Product Manager - Inventory
Auckland, NZ / Wellington, NZ
Product – Product Management /
Fixed Term /
Hybrid
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.
Our Inventory team at Xero is dedicated to building tools that empower small businesses to manage their stock efficiently and accurately. We focus on delivering inventory solutions that cater to a wide range of needs, from basic stock tracking to advanced integrations. Our goal is to streamline the inventory process, making it easier for goods-based businesses to monitor, optimise, and grow their inventory management and operations, all while saving them time and simplifying their daily workflows.
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for setting our vision and strategy for a portfolio of products and services. You will lead, coach and mentor a talented team. Your skillful leadership enables them, and their engineering pods, to deliver compelling products and services that solve real problems for our customers.
What you’ll do
- Understanding customer problems, you will be the champion of the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ and deliver value through defining, driving and executing a product roadmap that realises Xero’s vision and objectives and ensures the success of the product.
- Bridge technical and business worlds as you lead strong and productive relationships with global business stakeholders to understand and deliver on market needs and priorities, and evangelise the product vision.
- Work with strategy, product marketing, data and research teams and drive user and competitive research to uncover customer needs and new product value propositions in line with Xero’s vision.
- Work closely with your peers in the product group leadership team: architects, product designers and agile facilitators to deliver quality software that solves real customer problems.
- Cultivate a fun, rewarding, innovative and results-driven culture that lives and breathes our Xero values.
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 wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, 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.