Senior Product Manager – xAPI – Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Overview

As Senior Product Manager for the xAPI Platform, you own the strategy, outcomes and backlog for Tesco’s GraphQL gateway that powers online and in-store experiences. You work closely with engineers to shape API capabilities, improve platform health and enable end-to-end retail journeys. This hands-on role blends developer needs with architecture trade-offs and business priorities to deliver a reliable, scalable platform. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and measurable impact.

Pay / Benefits

• annual bonus up to 20%
• holiday 25 days + personal day
• private medical insurance
• maternity and paternity leave
• 24/7 virtual GP
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a clear product strategy and roadmap for the xAPI Platform, aligned with the wider technology strategy
• Understand platform users (xAPI subgraph teams, client teams, contributors, service owners) and enhance their end-to-end experience
• Establish success measures for adoption, platform health, engineering efficiency and risk reduction; use data to adjust priorities
• Own, refine and prioritize the team backlog across platform capabilities, investments, and core delivery
• Make evidence-based trade-offs across reliability, security, scalability, debt, cost and speed of delivery
• Translate complex engineering opportunities into well-framed problems, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements
• Partner with engineering leadership on discovery, sequencing and delivery while preserving empowered team ownership
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and contribution pathways so changes can be safely delivered into the xAPI ecosystem
• Provide clear stakeholder communication on direction, risks, progress and outcomes (Product Governance)
• Act as the product subject-matter expert for the xAPI Platform

Key requirements

• Significant product management experience with ownership of a technically complex platform or API product
• Proven ability to manage an engineering backlog including architecture evolution, technical debt, reliability, security, tooling and feature delivery
• Strong ability to communicate a long-term product roadmap
• Knowledge of APIs and distributed systems (REST, GraphQL, schemas, versioning, authentication, caching, JSON)
• Ability to translate technical detail for diverse audiences and engage credibly in technical discussions
• Experience defining outcome-based roadmaps, OKRs or product metrics and prioritising impact
• Excellent discovery and requirements-framing skills (user stories, acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements)
• Proven stakeholder leadership across product, engineering, architecture, security, operations and senior management
• Strong judgement and decisiveness; ability to navigate incomplete information
• Excellent written and verbal communication with influencing capability

• clear stakeholder communication
• influence without authority
• data-driven decision making
• APIs and distributed systems (REST, GraphQL)
• API versioning and contracts
• authentication and security considerations

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