As a Design Technologist at Xero, you'll build functional prototypes, mentor designers, and contribute to the Design System while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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.
Our Design Team
Our Design team at Xero brings together a diverse range of skills, including digital product design, content design, and visual design, all focused on crafting beautiful and effective experiences for our users. We're looking for a Design Technologist to significantly expand our prototyping capabilities through your expert coding and design skills, all in aid of creating exceptional product experiences for our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of how we bring ideas to life, co-create with our customers and shape them within PM, Design and Engineering, while also contributing to the evolution of our Design System and front-end best practices.
What you'll do
- You’ll report to an Australia-based manager within the Design team, leading our prototyping efforts
- You’ll partner closely with other designers to accelerate our work by creating high-fidelity, functional prototypes for use across all design phases, from initial concept exploration to user testing and informing final development.
- You’ll collaborate with your peers to refine and improve existing prototypes and explore more efficient prototyping approaches, helping to define and champion front-end best practices going forward.
- You’ll work with research colleagues to ensure prototypes are robust and effectively address user research objectives.
- You’ll play a key role in educating and mentoring other designers on best practices and techniques for advanced prototyping.
- You’ll contribute to the definition and creation of new patterns for our Design System, ensuring consistency and scalability across our products.
- You’ll be an advocate for exceptional product experiences for our customers, ensuring prototypes effectively demonstrate and validate these experiences.
What you'll bring with you
- Proven proficiency front end technologies such as HTML, CSS (Tailwind CSS), and JavaScript, with a strong focus on responsive design and web accessibility (WCAG).
- A portfolio showcasing your ability to build scalable, modular applications using component-based architecture with Next.js/React or similar.
- Familiarity with modern build tools (e.g., Vite, Babel, ESLint, Prettier), version control (Git/GitHub), and deployment processes.
- Practical experience working with design tokens and Figma for design specifications.
- Experience improving and documenting technical assets like boilerplates.
- Portfolio of work that displays both design and technology experience
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, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, 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.
Top Skills
Babel
CSS
Eslint
Git
Git
HTML
JavaScript
Next.Js
Prettier
React
Tailwind Css
Vite
Xero Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Our office is in the heart of the Sydney CBD with views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We're just over by Wynyard Park so it's easy to get to.
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