Senior Product Manager - Tesco Labs - Innovation

As a Senior Product Manager in Tesco Labs, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering innovative products that solve meaningful problems for customers, colleagues and the business. You’ll take end-to-end ownership of complex product areas, staying relentlessly focused on outcomes while operating confidently in ambiguity. Blending creativity with evidence and rigour, you’ll apply strong discovery and delivery practices to turn ideas into measurable real-world impact. This role requires deep product judgement, clear decision-making and the ability to influence across disciplines and seniority levels. Working closely with research, design, data, engineering and external partners, you’ll help shape the future of retail at scale.

While responsibilities will evolve with the needs of Tesco, the following outlines the core scope of the role:

• Own complex products end to end, often involving multiple internal teams and external partners.

• Define and execute product vision, strategy and roadmaps, aligning product direction with Tesco and Labs strategic priorities.

• Be accountable for product success, including defining clear success measures (OKRs) and driving adoption, performance and learning.

• Rapidly develop domain, customer and market understanding to assess opportunities and shape informed product decisions.

• Work closely with research, design, analytics, data science and engineering to discover, design, build and iterate solutions to real business problems.

• Lead structured discovery and experimentation, including workshops, hypotheses, MVPs, trials and proofs of concept.

• Develop a deep understanding of user and stakeholder needs, and relentlessly advocate for the problems worth solving.

• Prioritise decisively, resolving trade-offs in collaboration with peers and senior leaders.

• Influence product direction, working with the Head of Product to make clear, evidence-based decisions on which initiatives to progress, pivot or stop.

• Continuously measure and communicate value, ensuring stakeholders understand progress, impact and learning.

• Plan and co-ordinate complex cross-team initiatives, managing dependencies across multiple product and engineering teams.

• Drive improvements in quality, reliability, security and measurement, helping raise the overall product bar.

• Contribute to a strong product culture, supporting shared goals and collaborating across the wider product community.

• Engage with external networks, partners and suppliers to evaluate technologies, solutions and potential collaborations.