The AI Enablement team at 84.51° is seeking a Lead Product Manager for its Agentic Foundations team. This team is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the agentic backbone of the Kroger enterprise, including platforms, patterns, and tools to support the best practice development of AI agents.
Requirements
- 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
- Define and evolve core agentic capabilities, including: Registries (agent/MCP/scorer/prompt), templates, and pattern libraries
- 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
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.
