports the scope definition of the solution, ensuring the cross-functional team has all requirements needed to build high level solution designs and understands the constraints they are working within. Own the product narrative by defining what we are working on and why it is important to invest in these problems 

• Participates in developing a product level strategy, including securing funding, resourcing and leading the annual and quarterly OKR process 

• Develops product roadmaps to execute the product strategy, and can manage a product to its roadmap 

• Works with Product Marketing, Business Readiness and other key stakeholders to define release strategy 

• Works collaboratively with other product teams, business stakeholders and go to market teams to ensure successful delivery of solutions to market. 

• Monitors the overall commercial and customer results of the product, working with other product team members to intervene if required. 

• Monitors and analyses the ongoing performance of a product to determine product market fit and a product nurturing strategy 

• Reduce friction between stakeholders by ensuring effective communication of roadmaps and progress towards our outcomes 

• Represents the product team’s progress towards their delivery objectives, ensuring all risks and dependencies are captured and tracked throughout the product development lifecycle and communicated to product and engineering leadership 

• Determines where improvement to the existing product can be made or scheduled 

• Alongside the Engineering Lead, leads the scrum team through all elements of the Product Development Lifecycle, ensuring the team takes a continuous improvement approach to how they work 

• Manages a product across the end-to-end lifecycle to ensure support and maintenance of the product throughout the life of the product 

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

• 6+ years of experience in product roles at high-growth organizations, ideally with experience in the payments and/or fintech spaces
• Demonstrated success supporting product and/or development strategies, defining, documenting, developing, and launching platform capabilities and products.
• Experience working with APIs, front-end and back-end architecture, and UX, within regulated industries, adhering to legal, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Able to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret data to make and explain decisions while managing multiple initiatives at different stages, prioritizing effectively, and managing time wisely to achieve objectives.
• Outstanding communication skills, with ability to manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience driving priorities and collaboration cross-functionally.

Additional Information

What does it mean to work for Xplor?

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognise our team members.

More about us 

We’ve recently expanded our reach by merging the two software and payments powerhouses TSG and Clearent. The resulting company is Xplor Technologies serving over 82,000 businesses that processed over $30 billion in payments, operating across 158 countries in 2020. 

Xplor is headquartered in the United States in Atlanta, GA, with operations across North America, Australasia, Europe, and the United Kingdom. We now have over 2,000 Xplorers, working across five “everyday life” verticals: Education, Health and Fitness, Boutique Wellness, Field Services and Personal Services.

How to apply? 

To start your application with us, please submit your CV and a cover letter and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "MarketingRocket" at the top of your cover letter so that we know you really took the time to read our job ad. Your contact is our Talent Partner Dean.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant. 

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