Senior Director Product Management [T500-21568]

About Albertsons Companies Inc. (ACI) :

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.

We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers’ problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons India Capability Center :

At Albertsons India Capability Center, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the company’s technology journey to support millions of customers’ lives every day.

At the Albertsons India Capability Center, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons India Capability Center, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

Senior Director, Product Management – Enterprise Item & Agentic Commerce Platforms

Location : Bengaluru, India

Function : Product Management

Reporting to :

Group Vice President, Technology & Transformation – Product, UX & Data Science (Source to Table)

About the Team :

The Source to Table organization leads critical platforms spanning :

Supply chain (demand, inventory & replenishment, Warehouse Mgmt, Transportation)

E-commerce fulfillment (order management, order promising, picking & last mile)

Enterprise Item Platforms (vendor onboarding, core item setup, enrichment, digital catalog, syndication & analytics)

Store backroom & inventory platforms (receiving, store ordering, computer-vision powered on-shelf availability)

This role focuses on Enterprise Item Platforms and Agentic Commerce – the digital backbone that powers consistent, high-quality item data everywhere our customers discover and shop our products.

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Senior Director of Product Management – Enterprise Item & Agentic Commerce Platforms to lead a global product organization owning :

Enterprise Item Platform – ACI’s home-grown item platform where vendor partners seamlessly set up and manage items, enabling us to fully sunset legacy item management platforms.

Item Golden Record & Enrichment – Scaling a single source of truth for all item information across the Albertsons ecosystem.

Agentic Commerce Platform – Building the platform that will launch and manage Albertsons SKUs across major LLM / GenAI platforms.

This is a high-impact senior leadership role reporting directly to the Group VP. You will shape the long-term strategy for digital catalog and item data, define the product vision for agentic commerce, and partner closely with Technology, Data Science, Operations, Merchandising, Digital and external partners.

The role is based in Bengaluru, India, leading teams across the US and India.

Key Job Responsibilities :

Vision & Strategy :

Define and own the multi-year product vision and strategy.

Make the digital catalog the heart of agentic commerce.

Translate enterprise strategy into a clear roadmap for item data and vendor experiences.

Product Leadership & Execution :

Lead and grow a global product team.

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platforms.

Drive end-to-end product lifecycle with clear success metrics.

Enterprise Item Platform & Vendor Experience :

Own roadmap for ACI’s home-grown enterprise item platform.

Deliver a world-class vendor onboarding and self-service experience.

Item Golden Record & Data Quality :

Define strategy for item golden record.

Partner with Data teams to design enrichment and quality pipelines.

Agentic Commerce & AI Innovation :

Lead development of an agentic commerce platform.

Ensure catalog readiness for GenAI ecosystems.

Stakeholder Management & Change Leadership :

Act as trusted advisor to senior leaders.

Lead change management and drive adoption of new platforms.

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelors Degree and MBA from a reputed institution (must-have)

15+ years overall experience; 10+ in Product Management

5+ years leading product teams at Director / Sr. Director level

Experience building and scaling platform products

Strong engineering, data and UX collaboration experience

Experience in enterprise / B2B2C environments

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience in retail, grocery, CPG, marketplace or e-commerce

Direct experience with MDM, PIM or catalog platforms

Experience with legacy platform decommissioning

Exposure to AI / ML and GenAI use cases

Strong enterprise UX understanding

Strong financial & commercial acumen

Experience in matrixed, transformation-driven environments

What You’ll Get to Build :

Shape the future of agentic commerce

Build digital catalog and item platforms powering all channels

Lead a high-visibility, high-investment portfolio with broad business impact