8451 Lead Product Manager - Applied AI bridges AI technologies and business strategies to drive AI adoption and application. Leads prototyping, use case delivery, and champions responsible AI across business teams.
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for bridging the gap between cutting-edge, foundational AI technologies and Kroger, KTD, and 84.51° business strategies. This individual will play a crucial role in understanding business needs, users’ problems and tying them back to the Kroger AI Enablement technical roadmap. This role will ensure AI initiatives and priorities are aligned with business vertical objectives to drive innovation and efficiency. They will help to drive adoption of AI capabilities across the business by being the conduit between the technical teams and the business.
Partner with business and product teams to identify, co-develop, and validate high-impact use cases
Lead Applied AI MVP and prototype delivery in close collaboration with data scientists, engineers, and UX
Drive adoption of AI Enablement capabilities, GenAI productivity tools, and reusable components across business teams
Champion responsible, explainable, and user-centered AI in all applied solutions
Lead Super Agent (orchestration) strategy and implementation for Customer-facing and Supplier-facing experiences
Serve as AI representative/lead on high-value, end-to-end initiatives, in a ‘tiger team’ capacity
Own AI Spoke Lead network (AI advocates named on each business team) through monthly meetings, regular Teams communications, and ongoing check-ins; enable AI Spoke Leads to lead AI consults on their own teams and surface high-priority opportunities to our team
Facilitate and scale AI opportunities through AI ideation workshop sessions
Track ongoing business value of AI use cases
Own core product management responsibilities, including OKRs, roadmaps, planning cycles, and day‐to‐day execution in Jira
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Qualification
Minimum Bachelor’s degreeBusiness acumen - knows the 84
Required
Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced environment that is a little unorthodox at times and will possess the following:
Minimum Bachelor’s degree
7+ years of experience influencing and driving business strategy, bridging technical and business needs, and driving cross-functional impact
Strong understanding of AI/ML and GenAI technologies, and how to apply them to business problems
Stakeholder management - proven relationship-builder with ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, facilitate workshops, influence and align diverse stakeholder groups to drive change
Technical liaison - ability to effectively translate business requirements into clear technical specifications for DSR and Engineering teams
Organize the chaos - demonstrated expertise in managing competing priorities across multiple business teams simultaneously, and ability to bring structure and clarity to complex, fast-moving environments
Proactive influence - proactively seeks out opportunities, identifies unmet needs, and drives adoption of innovation solutions rather than waiting for inbound requests
Executive-level presence - proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate organization dynamics to advance strategic initiatives, and challenge existing processes when needed
Business acumen - knows the 84.51 business, and has experience navigating KTD and GO initiatives and knows the cross-team ways of working
Process-oriented - product management experience or process-oriented mindset for OKR, cycle planning, and roadmap development
Intellectually curious and love learning new skills and capabilities, i.e., agile principles and AI technologies
