Lead Product Designer - Payments

Xero; Milton; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Otago is seeking a Lead Product Designer to define and deliver seamless product experiences. In this role, you'll mentor team members, provide design critique, and collaborate closely with engineers and product managers to influence the product roadmap. Strong user experience design skills and the ability to foster team development are essential. This position offers an opportunity to shape the design vision within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading design efforts and mentoring other designers.
• Strong understanding of user experience design principles.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and deliver seamless product experiences.
• Mentor other designers and lead by example in design critique.
• Build strong relationships with engineering leads and product managers.

Job description

Overview

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

About the team

The Collecting Payments Design Team focuses on creating innovative payment solutions for small businesses. Our key objective is to design experiences for invoicing and other payment methods, and integrating payment providers to offer a comprehensive payments solution.

About the role

Lead Product Designers help define, design and deliver seamless product experiences within a product area at Xero. Working on your own design tasks, as well as assisting others through design collaboration, feedback and mentorship. You’ll contribute to the design vision and direction, working with the Design team and key relationships with Product leaders within your product area. You’ll help define how we improve as a Design team by working closely with other Leads and Principals, as well as our Design Leadership Team.

You’re not required to manage anyone as a Lead, but you will mentor others and lead by example, offering design critique, sharing your thoughts and domain knowledge, and helping others develop their skills and expertise. This could be anything from helping deliver the team’s professional development programme to hosting knowledge sharing sessions or even creating better processes that can be implemented across the wider team.

Leads also work closely with their Design Directors, building strong relationships with engineering leads and product managers to help influence prioritisation of work and roadmap items.