Product Manager (Time API's)

Tesco Poland; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Kraków is seeking a Product Manager to drive the vision, strategy and roadmap for the Time API suite and related scheduling work. You will collaborate with engineers, senior leaders and business partners to translate requirements into technical stories and maintain clarity across teams.

The role includes onboarding and evolving APIs while Tesco expands to serve more clients and use cases. The position emphasizes strong communication, prioritisation and problem-solving, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create clear documentation for engineering teams.
• Highly developed stakeholder management skills across engineers and senior leadership.
• Strong prioritisation and time management with value-based decisions.
• Methodical/analytical approach and problem-solving from first principles.
• Ability to learn new product areas quickly and adapt to change.
• Excellent presentation and persuasion skills.
• Team player with ownership and responsiveness.
• Strong decision-making with multiple trade-offs.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies; writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Drive the product vision, strategy and roadmap.
• Proactively partner with stakeholders on business requirements.
• Understand personas the products support.
• Prioritise work with business, senior leaders and engineering.
• Maintain documentation turning non-technical requirements into technical stories.
• Support production issues highlighted by teams.
• Initially maintain and develop Time APIs; later support frontend applications that API supports.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Documentation writing

Prioritisation

Agile methodologies

Story writing / acceptance criteria

Communication

Presentation skills

Team collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Aha!

Job description

You will work within the Enabling Functions team, supporting our colleagues contractual shift patterns and weekly schedules (Time).

The primary function is to support our 2 existing API’s (Contracted Shifts and Planned Schedules) with BAU activities, including onboarding but also the continuous development of these API’s while our platform continues to evolve to support more clients, more business areas and business requirements while we try to expand but simplify processes.

As a Product Manager you will be expected to;

• Drive the product vision, strategy and roadmap
• Proactively partner with stakeholders and peers on shared and independent business requirements
• Understand the different persona’s that your products will support
• Prioritise work decisively, working with the business, senior leaders and engineering
• Maintain documentation that will explain requirements for engineering and other business stakeholders, converting non-technical requirements into technical stories
• Support any production related issues that are highlighted

Whilst the initial primary responsibility will be the maintenance and development of the Time API’s, there is a longer-term vision that you will support a number of front-end applications that the API’s support.

Mandatory skills:

• 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 decision 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

Nice to have skills:

• Good domain expertise in colleague scheduling / payment processes
• Understanding of the business

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