Senior Product Manager - Infrastructure

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

Job summary

A leading retailer in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Product Manager to champion the developer experience and lead product vision. This role involves strategic ownership, partnership with senior stakeholders, and a focus on delivering value through strong product management practices. The position encourages an agile mindset and offers hybrid working patterns, combining office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience in product lifecycle and delivery approaches.
• Understanding of infrastructure, platforms, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Champion the developer experience for your product.
• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to define the future direction.

Skills

Customer obsession and attention to detail

Strong product mindset

Data-driven decision making

Agile mindset

Ability to influence colleagues

Job description

About the role

Our Infrastructure Product Teams are the backbone of Tesco Technology, providing the foundations that power everything we do. We design, build, and operate infrastructure products used by all our tech teams—from data centres to stores—managing everything from the ground up.

As Tesco accelerates its investment in internally developed products and services, our Senior Product Managers are shaping the next generation of developer experience. Our portfolio spans private and public cloud, connectivity, end-user computing, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring toolkits.

In this role, you’ll lead Virtual Machines as a Service, a product used by hundreds of teams and thousands of developers. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on how one of the world’s largest retailers builds and realises technology outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Champion the developer experience for your product—understand your consumers better than anyone and advocate for their needs.
• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning with Tesco’s wider technology and business goals.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to define the future direction of your product.
• Define user personas and pain points, ensuring solutions deliver real value.
• Drive adoption and performance, using OKRs to measure success.
• Prioritise effectively, making clear trade-offs and decisions with your team and peers.
• Translate ideas into actionable work, writing user stories with acceptance criteria and breaking down complex initiatives into deliverable chunks.
• Lead sprint and release planning, collaborating with engineering to maximise business value.
• Provide leadership and clarity to cross-functional teams on near‑term priorities.
• Act as the subject‑matter expert for your product area.
• Coach and mentor members of the wider product team.

Qualifications

• Customer obsession and attention to detail—you put users first.
• Strong product mindset and methods, with experience in product lifecycle and delivery approaches.
• Understanding of infrastructure, platforms, and developer experience.
• Data‑driven decision making, balancing qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Commercial awareness, understanding key business drivers and metrics.
• Agile mindset, focused on delivering incremental value.
• Ability to influence and coach colleagues across disciplines to adopt a product‑centric approach.
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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 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.