Product Manager - Toronto, Canada - Xero

Xero

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

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.

As a Product Manager you will be responsible for driving customer and business value through
- ownership of new and existing products. You will manage products 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 will be comfortable working
- autonomously where appropriate, with the support of your product leadership team.

What you'll do:

Actively network across Xero to understand how products fit into Xero's strategy, objectives

- and future

Work directly with the customer to conduct research, collect insights or validate understanding, getting support from the broader product function as required.
Use customer data and insights particularly in assessing value and viability risks, to inform product roadmap and planning
Define the scope of the customer problem and frame possible solutions to test, validate and refine with the support from relevant team members
Build strong relationships with the broader product function's teams, collaborating effectively with your internal stakeholders
Participate in developing a strategy for the product line, including securing funding, resourcing
Taking an active role in the annual and quarterly OKR process, with support from product leadership
Take responsibility for managing risks (in line with Xero Risk Management Standard) arising from nonfunctional concerns including security, privacy, regulatory change and compliance, accuracy, responsible data use and availability: consulting with stakeholders and leading tradeoff decisions
Develop product roadmaps to execute on the product strategy, and can manage a product to its roadmap
Take responsibility for establishing team delivery cadence and rituals, and facilitating these as required
Develop an effective release strategy, with the support from relevant team members
Work collaboratively with the product function to ensure an effective launch
Monitor the overall commercial & customer results of the product line, working with other product team members to support as required
Monitor and analyse the ongoing performance of a product
Determine where improvements to the existing product can be made or scheduled
Provide support between stages of product development to ensure continuity and cohesiveness, and alignment of product to strategy and roadmap
Manage a product across the endtoend lifecycle (e.g. launch through to sunset) to ensure maintenance and support throughout the life of the product
Work as a tiebreaking decisionmaker, ensuring where the product team cannot get to consensus, the product manager will weigh up all inputs and make the decision
Support recruitment of new Xero's as required, ensuring team members are high quality, fit Xero's culture, and are onboarded effectively

What you'll bring with you:

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Critical capabilities
- **Love customer problems**:

Plans, runs, documents and synthesises user research initiatives using standard frameworks to deliver impactful insights for Xero
Uses multiple techniques to interrogate customer evidence to accurately identify and define problems customers care about
Develops and justifies well thought through MVP/MLP solutions to solve customer problems
Designs and executes experiments to validate solution options with quantitative and qualitative evidence

- **Look to the future**:

Clearly articulates the product's value, functionality, and competitive industry trends, to act as a trusted source of information for the product/domain
Develops a product strategy and roadmap in line with Xero's strategy to guide product decisionmaking and longterm goals
Generates new ideas to drive more innovative and creative products

- **Work the Xero way**:

Effectively groups and prioritises stories, bugs and chores, managing both team capacity and release timeframes
Effectively applies and advocates for Xero's PM ways of working to improve team operations
Effectively manages releases, including developing accompanying assets, to deliver incremental value to the customer

- **Demonstrate commercial acumen**: