Product Manager - Data & AI

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy and delivery of Store Data Products. This hybrid role requires partnering with various teams to drive innovative data-driven solutions that enhance the shopping experience. The successful candidate will manage product backlogs, write user stories, and ensure alignment with business goals while leveraging advanced data analytics. This position comes with a competitive benefits package, including a bonus scheme and generous leave options.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Employee Assistance Programme for mental wellbeing

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of data platforms to enhance scalability and performance.
• Proven experience in setting product vision and strategy.
• Ability to leverage insights to inform strategic direction.

Responsibilities

• Drive the product vision and roadmap for Store Data Products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver quality data products.
• Ensure adherence to compliance and governance standards.

Skills

Experience of writing hypothesis statements

Understanding of large scale data platforms

Application of UX/UI disciplines

Experience in collaborating with engineering teams

Job description

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Apply by 05-Jan-2026

The team is responsible for developing and managing Data & AI products that drive intelligent experiences, decisions and actions across the Tesco ecosystem. We work in close partnership with business and technology teams across Stores, Finance, People, Customer, Commercial to enable the seamless build, consumption, integration and expansion of Data & AI capabilities.

As a Product Manager, you will evolve and drive the product vision, strategy and delivery of Store Data Products that empower Tesco colleagues to deliver an exceptional shopping experience. Partner with stakeholders to align with business priorities, manage backlogs and write user stories. Leverage store data, AI‑assisted analytics and task management solutions to optimise store operations. Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver innovative, data driven products that create measurable impact.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team and play a leading role in defining, building and launching Store data product that have a real impact on Tesco business and colleagues.

This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being based at our London and Welwyn Garden City offices 3 days a week.

What is in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

You will be responsible for

Product Strategy and Delivery

• Evolve and drive the product vision and roadmap for Store Data Products, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer experience objectives.
• Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade‑offs with peers and senior leaders to maximise business value.
• Translate complex business challenges into innovative, data‑driven solutions that improve store efficiency and colleague productivity.
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to engineering teams using user stories with acceptance criteria and help break down complex work into smaller, deliverable chunks for faster delivery.
• Steer sprint and release planning sessions with engineering counterparts to plan iterations that deliver maximum business value with minimal effort.
• Prioritise, coordinate, and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner with engineering, analytics, store operations and external vendors to deliver high quality, scalable data products.
• Drive acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product teams and engineering stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional teams on short term tasks and mid / long term priorities.
• Identify and remove challenges faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders, proactively flagging risks or delays.

Technical and Data Expertise

• Leverage store data, advanced analytics and emerging technologies to shape product capabilities.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure robust data pipelines, governance and compliance.
• Explore opportunities to integrate AI and machine learning into Store Data Products for predictive insights and automation.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure data products adhere to governance, security and ethical standards.
• Promote data quality, discoverability, and compliance across all product initiatives.

You will need

• Understands large scale data platforms and how they can increase the scalability, availability, performance, and security of my organisation's data.
• Applies UX/UI disciplines and principles
• Experience of writing hypothesis statements and work directly with optimisation managers and/or engineers to set up and execute experiments.
• Understands large technology systems should interact with each other and track health metrics (uptime, SLOs, response time, etc).
• Experience of setting the vision and strategy for the product area
• Understand how to leverage insights to shape the vision and strategic direction of the product in line with business and Technology goals and customer expectations.
• Applies various data types in different situations and know when to use quantitative and/or qualitative data.

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full‑time & part‑time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.