Offer summary

Qualifications:

Prior experience in a customer-facing role, preferably in a fast-growing SaaS company., Ability to speak Cantonese to communicate with Hong Kong businesses is essential., Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills., Customer-focused mindset with a willingness to provide exceptional experiences..

Key responsabilities:

Guide new users through their initial interactions with the product to build confidence.

Utilise strong understanding of Xero to drive customer conversion, retention, and advocacy.

Work cross-functionally with internal teams to improve customer experience and provide feedback.

Deliver presentations to strategic partners and assist customers with technical questions.

Job description

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.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and customer-focused Onboarding Specialist known internally as Small Business Specialist to join our Asia Sales team. You will be part of a team based across Hong Kong and Singapore and support our Small Business (SMB) customers in Hong Kong.

In this role, you will play a key role in ensuring successful conversions, onboarding, and product adoption, helping SMB users feel confident using Xero and fully leverage our suite of features.

You will engage with customers via phone, online meetings, email, and other channels to provide guidance, answer questions, and help our customers get the most value from Xero for their business. Your product knowledge, expertise, and customer insights will help build trust, new customer conversions and drive long-term retention.

What you’ll do

Guide our new users through their initial interactions with the product, building confidence and competence

Utilise your strong understanding of how Xero works and the value it can add to small businesses; driving customer conversion, retention and advocacy

Help implement successful processes and procedure improvements to ensure efficient and effective customer interactions which contribute to improved conversion and retention

Leverage available data and insights to add maximum value to each interaction with a customer to provide a dynamic and personalised experience

Explain core product features along with relevant adjacent products to our customers, and effectively demonstrate their value based on customer needs

Administer iterative test-and-learn projects, at all stages of the marketing funnel and customer journey

Work cross-functionally with marketing, sales ops, Go-To-Market and other internal teams to identify and provide feedback for areas of improvement and help optimise the customer experience

Contribute to key projects and initiatives within the Asia region

Deliver presentations to our strategic partners, Government organisations, app ecosystem Partners and financial partners

Assist with technical questions from customers and direct them to self service through Xero Support and Xero Central or to a Xero Accountant or Bookkeeping Partner for implementation.

What success looks like

Achieve or surpass conversion and retention targets aligned with regional growth goals

Meet required call, email volume, and qualitative metrics as set by your Leader

Collaborate with the regional and global sales team to share knowledge, experience and capitalise on opportunities quickly and efficiently

Build a deep understanding of key customer journey milestones and and able to execute key pieces of work that are assigned in order to help achieve this strategy

Build a deep understanding of Xero products to confidently speak to customers about our product offerings and clearly articulate the value proposition.

What you’ll bring with you

Prior experience in a customer facing role, preferably in a fast growing, SaaS company

Ability to speak Cantonese to communicate with Hong Kong businesses is essential for this role

Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills

Customer-focused mindset with a willingness to provide exceptional experiences to our customers

Team player attitude who enjoys collaborating and working in a cross-functional team environment

Get Stuff Done attitude with strong ownership and follow through when completing tasks

Grit and an open mind to test and try things differently and push through difficult scenarios

Human-centred design mindset to innovate, improve processes and create experiences our customers love.

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, life insurance, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with weekly fitness and yoga classes, 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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