About the Data & AI Product Team
The Data & AI Product team develops and manages the data and AI/ML products that power intelligent decisions, personalisation, and actionable insights across Tesco. We partner closely with Customer (Insights, Marketing, Group functions), Finance, Commercial and Technology teams to enable scalable, high quality data capabilities across the business.
In this role, you'll contribute to building and improving a suite of customer data products - including insights datasets, segmentation capabilities and audience filters - used across the organisation to better understand and engage our customers.
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What You'll Be Responsible For
Responsibilities may evolve as business needs change, but your role will include:
Product Strategy & Planning (in partnership with Lead PM)
Support the Lead Product Manager in shaping the vision, strategy and roadmap for customer data products aligned to our Group Personalisation & Customer Data strategy.
Contribute market research, user insights and problem framing to inform prioritisation and roadmap decisions.
Delivery & Execution
Translate product strategy into actionable work: writing user stories, refining backlog items, and supporting sprint planning for your squad.
Manage the product backlog across the opportunity -> idea -> product -> sprint lifecycle.
Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and aligned to value outcomes.
Driving Measurable Value
Champion a value-first mindset by defining and tracking OKRs/KPIs for your product area.
Gather evidence and data to support decision making and measure the impact of product changes.
User-Centricity
Build a strong understanding of user personas, customer journeys and stakeholder needs.
Identify pain points within customer data consumption workflows and prioritise opportunities accordingly.
Ensure products deliver meaningful improvements for downstream users (e.g., Insights, Marketing, Personalisation, Analytics).
Experimentation & Discovery
Apply a hypothesis driven, learn fast approach in collaboration with engineering and data science teams.
Support early-stage discovery work (e.g., MVP definition, validation experiments, prototyping).
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with data engineering, data science, architects and analytics teams to deliver high quality customer data products.
Contribute to alignment across stakeholders, proactively sharing progress and managing expectations.
Issue Resolution & Trade-offs
Support the triage and prioritisation of live product issues.
Help balance competing demands across user needs, technical constraints and business value.
Key Skills & Experience You'll Need
Essential Customer Data Expertise
Experience working with customer data, ideally in a retail or membership based business.
Strong exposure to Customer Insights datasets, including behavioural and descriptive data.
Hands-on experience with customer segmentation, propensity/rule-based audience creation or customer filtering solutions.
Understanding of identity and profile data used for customer level personalisation and communications.
Product Management Experience
Experience working through the product lifecycle from discovery to delivery.
Ability to break down complex requirements into actionable product features.
Comfortable using data (qualitative + quantitative) to inform decisions and prioritisation.
Familiar with product methodologies, Agile ways of working and writing effective user stories/acceptance criteria.
Technical & Analytical Skills
Ability to work with data engineering, analysis and data science teams to build scalable solutions.
Understanding of large-scale data platforms, data quality concepts and data governance.
Experience using product tools (e.g., Aha!, Jira) to manage backlogs and communicate roadmaps.
Stakeholder & Communication Skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to present ideas clearly.
Ability to collaborate across teams and build trusted relationships.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and problem solving in complex environments.
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Key Competencies
Customer Empathy
Data Analytics & Insights
Segmentation & Personalisation Understanding
Agile Product Delivery
Prioritisation & Roadmapping
Experimentation & Validation
UX/UI Awareness
Problem Solving & Critical Thinking
Communication & Influencing