Principal Product Manager - Project Beyond

We’re a confidential (NDA), AI‑first team inside Tesco, operating with startup urgency to create new customer growth. Expect end‑to‑end ownership—rapid experimentation, fast shipping, and leaning in wherever the work takes you, beyond your job title. If you’re ambitious, hard‑working, and excited to build 0→1 against tall ambitions, you’ll thrive here. Own and realise our product vision—turning insight into products customers love while advancing Tesco’s growth strategy. Move from idea to impact at venture speed, aligning teams to deliver measurable growth.

You will be responsible for:

Partner with UX to run continuous discovery loops with real customers—design, test, learn, repeat.
Rapidly prove or disprove our next inflection points—frame hypotheses, ship scrappy experiments, decide with evidence.
Own the backlog end-to-end—prioritise ruthlessly, write crisp stories, and unblock delivery.
Build and communicate a living roadmap that aligns squads, leadership, and Tesco’s business strategy.
Define, instrument, and drive our North Star metrics—create a clear path from experiments to measurable outcomes.
Balance now vs next—deliver value today while de‑risking and realising the long‑term vision, always customer‑first.
Partner with internal and partner engineers to deliver at venture speed—balance quality vs speed; design for scalability, robustness, and secure, production‑ready releases
Craft, evolve, and evangelise a living, customer‑anchored product vision and strategy—tell a compelling story that excites stakeholders, aligns teams, and ladders into Tesco’s growth strategy.

Bias to action: you move from idea to test to live quickly, and learn in the wild.
Scrappy and resourceful: you ship with the tools to hand; progress over perfection.
Customer‑obsessed: you validate with customers and let insight drive decisions.
Ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
Transparent communicator: you keep the team and stakeholders in the loop, early and often.
AI‑forward: you use AI to accelerate research, synthesis, and delivery.

You will need:

Relevant Experience

-Retail/e-commerce
-Experience working in a start-up / scale-up
End‑to‑end product leadership: apply UX/UI principles to ship intuitive experiences; turn customer research into strategy and outcomes; lead Agile delivery of small, high‑impact increments, grounded in customer empathy and high EQ.
Evidence‑led growth at venture speed: run experimentation programs at scale (A/B, MVT) with Optimisation teams; translate insights into OKRs and prioritisation.
Data, ML & platform fluency: leverage ML concepts to build impactful features; partner on large‑scale data platforms to improve availability, performance, and security; define and instrument metrics that matter.
Technical & operational excellence: understand how large systems interact; monitor uptime, SLOs, and latency; collaborate with engineering to balance speed with quality, scalability, and robustness.
Commercial acumen & influence: know the commercial drivers and P&L levers; advise on market research techniques and future trends; influence senior stakeholders to land product, business, and tech OKRs.

Operational Skills

Customer discovery & UX: plan and run UX/UI and market research, build deep customer empathy, and translate insight into clear problems, jobs, and value props.
Hypothesis‑driven product craft: design experiments, validate at speed, apply lean/agile methodologies, prioritise ruthlessly, and build/communicate a living long‑term roadmap.
Data, ML & analytics fluency: instrument North Star metrics, analyse funnels/cohorts, partner on data engineering, and apply practical ML to drive outcomes.
Technology delivery in enterprise retail: navigate Tesco/partner stacks, apply best practice enterprise architecture, balance quality vs speed, design for scalability, robustness, and security.
Strategy & commercial acumen: create product vision and strategy that ladders into Tesco’s growth goals; apply strategic thinking, problem solving, finance and procurement know‑how to unlock delivery.
Influence, change & learning: crisp communication and storytelling, stakeholder alignment and influencing, relentless curiosity, and enabling change across teams.

What's in it for you:

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
Car Cash Allowance
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Private medical insurance
Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave

About us:

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 a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

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 visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility