Associate Product Manager - Video Platform

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work!  These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 20 days, rising to 22 days after 12 months, plus a personal day (and bank holidays)
• Great colleague discounts and deals, saving you money on everyday purchases, utility bills for the home and more
• Retirement savings plan – save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Buy As You Earn and Save As You Earn share schemes
• Opportunities to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training to help you achieve the career you want

About the role

This role sits within the Security & Safety team within Technology Change - Store Operations and specifically within the Video Platform team.

The importance of video technology in our business operations continues to grow and so does the significant opportunity for transformation across the organisation.  Video combined with data, video analytics and computer vision models offer enhanced solutions of use cases across compliance, risk management, customer experience and operational productivity, as well as the traditional use cases of shrink and security.

Your role will be helping to execute the Product Vision to provide a secure, reliable and flexible video platform which is critical to enable a fast paced and agile response to these opportunities. Interfacing directly with end users and engineering, you will have the opportunity to affect change and introduce features that provide transformational capabilities to our business.

As the Associate Product Manager, reporting into the Senior Product Manager, you will help define, iterate and deliver against the Product Roadmap, whilst interfacing with Designers and Researchers alongside users in Stores and Support Offices to make sure that what we’re building provides a superior experience whilst driving towards overarching business objectives.

Your skills in empathy and stakeholder management will be vital in achieving our goals. This role is based in Welwyn Garden City, with the opportunity for some remote working and travel to India.

You will be responsible for

• Have accountability for a product domain, and drive product strategy, roadmap and execution
• Relentlessly seek to understand the needs and pains of my customers and business stakeholders
• Work with my team and peers to develop shared, ambitious OKRs and hold ourselves accountable to these
• Prioritise roadmaps with multiple optimisation criteria and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders
• Proactively partner with my peers and senior stakeholders to set the future direction of my product as part of the wider business strategy

You will need

• Developing excitement in others for commitment to the long-term vision
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability towards your product and team
• Ability to visualise and explain complexity to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proactively push for clarity in the face of ambiguity and continuously improve measures of success
• Appropriately and decisively balance pragmatism and methodical approaches to problem-solving
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly as well as strive to mature your Product Management skillset
• Transparency and honesty about risks and uncertainties while pushing forward and adjusting to lessons learned

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 are moving to a more blended working week – combining office and remote working.  Our offices continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  Talk to us about how this can work for you.

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