Product Manager

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as a Product Manager to help people succeed worldwide.

Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.

We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers and doing what they love.

Job Description

You’ll join our Xplor Pay vertical and the team that develops a complete range of payments solutions including point-of-sale, ecommerce, mobile, in-app, recurring billing, e-invoicing, and auto-reconciliation.  Our cloud-based solutions allow for seamless, secure processing and help our customers increase revenue, so they become more profitable.

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving customer and business value through ownership of new and existing products. You will manage the product end-to-end, from early-stage research and ideation, through to implementation and improvement over time. Your impact will be measured by key commercial and customer success metrics. You are primarily outwardly focused on defining problems for the team, adding context from a commercial, market and customer perspective and driving cross-functional teams to solve their problems. As a Product Manager grows in their experience they can effectively manage multiple teams and initiatives, driving multiple strategic outcomes. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of the payments ecosystem, and payment technology integration, and have experience with agile methodologies. 

Responsibilities

• Manage the Core Payment Processing qualification, clearing, billing, and settlement, reconciliation, and card network compliance.
• Support, drive, and socialize the product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver the right business value at the right time, ensuring your product is aligned with the company’s strategic goals.
• Gather and search large technical/business documents and data sets to find important information that translates to requirements or supports research and troubleshooting activities.

• Works directly with the customer to conduct research, collect insights or validates understanding.

• Uses customer data and insights particularly in assessing value and viability risks, to inform product roadmap and planning.

• Leads discovery of the problem and supports the scope definition of the solution, ensuring the cross-functional team has all requirements needed to build high level solution designs and understands the constraints they are working within. Own the product narrative by defining what we are working on and why it is important to invest in these problems.
• Participates in developing a product level strategy, including securing funding, resourcing and leading the annual and quarterly OKR process.
• Works with Product Marketing, Business Readiness and other key stakeholders to define release strategy.
• Works collaboratively with other product teams, business stakeholders and go to market teams to ensure successful delivery of solutions to market. 
• Monitors the overall commercial and customer results of the product, working with other product team members to intervene if required. 

• Monitors and analyses the ongoing performance of a product to determine product market fit and a product nurturing strategy.

• Reduce friction between stakeholders by ensuring effective communication of roadmaps and progress towards our outcomes.

• Represents the product team’s progress towards their delivery objectives, ensuring all risks and dependencies are captured and tracked throughout the product development lifecycle and communicated to product and engineering leadership.

• Determines where improvement to the existing product can be made or scheduled. 

• Alongside the Engineering Lead, leads the scrum team through all elements of the Product Development Lifecycle, ensuring the team takes a continuous improvement approach to how they work.

• Manages a product across the end-to-end lifecycle to ensure support and maintenance of the product throughout the life of the product.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product roles at high-growth organizations, ideally with experience in the payments and/or fintech spaces
• Demonstrated success supporting product and/or development strategies, defining, documenting, developing, and launching platform capabilities and products.
• Experience working with APIs, front-end and back-end architecture, and UX, within regulated industries, adhering to legal, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Able to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret data to make and explain decisions while managing multiple initiatives at different stages, prioritizing effectively, and managing time wisely to achieve objectives.
• Outstanding communication skills, with ability to manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience driving priorities and collaboration cross-functionally.

Additional Information

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values that guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

Make life simple
Build for people
Move with purpose
Create lasting communities.

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits: 

• Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back your local community
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global
• Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

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More about us 

We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing “everyday life” verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

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