84.51˚ · 6 hours ago
Lead Product Manager - Agentic Foundations (P4476)
Cincinnati, OH
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$121K/yr - $201K/yr
4+ years exp84.51° is a retail data science, insights, and media company seeking a Lead Product Manager for its Agentic Foundations team. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining the agentic backbone of the Kroger enterprise, while partnering closely with engineering and data science leads to ensure high-value capability delivery.
Management Consulting
Hiring Manager
Sarah Small-Sadler
Responsibilities
Own product discovery and roadmap for products in the Agentic Foundations area
Maintain a current roadmap and communicate trade-offs, dependencies, and timelines to stakeholders and delivery teams
Translate business goals, user needs, and technical constraints into product requirements and acceptance criteria with a clear definition of done
Partner with the Agentic Foundations leadership, as well as engineering and data science leads, to plan quarters/cycles/sprints and ensure efficient, predictable delivery
Define and evolve core agentic capabilities, including:
Registries (agent/MCP/scorer/prompt), templates, and pattern libraries
Agent development and monitoring tools, including evaluation frameworks and observability
Low-code/no-code agent platforms and SDKs/APIs/UIs that abstract complexity
Integration with enterprise AIOps/MLOps, CI/CD, and governance workflows
Facilitate user research and testing to understand developer and business user workflows; validate usability, safety, reliability, and performance
Analyze product usage and operational data to inform prioritization, measure value, and guide iteration
Drive adoption across customer teams through documentation, enablement, demos, and feedback loops; remove friction points and champion best practice
Ensure alignment with enterprise strategies for scale, reliability, safety, compliance, and cost-efficiency
Manage progress toward objectives; proactively surface risks, blocks, and cross-team dependencies; coordinate mitigation plans
Develop strong internal and external stakeholder relationships; influence and drive change in ambiguous, evolving environments
Communicate realized value and outcomes, including usage, adoption, productivity improvements, and risk reduction
Qualification
Required
Professional experience in agentic systems and platforms
Professional experience in a product/software development team
Professional experience in managing technical and business stakeholders
Professional experience in ambiguous environments
Skilled in a general technical acumen, able to efficiently converse with software engineers and AI engineers and understand their development processes
Skilled in managing cross-functional technical development teams in an agile environment
Skilled in managing business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps
Skilled in managing end-to-end software product development
Skilled in problem solving, analytic thinking, and creativity
Skilled in planning, organization, and verbal/written business communication
Skilled in maintaining a positive leader persona in ambiguous and changing environments
Skilled in quickly flexing between technical and business stakeholder conversations, adapting to a variety of audiences
Demonstrated excellence as a teammate and leader
4-6 years relevant experience
Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
Benefits
Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.
Company
84.51˚
84.51° helps companies create sustainable growth by putting the customer at the center of everything.
1001-5000 employees
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