Senior Product Manager - Edge Compute Platforms

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a skilled individual to lead the edge compute platform strategy. You will collaborate with stakeholders to shape the product vision and ensure effective automation and orchestration. The ideal candidate has expertise in virtualization platforms and experience in distributed environments. The role offers a hybrid working model, ensuring flexibility and work-life balance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 20%

25 days holiday plus personal day

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity and adoption leave

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Qualifications

• Understanding distributed edge environments and their challenges.
• Experience in delivering virtualization platforms that meet consumer and business needs.
• Skilled in building automation and orchestration capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Evolve and drive the product vision and strategy.
• Partner with senior stakeholders for product direction.
• Document and explain new requirements to the engineering team.

Skills

Understanding distributed edge environments

Delivering virtualisation platforms

Building automation and orchestration capabilities

Market research engagement

Data prioritization

Coaching colleagues

Tools

VMware

Proxmox

Job description

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Permanent • Apply by 09-Dec-2025

The edge Infrastructure Product & Engineering team design, develop and operate all infrastructure used by Tesco Technology across our offices, stores and distribution centres. This encompasses multiple domains; connectivity, end-user computing, CI/CD and observability. This includes both 3rd party and internally developed infrastructure applications and infrastructure that support the wider Tesco business.

This role is accountable for our edge compute platform strategy including hypervisors with associated control planes and observability and server build & deployment automation/orchestration.

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

• Will evolve and drive the product vision, strategy, and the long-term roadmap
• Will proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to set the future direction of my product as part of the wider business strategy
• Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for the product and their pain points.
• Accountable for the performance/ adoption of the product and work towards achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs)
• Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories with acceptance criteria and help the team in breaking down complex work into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.
• Steer sprint/ release planning sessions by working with the engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort
• Drive the acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product teams and engineering stakeholders
• Prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently
• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional team (s) on short-term tasks/ near-term priorities
• Be the subject matter expert for my product building on my history of delivering value to customers

You will need

• Understand distributed edge environments and the associated challenges they bring
• Experienced in delivering virtualisation platforms that meet consumer and business needs, specifically VMware and Proxmox
• Skilled in building automation and orchestration capabilities to deploy software & hardware in distributed environments
• Actively engaged in market research, leveraging insights to shape product vision and strategic direction in line with business, technology goals, and customer expectations
• Skilled in applying various data types appropriately, knowing when to use quantitative and/or qualitative data
• Recognise the importance of using data to prioritise and adopting a consistent approach to prioritisation
• Able to coach colleagues across disciplines to adopt a product mindset, enabling value-centric decision making

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.