Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Temporary Working hours 36 Apply by 29-May-2026
About the role
Tesco Labs is at the heart of innovation enabled by emerging technologies. Joining us means playing a part in defining, building and launching an ambitious roadmap that could affect the lives of millions of colleagues and customers globally.
In this role, you will be driven to deliver innovative products and inspire others to do the same. You’ll be a natural problem solver, who is outcome-oriented, innately curious and an excellent collaborator with strong communication. You will need to balance creativity with being data driven, demonstrating experience of applying robust methodology throughout product discovery and delivery.
What is 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 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 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
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
You will be responsible for
Have complete ownership of complex products, involving multiple internal/external stakeholders.
Formulate and execute the vision, strategy and roadmap for the set of products I manage, aligning this with strategic priorities.
Accountable for identifying the key measures of success (OKRs) and the resulting performance / adoption of my product(s)
Quickly build market knowledge and assess new product opportunities.
Work alongside research, design, analytics, data science and engineering teams to design and develop solutions to solve real business needs.
Lead discovery workshops, identifying disruptive and creative opportunities for innovation.
Prioritise efficiently, decisively resolving trade-offs with peers and senior leaders.
Communicate clearly, working with the HoP to make tough decisions around the future direction of any given, experiment/proof of concept/trial/product.
Plan and co-ordinate significant product efforts that have dependencies on multiple product and engineering teams.
Identify and drive improvements to the way in which product performance and service levels are measured to ensure product quality, reliability and security.
Work as part of a wider product team, with a culture for shared goals, helping where appropriate as the need arises.
You will need
Effectively worked with senior stakeholders outside of their immediate product team to market the product and gather feedback and new requirements.
Have proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to make data-driven decisions.
Taken an idea from conception to go-live, through software product development lifecycles, with measurable success across defined outcomes.
Good domain expertise in the relevant functional area/a large complex domain
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 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.