Product Design Director for Global Innovation

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Roman Health Pharmacy LLC Full time

Xero is a leading cloud-based accounting software provider, helping small businesses and their advisors thrive globally.

Our purpose at Xero is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. We support our team members to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information, and connections.

We're committed to building a stronger economy that can change the world by making small businesses more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology, and empowering a community behind them.

How You'll Make an Impact
  1. You will lead the design direction and vision for product areas and initiatives within a domain, working closely with General Managers, Principal Designers, and product and engineering leaders.
  2. You will lead a team of passionate designers, supporting and growing their capabilities through design critique, mentorship, and coaching. You will help define standards and refine our design practice to drive operational excellence within your team and deliver consistent and beautiful product experiences for our customers.
  3. You will contribute design solutions and deliverables, partnering with Product GMs and Engineering leaders for product areas within a portfolio. You will help define product strategy, promote the value of design, and ensure quality of relationships and work products.
What You'll Do (People Leadership)
  1. You will work with the General Manager of Product Design and other Product Design Directors to manage your product design team, programs, and processes that support a world-class design team.
  2. You will collaborate with others on the Design Leadership Team to cultivate a vibrant team culture, work on strategies, problem-solve, and respond to team or organizational needs.
  3. You will identify and prioritize future roles based on team workload, wellbeing, development, and business priorities.
  4. You will partner with the operations team to manage logistical aspects like team budgets, training, and performance.
  5. You will encourage and enable team members in their career development, identifying opportunities for them to grow and achieve their goals.
  6. You will work with your team to ensure high-quality outputs are delivered in a timely, efficient way to meet business objectives within your product areas or portfolio.
What You'll Do (Design Practice)
  1. You will partner with Principal Designers, the Design Leadership Team, and Design Operations Leads to implement initiatives that help continually evolve and grow our design practice. You will introduce new technologies, techniques, and design tools to improve performance and process.
  2. You will encourage and support team members to collaborate effectively across Design, Research, Accessibility, Product, Engineering, and Product Marketing to fulfill user needs and business objectives across your product areas or portfolio.
Why Xero?

At Xero, you will have the opportunity to do the best work of your life, with very generous paid leave, dedicated paid leave for physical and mental wellbeing, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, and many other benefits that reflect our human values.

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