Product Manager (Identity)

Tesco Technology; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 200,880 - 267,840; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 20% yearly salary bonus

Permanent contract

Private healthcare (LuxMed)

Learning opportunities through Udemy

Increased annual leave

Back-to-school day

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Tesco Technology is seeking a Product Manager in Kraków to lead strategies for the Identity service. The role requires strong technical skills, 3+ years of agile product management experience, and excellent communication abilities. You will work closely with teams to deliver projects iteratively while ensuring stakeholder requirements are met.

This hybrid position offers a salary of 18,000 – 24,000 PLN gross monthly, with permanent contracts and benefits including bonuses and private healthcare.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Product Management in agile environments.
• Strong technical skills with APIs and cloud services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development plans and shape the overall strategy.
• Work with developers to deliver value iteratively.
• Create clear documentation that an engineering team can act upon.

Skills

Product Management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Prioritization

Team collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Aha!

Job description

Identity sits at the heart of this ‘Retail Platform’ across Tesco. The gateway to everything: user interactions, non‑human interactions, payments, account access and the Clubcard Experience. With billions of API calls across the Identity service each month, and with multiple scrum teams all focused on the same goal: continuous authentication, everywhere. The right candidate will be able to freely translate from technical to non‑technical terms and help close the communications gap between engineering and the rest of the company and be aware of trends and innovations that could help the Identity API which is responsible for billions of authentications each week.

Responsibilities

• Experienced in Product Management, working in an agile or scrum environment for 3+ years.
• Getting involved and working with a team of developers to deliver value iteratively.
• Strong technical skills working predominately with APIs, Cloud Services, Identity frameworks – ideally from an engineering background.
• Leading the development plans: shaping the overall strategy, defining and prioritising business requirements and working with the different business units to ensure their plans are integrated.
• Work with other Product Managers, architects and the development team to deliver the roadmap using agile methodologies: prioritising requirements, answering development questions and resolving issues, always putting the customer first.
• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

You will need

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: ability to create clear and clean documentation that an engineering team can understand, and act upon (main tools: Jira, Confluence, Aha!).
• Highly developed stakeholder management skills: equally at home interacting effectively with an Engineer, and senior team member or peers from across the business or beyond Tesco (suppliers, partners, vendors).
• Great prioritisation and time management skills: able to balance off competing priorities and take a value‑based prioritisation approach across it all.
• A methodical/analytical approach and great problem‑solving skills – often from a ‘first principles’ basis.
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly.
• Great presentation and persuasion skills.
• Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team.
• Ownership, responsiveness and commitment towards assigned work.
• Strong decision making and prioritization skills, especially when multiple trade‑offs are involved and faster decisions are required.
• Expertise of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/acceptance criterions.
• Great people skills and can gain respect and trust of team members and others working with you.

Experience

• Good domain expertise in the relevant functional area/ a large complex domain.
• Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical acumen.
• Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.
• Understands the impact tech debt is causing and the value tech upgrades can bring in, and can hold objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritise it during any sprint.
• Experience working with OKRs highly preferred.

Salary

UoP: 18 000 – 24 000 PLN gross/month.

Hybrid working

The role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.

Benefits

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance.
• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities.
• Tax‑deductible expenses (IP).
• Private healthcare (LuxMed).
• Cafeteria & Multisport.
• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well‑being and family life.
• Increase in annual leave (from 20 to 25 days) for those not yet eligible for the full holiday entitlement.
• Learning opportunities – certified technical training and a learning platform (Udemy).
• Back‑to‑school day – 1 day off for parents of primary school children.
• Fertility leave – up to 2 weeks of paid leave for IVF treatment.
• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office.
• Referral bonuses.
• MacBook as your work tool.

We champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. We are committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process and to support candidates with any reasonable adjustments they may require.