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Lead Product Manager - AI

Lead Product Manager - AI

Posted 453 days ago

Job Description

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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.

We’re hiring a Lead Product Manager to lead core verticals for Xero’s AI products. This person must have experience working on AI Products or a strong passion for AI products (use it regularly, have strong familiarity with AI products). Xero is on a mission to reinvent financial and business intelligence through AI, to help millions of businesses globally. AI is a top priority within Xero, and we’ve been investing heavily in this area.

We’re currently building JAX (in beta), Xero’s genAI-powered agent to handle financial and business advisory tasks. And we’re investing in AI/ML throughout our products, including efforts such as document extraction, predictive analytics, and personalization / recommendations. We’re looking for strong product managers with experience in AI/ML, customer obsession, and a hustle “move fast” mindset. Come join us as we push the boundaries of technology and reinvent financial intelligence.

We’re looking for this candidate to be based in our San Mateo office or west coast US.

What you'll bring with you:

Must have Experience working with AI products or a strong passion for AI products (use it regularly, have strong familiarity with AI products)

Experience developing a 0-1 product (working on a brand new product)

Experience in working in ambiguous environments

Experience working with many stakeholders at different levels within different teams

Extensive experience in enabling new and improved approaches to product practice

Demonstrated experience collaborating with diverse and senior stakeholder groups to realize customer / commercial outcomes

Strong track record of addressing customer needs through innovative use of technology

Effectively influenced outcomes at all levels in a variety of contexts

Extensive experience in product practice thought leadership, defining product roadmaps and longterm planning at a Portfolio / Sub-portfolio(s) level

Extensive experience in leading cross portfolio initiatives to deliver customer / business outcomes

Extensive experience in mentoring, supporting and coaching

What you'll do:

Confidently execute core product management role responsibilities including identifying customer problems and definitions solutions to test, developing and managing product roadmaps or strategies, and developing product release strategies

Consistently review, monitor and interrogate the commercial & customer results of products, areas and teams to inform product strategy and practice

Lead and manage a product or group of products across the end-to-end lifecycle (e.g. launch through to sunset) to ensure maintenance and support throughout the life of the product

Works directly with 10-20 engineers and is responsible for signing off on an overall technical direction and architecture from the product perspective (ie, that tradeoffs are aligned with product direction).

Why Xero?

Diversity of people brings diversity of thought, and we like that. Our human-first culture of respect, fairness, and inclusion is what helps Xeros thrive and work and beyond. 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, employee resource groups, wellbeing programming and allowances, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, fertility and family forming financial support, 401k contribution matching, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with snacks and break areas, flexible working, career development and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

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 time of application and throughout the interview process.

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