Remote Product Specialist-Accounting,AI

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. 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.

How you’ll make an impact

Xero is building new AI products and looking for an accounting/bookkeeping product specialist to help in the effort. Xero’s goal is to build beautiful small business software that solves their needs across disparate jobs to be done like bookkeeping, invoicing, bills, payroll, compliance, and more.

As we experiment with new AI products, this role is essential for understanding the nuances of core accounting, bookkeeping, and tax, so that they can be translated into beautiful experiences, and ensuring our product solves the core accounting and bookkeeping needs of our small business customers.

You'll be embedded with product development teams, and will apply subject matter expertise to enable them and broader Xero to create customer delight and market opportunity. To do this, you’ll leverage your deep understanding of small business and accountant & bookkeeper needs, ensuring our software meets and exceeds customer expectations.

As a key member of the Product Management team you'll positively influence culture, and be a key advocate for what products to build.

An accounting degree or equivalent experience is required

What you’ll do

• Be the key subject matter expert for Accounting and Bookkeeping, and apply your broad understanding of Accounting and Bookkeeping standards, customs, user needs, and business realities to support the product strategy & product development process.
• Interpret and translate applicable product market fit, legal & regulatory requirements (and assessments from partner SME teams) into digestible recommendations that product leadership teams and their direct reports can consider and prioritize to develop winning strategies, and write effective requirements for Xero’s AI products.
• Apply subject matter expertise to support Marketing, Comms, Customer Support and other teams to ensure that customer facing communications are created in an accurate, efficient and fully compliant way.
• Work with UX design, UX research, and product teams to craft research activities and gather customer feedback and interpret the results (for both AB and SB behaviours)
• Support product teams to implement process and controls that will lead to delivery of accurate and compliant software for our customers
• Work with cross functional partners such as the Product Compliance team to provide insight on upcoming changes (regulatory or otherwise) that will affect Xero and its customers, and ongoing assessments of our product to ensure that our product and small business customers remain compliant with relevant rules, legislation and industry best practices.
• Work closely and collaboratively with other subject matter experts from across the business, and externally, such as Risk, Compliance, Legal, Government Relations and Privacy on shared projects and content.

Success looks like

• Xero’s AI products achieve product market fit
• Xero’s customers are able to effectively complete core bookkeeping jobs to be done through beautiful product experiences
• Xero’s customer communications are clear, correct, timely, and helpful
• Product development activity is well informed by accurate and clear expertise
• The compliance community within Xero is well informed and engaged with the AI Product team
• Stakeholders feel empowered with comprehensive up to date knowledge about the needs of the market
• Xero creates customer delight and commercial opportunities out of regulatory requirements and market dynamics

What you’ll bring with you

• Critical competencies
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Commerce, Law, Taxation, Finance or similar
• Highly advanced and specialist understanding of regional regulatory requirements that impact or drive data and returns flowing in/out of the tax authorities (broadly around accounting, bookkeeping, income tax, sales tax, payroll and related cyber security and…