Principal Product Manager

Albertsons Companies; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Albertsons Companies is seeking a Principal Product Manager - Digital Product Management within the Customer & Commercial Product organization. You will evaluate, shape, and advance emerging priorities before they become established roadmap commitments, translating opportunities into clear customer problems and actionable plans.

The role operates at the intersection of strategy, customer value, rapid validation, and cross-functional execution, requiring strong judgment, stakeholder influence,

Responsibilities

• Lead the evaluation and incubation of emerging priorities across the Customer & Commercial Product organization.
• Translate loosely defined opportunities into clear customer problems, hypotheses, value propositions, and decision criteria.
• Rapidly assess strategic relevance, customer and commercial value, dependencies, risks, and investment requirements.
• Identify the minimum set of questions that must be answered to determine whether an opportunity should advance.
• Develop clear recommendations on whether to test, invest, defer, scale, or stop an initiative.
• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Engineering, and business teams to quickly generate the evidence required for investment and staffing decisions.
• Balance analytical rigor with speed, ensuring that teams answer the most important questions without over-engineering early-stage work.
• Translate customer, business, and operational signals into clear implications and next steps.
• Ensure emerging priorities are grounded in measurable outcomes and explicit success criteria.
• Serve as the product lead for emerging priorities, creating clarity on the customer problem, desired outcome, scope, tradeoffs, and path forward.
• Partner closely with Engineering leaders and teams to understand feasibility, effort, sequencing, and key constraints.
• Bring together the right cross-functional partners to shape solutions and establish a practical path to validation.
• Use strong institutional knowledge and relationships to quickly engage the right stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Challenge assumptions, surface tradeoffs, and maintain a strong focus on customer and business outcomes.
• Maintain and continuously prioritize a portfolio of emerging priorities based on strategic importance, urgency, customer and commercial value, organizational capacity, and dependencies.
• Develop decision-grade recommendations that clearly articulate assumptions, evidence, risks, tradeoffs, and required investment.
• Provide leadership with concise and timely perspectives on which opportunities warrant further investment and which should not advance.
• Help determine when an emerging priority has sufficient evidence and alignment to transition into an established roadmap or dedicated product team.
• Ensure validated priorities transition with clear ownership, objectives, measures of success, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Bring together Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Marketing, Loyalty, Commercial, Operations, and other partners to establish alignment and accelerate progress.
• Translate emerging priorities into clear workplans, milestones, decision points, ownership, and accountability mechanisms.
• Maintain momentum across multiple concurrent priorities and quickly surface issues that require leadership intervention.
• Drive disciplined follow-through across teams and ensure commitments translate into action.
• Influence senior stakeholders and partner teams without direct authority.

Job description

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who's not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that's constantly evolving.

We are seeking a highly strategic and execution-oriented product leader to serve as Principal Product Manager - Digital Product Management within the Customer & Commercial Product organization. This role will be responsible for evaluating, shaping, and advancing emerging priorities before they become established roadmap commitments or fully staffed initiatives.

This role will operate at the intersection of product strategy, customer and commercial opportunity, rapid validation, and cross-functional execution. The Principal Product Manager will take ambiguous and often time-sensitive opportunities, determine what needs to be learned, align the right partners, and develop decision-grade recommendations on whether and how the organization should proceed.

This role requires a highly connected product leader with strong institutional knowledge, excellent product judgment, and the ability to move quickly across organizational boundaries. The ideal candidate combines customer orientation, strategic thinking, structured problem solving, and a bias toward action, with the ability to influence without formal authority and drive accountability in a fast-moving environment.

Main responsibilities:

Emerging Priority Assessment & Incubation

• Lead the evaluation and incubation of emerging priorities across the Customer & Commercial Product organization.
• Translate loosely defined opportunities into clear customer problems, hypotheses, value propositions, and decision criteria.
• Rapidly assess strategic relevance, customer and commercial value, dependencies, risks, and investment requirements.
• Identify the minimum set of questions that must be answered to determine whether an opportunity should advance.
• Develop clear recommendations on whether to test, invest, defer, scale, or stop an initiative.

Rapid Validation & Product Discovery

• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, Engineering, and business teams to quickly generate the evidence required for investment and staffing decisions.
• Balance analytical rigor with speed, ensuring that teams answer the most important questions without over-engineering early-stage work.
• Translate customer, business, and operational signals into clear implications and next steps.
• Ensure emerging priorities are grounded in measurable outcomes and explicit success criteria.

Product Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Serve as the product lead for emerging priorities, creating clarity on the customer problem, desired outcome, scope, tradeoffs, and path forward.
• Partner closely with Engineering leaders and teams to understand feasibility, effort, sequencing, and key constraints.
• Bring together the right cross-functional partners to shape solutions and establish a practical path to validation.
• Use strong institutional knowledge and relationships to quickly engage the right stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Challenge assumptions, surface tradeoffs, and maintain a strong focus on customer and business outcomes.

Portfolio Prioritization & Decision Support

• Maintain and continuously prioritize a portfolio of emerging priorities based on strategic importance, urgency, customer and commercial value, organizational capacity, and dependencies.
• Develop decision-grade recommendations that clearly articulate assumptions, evidence, risks, tradeoffs, and required investment.
• Provide leadership with concise and timely perspectives on which opportunities warrant further investment and which should not advance.
• Help determine when an emerging priority has sufficient evidence and alignment to transition into an established roadmap or dedicated product team.
• Ensure validated priorities transition with clear ownership, objectives, measures of success, dependencies, and resource requirements.

Cross-Functional Alignment & Execution

• Bring together Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Marketing, Loyalty, Commercial, Operations, and other partners to establish alignment and accelerate progress.
• Translate emerging priorities into clear workplans, milestones, decision points, ownership, and accountability mechanisms.
• Maintain momentum across multiple concurrent priorities and quickly surface issues that require leadership intervention.
• Drive disciplined follow-through across teams and ensure commitments translate into action.
• Influence senior stakeholders and partner teams without direct authority.

Executive Synthesis & Commun