Product Designer
Our Purpose
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 business, we'll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
How you'll make an impact
As the Product Designer, you'll be working collaboratively on design problems from beginning to end – from concepting the next great product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch. You'll enjoy the challenge of making the complex simple and want to get stuck in and do beautiful work.
We're a diverse group of 60-plus working across Xero's products in five locations in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA. The design team is a vital part of Xero's success and our product makes a meaningful difference in the lives and businesses of more than a million people around the world.
You'll be joining an innovative team of passionate Product Designers, collaborating with our User Experience team, and working on some really exciting projects.
You're ideal for this role if...
- You have a great portfolio that exhibits a variety of interface design work and a strong visual aesthetic
- You love crafting beautiful interfaces and care about the details at every step of the journey from concept to shipped code
- You are experienced in user-centered design methods and best practices, including working closely with UX designers to cultivate a deep understanding of the needs and aspirations of the people our products are designed for.
- You'll be an outside the box thinker with a real passion for design thinking
- You're an excellent communicator, able to clearly present your ideas and rationale in conversations with others, and through prototypes, models and mockups
- You're a well-organized, passionate, and empathetic colleague, seeking to improve what we build, and how we do it
- You're the kind of designer who not only wants to improve what we build but also how we go about doing it.
- You thrive in a highly collaborative, fast-moving environment, and you enjoy working closely with smart and colleagues – including product strategists and managers, technical leads and developers.
- Bonus points if you have planned and conducted user research, you have coding chops, and /or experience in animation or motion design.
Why you'll love Xero
Diversity of people brings diversity of thought and we like that. A collaborative and inclusive environment is important to us. Working at Xero will provide you with a diverse and inclusive environment alongside people who will respect, challenge and support you to have fun while you do the best work of your life. We are a place where personal development, innovation, and change are not only inspired but also celebrated. We value our people and want them to enjoy and take pride in their work.
We have a unique and special culture based around our values (#ownership, #challenge, #beautiful, #human and #champion) and offer a number of other great benefits and perks including Xero shares...
So if you want to hear more and have the opportunity to help shape the next phase in the Xero success story please apply!