Director, Product Management, AI Platform, Kroger Precision Marketing; P4644

Director, Product Management, AI Platform, Kroger Precision Marketing

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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.

• 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

• Product leadership: 6-10+ years of product management experience, including experience leading multiple product teams, domains, or complex product portfolios
• Degree Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• B2B software experience: experience leading B2B software products,…