Lead Product Manager - AI Gateway; P4552

84.51° Overview

84.51° is a retail data science, insights, and media company that helps The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers, and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase. Our solutions are powered by first‑party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program, enabling a customer‑centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing, and Kroger Precision Marketing.

We follow a 5‑day in‑office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection.

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The AI Enablement team builds foundational AI capabilities that transform Kroger and 84.51° across better solutions and outcomes for shoppers and associates. AI Gateway is a cross‑functional team within AI Enablement that owns the primary AI infrastructure, democratizing access to AI models.

As the Product Owner for AI Gateway, you will work closely with the AI Gateway Product Director, product tech leads, and cross‑functional design and development teams.

The Lead Product Manager is the chief navigator, business champion, and team linguist that is accountable for setting team priorities and maximizing the value of the product results from the work of the development team. You own the details of the business and technical value delivered at the team level, translate business requirements into product requirements, and ensure the product delivers on user needs.

You own the measurement of the value delivered and other metrics for your product. This role requires excellent organizational and communication skills, technical acumen, and AI domain knowledge.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with the Kroger Family of Companies (e.g. H1‑B, F‑1 OPT, TN, or other non‑immigrant status).

• Drive business value for the team by prioritizing and ordering product backlog items based on the product roadmap, inclusive of product, engineering, UX, and data science roadmaps.
• Manage multiple teams’ product backlogs in parallel and ensure they’re transparent, visible, and clearly communicated.
• Partner with cross‑functional engineering, UX, and data science peers to translate business desires and requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development.
• Outline clear acceptance criteria and define the definition of “done.”
• Partner with external contractors or technical support to ensure delivery of the scope of work within the agreed timeline and according to the stated acceptance criteria.
• Deeply understand the business domain, stakeholders, business processes, and constraints in which your product(s) play.
• Deeply understand customers/users’ problems, how they think and operate, and the platforms/technology they use. Ability to become familiar with new technology, business domains, and analytical practices that impact your product(s).
• Understand and communicate organization objectives, strategies, and solution needs to the team to facilitate results.
• Manage and communicate dependencies and risks.
• Stakeholder management—build and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change.
• Use product data to influence product decisions and roadmap—both quantitative and qualitative.
• Clearly communicate the value of the work being delivered.

• Professional work experience in artificial intelligence / Generative AI applications.
• Skilled in managing cross‑functional software development teams in an agile environment.
• Skilled in managing business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps.
• Skilled in end‑to‑end software product development.
• Strong stakeholder management skills; experience building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change.
• Problem‑solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Planning, organizational, and time‑management skills.
• Comfort with…