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Product Manager - Search
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and data-driven Product Manager to lead the development of our Search and Browse API capabilities within the Discovery team. This is a critical role that drives how customers find, explore, and engage with products across all Tesco markets and propositions. You will play a role in shaping the product vision, strategy, and execution of scalable, API-based services and intuitive customer experiences that impact key business and customer metrics.
This role can be based from Farringdon or WGC offices.
You will be responsible for:
- Dive deep into complex data sets to uncover actionable insights and emerging trends. Use these findings to drive data-informed decisions that maximize product value and support long-term strategic goals.
- Design and scale intelligent, low-latency product discovery services. Continuously tune algorithmic parameters to optimize relevance, performance, and personalization at scale.
- Lead the evolution of domain-specific APIs, while thoughtfully deprecating legacy interfaces. Ensure seamless transitions with minimal disruption to consumers and clearly quantify the value of API modernization initiatives.
- Identify and champion new opportunities to apply advanced search and browse capabilities across diverse markets, platforms, and digital channels. Enhancing the reach and versatility of discovery experiences.
- Translate business goals, user needs, and market dynamics into a forward-looking product roadmap. Prioritize initiatives that deliver measurable value, enhance agility, and position the organization for future growth.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Data Scientists—to execute the roadmap using agile practices. Facilitate prioritisation, resolve blockers, and ensure customer-centricity is woven into every feature, sprint, and release.
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You will need
- Experience working across both backend and frontend product areas, with the ability to move confidently between technical platform work and customer-facing journeys.
- Curiosity and comfort working with technical systems — particularly APIs — and the ability to translate that understanding into clear product direction.
- Experience delivering within complex, fast-moving product domains where multiple initiatives run in parallel.
- Strong collaboration skills with engineering teams, including the ability to engage in technical discussions and shape decisions in an API-driven environment.
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 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
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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.
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