Principal Product Designer

2 weeks ago

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Xero 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.


How you'll make an impact
You will be responsible for crafting and communicating a cohesive long-term design vision. This work will guide our teams towards the creation of beautiful new products.

You will contribute to developing the standards and guidelines which clarify the expectations of our design teams, and growing and enabling capabilities of designers within your team.

You'll help to define the design direction for product areas and/or initiatives, working in partnership with design, product and engineering leaders, and ensure they are defined and shared in a way that provides clear direction to other designers and product teams.


What you'll do

PRODUCT THINKING

  • Partnering closely with Design and Product Leaders to set the design vision and direction for a portfolio or initiative, raise the visual and interaction design quality and get teams working in a way that makes great products.

DESIGN PRACTICE AND CAPABILITY

  • Work with GM Design, Product Design Directors in your portfolio and other Product Design Principal's across portfolios to continually evolve and grow our design practice, processes, and capabilities to support the delivery of worldclass product design solutions.

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

  • Influence, challenge and enable teams to deliver high quality product experiences.

What you'll bring:

  • A portfolio that demonstrates consistently highquality design outcomes, contributing to user experience and business value
  • A clear communication style; empathetic to a variety of audiences from senior stakeholders to contributing product team members; rich storytelling from beginning to end
  • Experience leading other designers working on complex software
  • Experience building and iterating on a product based on usage patterns, user feedback and an evolving strategic landscape
  • Experience in building foundational relationships both with crossdiscipline peers, stakeholders and design team mates

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

Why 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. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset.
Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too.

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