Associate Product Manager

About the role

About the xAPI Product Team

xAPI is Tesco’s aggregation and orchestration GraphQL gateway powering our online and in‑store customer experiences. It enables all our client applications—Grocery Home Shopping (Web & App), Clubcard, Payment flows, Store digital experiences and more—to access consistent, performant, and secure data from across the Retail Platform.

The xAPI team works across the full lifecycle of platform products, solving complex technical problems, shaping API capabilities, collaborating with engineering and downstream service teams, and enabling end‑to‑end retail journeys.

As an APM, you will contribute to a core platform used every minute by millions of customers.

The Role - Associate Product Manager - xAPI

As an APM, you will support senior PMs and engineers in delivering the business & platform roadmap for Tesco’s GraphQL gateway. You’ll manage the product backlog, help define requirements, coordinate with internal clients, and ensure we deliver customer‑centred, robust API capabilities.

This is a learning‑focused role: perfect for someone early in their PM career who is eager to build strong platform, API, and stakeholder‑management skills.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Keep the product backlog organised, prioritised, and groomed; write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Learn and apply agile product management practices across Scrum.

• Understand how GraphQL and APIs enable Tesco experiences; work with engineers to translate client needs into platform capabilities.

• Perform risk and issue management planning, identification, analysis, responses, monitoring and control on the platform to minimise the risks and incidents, increase the responsiveness and platform availability.

• Coordinate with internal client teams (Online UI, API teams such as Fulfilment, Payments, Customer Order etc.) to understand needs and ensure smooth integration with xAPI.

• Maintain up‑to‑date documentation (API specs, guidelines, release notes) in GitHub and Confluence

• Collaborate with QA and engineering to support automation and testing best practices.

• Ensure compliance with GDPR, security, and internal platform standards.

• Act as an advocate for the xAPI platform and help clients understand best practices and constraints.

You will be responsible for

Key Skills and Experience

You don’t need to be an expert—just strong fundamentals and curiosity. The ideal candidate will have:

Required

• Foundational understanding of APIs, GraphQL concepts (queries, mutations, schemas), and how client applications use backend data.

• Exposure to or interest in distributed systems, API gateways, or platform products.

• Ability to break down complex problems and propose structured, pragmatic solutions.

• Strong organisational and analytical skills; ability to manage multiple inputs and keep teams aligned.

• Clear, adaptable communication skills—comfortable working with engineering, design, and business stakeholders.

• Ability to learn quickly, ask the right questions, and work independently when needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, analytical, or business field (Computer Science/IT preferred but not mandatory).

You will need

Nice to Have

• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, or working in agile teams.

• Familiarity with GitHub, API documentation tools, or GraphQL development tools (e.g., Apollo, GraphiQL).

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter. 

• Able to build solid working relationships with the product teams, design, optimisation teams and engineering, peers and senior leadership.

• Curious, proactive personality with the positive approach to learning and constant challenges.

• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to evolving problem spaces.

• Customer and outcome‑obsessed; motivated to enable seamless retail journeys.

• A team player who values continuous improvement and integrity.

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 
 
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 
 
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.  
 
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 
 
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 
 
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy. 
 
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 
 
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 
 
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.  
 
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.  
 
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.  
 
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 

About Us
At Tesco, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We believe in treating everyone fairly and with respect, valuing individuality and uniqueness to create a true sense of belonging. Diversity and inclusion are deeply embedded in our values—we treat people how they want to be treated. Our goal is for all colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work, and we are committed to helping them thrive. Across the Tesco group, we are building an inclusive workplace that actively celebrates the cultures, personalities, and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn contribute to the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. 
 
 At Tesco Bengaluru, we are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, highlighting our commitment to creating a supportive environment for individuals with disabilities. We are dedicated to offering equal opportunities for all candidates and encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. Our recruitment process is fully accessible, and we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments during interviews. If you need any accommodations to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know. We are here to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed. 
 
 We also believe in fostering a work environment where you can excel both professionally and personally. Our hybrid model allows you to work flexibly—spend 60% of your week collaborating in person with colleagues at our office locations or local sites, and the rest of the time working remotely. We understand that everyone’s life journey is unique, whether you are starting your career, pursuing passions, or navigating life changes, and we are here to support you. Flexibility is a core part of our culture, and we encourage open conversations about how we can best accommodate your needs, so talk to us throughout your application process on the support required.

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