Xero Looking for Senior Product Designer at Auckland City, Auckland Full Time

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

What does that look like day to day?

Xero is incredibly user centric, which means design is at the heart of all our product development. Close collaboration with regional designers is essential with clear communication and transparency a key factor in achieving success. As the Senior Product Designer within the team you’ll be partnering with product and engineering peers on large scale initiatives.

The initial priority for this programme of work is the migration of existing regional solutions on to the global platform. Regional designers will look to the platform designer to provide guidance on UI/UX migration decisions while identifying gaps and new opportunities in the platform’s feature set. They’ll champion consistent, quality user experiences that scale across our tax products globally.

The ultimate objective is to design and maintain a world class tax platform that avoids duplication of work and frees up tax teams to focus on innovation and additional customer value propositions.

What we need from you:

• You’re an experienced designer, accustomed to user-centric design methods and best practices
• Ideally product (Software as a service) design experience but we’ll still consider you if you have really strong design experience elsewhere.
• Strong problem definition and articulation – challenging assumptions and ‘pre-set’ thinking around solutions, agreeing the purpose, principles and vision
• You’re a natural when it comes to collaborating with cross functional teams to ensure proposed solutions balance user needs, business strategy and technical constraints
• Proven experience in creating effective handover materials which clearly communicate how the design should look and behave throughout interaction flows and journeys (e.g. User flow diagrams, design specifications, experience/interaction specifications etc)

What you can look forward to

Working at Xero will provide you with a diverse and inclusive environment alongside people who will respect, challenge, support and mentor you. Who says you can’t have fun while you do the best work of your life?

We see the value in work-life balance, many of us take full advantage of our flexible working arrangements, so whether you like to get a surf in before work, like to head home in time to pick up the kids or you just like working from the comfort of your own home now and then, we want to support you.

We trust you to build your career to the best of your ability and we will support your hunger to learn with training and career mentorship, to help you flourish. Our facilities and PX teams work hard to give us great workspaces with all the tech company perks so join us and experience our awesome culture!

You can choose to perform this role:

Xero is a Rainbow Tick certified employer.

Xero strongly encourages employees and contractors to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to work from a Xero office, or engage in any face-to-face Xero business. Xero will work with anyone who is not vaccinated, or prefers not to disclose their vaccination status, to determine what reasonable accommodations can be provided to ensure their role can be performed safely.

Please include a cover letter in your application, telling us why you’re a great fit for this position.