Senior Product Manager - Edge Compute Platforms

Tesco UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the United Kingdom is looking for a professional to drive the product strategy for edge compute platforms. This role includes collaboration with senior stakeholders and leadership of cross-functional teams to enhance product value and adoption. The ideal candidate will have experience in virtualization and strong analytical skills to shape product vision aligned with business goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in product management and development.
• Strong understanding of edge computing and virtualization.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the product strategy and roadmap for the edge compute platform.
• Partner with stakeholders to align product direction.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

User story creation

Data-driven decision-making

Experience with VMware

Experience with Proxmox

Automation skills

Market research

Job description

About Tesco Technology

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.

Role Overview

This role is accountable for our edge compute platform strategy including hypervisors with associated control planes and observability, and server build & deployment automation/orchestration. It will evolve and drive the product vision, strategy, and the long‑term roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to set the future direction of the 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 the product, building on history of delivering value to customers.
• 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. We celebrate diversity and 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.

Our Vision

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’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.