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Director, Product Management, AI Platform, Kroger Precision Marketing (P4644)

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8451 logo8451 · Cincinnati, OH
Full-timeOn-site1d ago
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Responsibilities

  • Set the AI vision: define the product vision and strategy for how AI shows up across KPM, anchored in customer value, commercial impact, responsible delivery, and long-term platform leverage
  • Lead the domain portfolio: manage multiple product teams across the AI Platform domain, ensuring roadmaps ladder to shared outcomes, clear sequencing, and the highest-value bets
  • Coach product leaders: develop Product Managers by helping them shape team vision, set 18-month roadmaps, clarify outcome metrics, and make stronger prioritization and tradeoff decisions
  • Define domain outcomes: establish measurable outcomes that Product, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Commercial, and Strategy teams can align around and use to guide planning and execution
  • Build the operating system: create repeatable systems, standards, and decision frameworks that help KPM teams develop AI products quickly, consistently, and safely
  • Scale reusable capabilities: guide investment in shared AI capabilities, skills, patterns, evaluation methods, and tooling that reduce duplication and accelerate product teams across the business
  • Shape go-to-market strategy: partner with Commercial and Strategy leaders to ensure product strategy informs go-to-market motions, while market needs, customer priorities, and commercial goals shape roadmap decisions
  • Align technical direction: partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Architecture leaders to define requirements, evaluate technical options, and make decisions based on risks, tradeoffs, opportunities, scalability, and platform fit
  • Coordinate across product domains: partner with peer Product Directors to align roadmaps, clarify ownership, manage dependencies, and ensure broader KPM outcomes are pursued cohesively across domains
  • Stay ahead of the market: track emerging AI strategy, retail media innovation, competitive moves, and vendor capabilities, then translate that signal into a differentiated niche KPM can credibly pursue
  • Make smart portfolio tradeoffs: balance customer needs, business value, technical readiness, risk, cost, and reuse potential to decide what to accelerate, pause, partner on, or stop
  • Drive adoption and impact: build a productionized AI engine by shipping new capabilities, iterating on released features, defining rollout plans, establishing success measures, and creating feedback loops that continuously improve quality, adoption, and business impact
  • Tell the strategic story: communicate the AI portfolio narrative, progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions with clarity for executives, cross-functional leaders, and delivery teams
  • Build a high-trust culture: create an environment where teams move fast, learn quickly, challenge assumptions, and stay accountable to shared outcomes

Requirements

  • Product leadership: 6-10+ years of product management experience, including experience leading multiple p

Benefits

Vision insurance

Additional Information

84.51° Overview: 84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase. Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing. 84.51° follows a 5‑day in‑office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection. Join us at 84.51°! __________________________________________________________ 84.51° is a retail data science, insights, and media company that helps brands grow by delivering smarter, more accountable marketing powered by Kroger's first-party data. Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) is our commercial arm, enabling brands to connect with customers through insights, incentives, and media. Role Summary Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM) has launched an AI Platform domain to define how AI is built, scaled, and used across internal teams and external brand-facing platforms. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how KPM does AI: setting the vision, strategy, and operating model that help product teams turn emerging technology into practical, trusted, production-ready capabilities. The AI Platform domain brings that strategy to life by consulting with teams on shared resources, standards, guardrails, best practices, and upskilling; accelerating innovation by building early capabilities on behalf of teams before transitioning long-term ownership; and operationalizing reusable skills, tools, access layers, and delivery patterns that reduce the path from idea to production-ready launch. This leader will have the trust and autonomy to shape strategy, take thoughtful creative bets, iterate quickly, and build the operating model needed to make AI a durable advantage for KPM.


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