Sr. Product Designer (Mobile & Native Apps Team - Android/iOS)
Xero: Empowering Small Businesses Through Beautiful Design
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.
Making Running a Business Beautiful
At Xero, we're here to make running a business beautiful. By making small businesses more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology, and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, we're not only helping small businesses, we'll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
Impactful Design at Xero
Senior Product Designers at Xero are responsible for designing beautiful, enabling, and meaningful experiences that solve genuine customer problems. As a seasoned designer, you'll work closely with Product and Technology on med-large scale projects within a product area of a portfolio.
What You'll Do:
- Work with the Design Director, Lead and/or Principal Designer within your portfolio and product area to understand the Product Design vision and direction and ensure consistency and quality of execution within your product design delivery.
- Promote the value of design and collaborative practice across spheres of influence and participation.
- Conduct desk research including domain and competitor analysis, interaction/design trends, and 'best of' examples.
- Analyze relevant considerations such as research insights, product strategy and roadmaps, technical environment and constraints.
- Contribute to the definition and articulation of 'the problem' - challenging assumptions and 'pre-set' thinking around solutions, agreeing the purpose, principles, and vision.
- Create prototypes which tangibly demonstrate a proposed concept or solution.
- Collaborate with content designers to ensure content within an experience is consistent, 'fit for purpose', and meets customer needs.
- Participate in generative user research to understand customer underlying goals, needs, behaviors, and pain points (where necessary).
- Collaborate with development teams during sprints to provide design QA and problem solve issues as they arise.
What Success Looks Like:
- You're delivering great product design work.
- You're respected by your peers, the design team, and Product leaders.
- You're delivering on schedule against agreed deadlines, to the highest quality standards.
- You're creating inspiring and innovative solutions to meet customer and business problems.
- You're collaborating and communicating well with your Xero colleagues, especially Design, Product & Development teams.
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 well-being as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, well-being and sports programs, 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.
Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we're immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent, and innovate successfully. We are a member of Pride in Diversity, in recognition of our inclusive workplace. Our goal is to make sure you feel welcome and supported to do the best work of your life.
At Xero, we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience. If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application and throughout the interview process.
