Manager, Product Compliance & Industry Engagement

Manager, Product Compliance & Industry Engagement

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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.

This role is essential to ensuring that the products Xero builds comply with the local government regulations and therefore, plays an integral role in directly contributing to the Xero Vision to be the most insightful and trusted small business platform.

What you’ll do

• Champion Product Compliance : Own the regulatory landscape for our NZ products, ensuring full compliance with local standards in tax, payroll, accounting, and cyber security.
• Translate Regulation into Action : Monitor changes from key bodies (e.g., MBIE, Inland Revenue) and translate complex legislation into clear, actionable requirements for our product and technology teams.
• Shape Future Products : Provide strategic regulatory guidance on our product roadmaps, embedding compliance into the design of new features from the very beginning.
• Build Our Compliance Framework : Partner with leaders across Product, Technology, and Legal to design and implement the risk frameworks that safeguard our products and customers.
• Be the Voice of Xero : Build influential relationships with government agencies and professional bodies, representing Xero in technical working groups to help shape future policy.
• Provide Expert Guidance : Act as the go‑to subject matter expert for regulatory queries across the business, including supporting our M&A team with compliance due diligence.

What you’ll bring with you

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

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