Senior Product Manager - Edge Compute Platforms

Job Description

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.

This is a rare opportunity to take the reigns on our edge compute platform strategy - If you have experience with edge computing, distributed systems or large-scale compute environments we would love to hear from you!

This is a hybrid position with the flexibility to work from our Farringdon office in London.

• Will evolve and drive the product vision, strategy, and the long-term roadmap
• Will proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to set the future direction of my 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 my product building on my 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
• Able to coach colleagues across disciplines to adopt a product mindset, enabling value-centric decision making

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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.