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Ben Jones

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Senior Product Manager at Xero | ex-SEEK

Works at
Xero
Location
Auckland, New Zealand · NZST (UTC+12)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
University of Tokyo
Languages
English
Advising
Message Connect

Overview

Senior Product Manager at Xero, focused on lending. Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for. Most at home with product strategy and credit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on lending
  • Questions about lending
Please don't message about
  • Sales demos
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Offshore staffing offers
Skills
product strategycreditroutingcomplianceunderwriting
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on routing

Topics
lending, underwriting, routing
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Paid
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
First-time founders

11 years of lending. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Auckland, New Zealand · remote OKproduct strategycreditcompliance
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Product Manager
    May 2024 - Present
    Xero · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Killed 4 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
    • Grew lending revenue from $3 million to $49 million ARR.
  2. Product Manager
    Sep 2021 - May 2024
    SEEK · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Ran 104 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Took lending activation from 29% to 46% in three quarters.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
    PwC · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    May 2017 - Jun 2020
    Stripe · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Took lending activation from 18% to 57% in three quarters.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
    Commonwealth Bank · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Ran 69 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

Projects

Write-up: lending in practice
2025

A long-form guide to lending for people starting out.

Open-source underwriting toolkit
2023

A small library for lending that 422 developers star on GitHub.

References

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Education

  1. University of Tokyo
    BEng, Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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