Position Summary...
What you'll do...
What you'll do...
Location for this role is Bentonville, AR.
Walmart's Product team places customers and associates at the heart of everything we build. We're a curious bunch. We fall in love with the problem that needs solving and collaborate across teams to create inclusive, award-winning solutions. We dream big, but we also hold ourselves accountable for reaching our goals. We get to apply our product management expertise on the world's biggest stage. Our work has a purpose, and we see it play out in our stores and communities every day.
We build digital products to enhance the experience for millions of customers shopping with Walmart. As a part of Walmart’s eCommerce Product Org, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the voice of our customer. With the customer at the forefront, we can help save both time and money for our customers no matter how they shop with us and can reach them in new, unexpected ways. With millions of users, our scale is massive and the challenges are complex. And as one of the fastest growing functions within Walmart we value thought leaders who are customer obsessed, data-driven, and have a bias towards action.
In the Staff Product Manager, Site Discovery role you'll be responsible for creating and launching customer centric, transformational and scalable shopping experiences on the Walmart app and website. You will create and optimize inspirational shopping experiences that are relevant, easy, fun, and intuitive across Walmart’s rapidly growing assortment. You will identify customer problems and needs, define product vision, strategy, solutions and roadmaps, and execute with agility & speed. You will lead the product management lifecycle in partnership with teams such as Site Merchandising, Analytics, Data Science, UX Design, Engineering, Program Management, Personalization, Tooling and more.
How you'll make an impact...
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Conceptualize, test, deliver, and grow experiences to help customers navigate, narrow down and make confident decisions across a wide assortment of products
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Develop and enhance products by defining and managing product strategy, roadmaps, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data, turn customer insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risks
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Define vision and strategies for your product family, using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, identifying market opportunities, building business cases, and approving objectives
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Build collaborative relationships with important partners by guiding priorities aligned to business goals, communicating, and prioritizing product roadmaps, and gaining support from leadership
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Build and communicate alignment around the strategy, roadmaps, areas of focus, trade-offs, impact, and decisions
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Provide overall direction by analyzing business goals and customer needs
You’ll sweep us off our feet if...
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You are customer obsessed, data-driven, and have a bias towards action
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You evangelize product strategy and vision to leadership
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You are able to translate product strategy into detailed specifications, making functional and user interface design tradeoffs, managing product launches and owning the product successes post-launch
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You are an empathetic partner to customers and proactively anticipate requirements, influence, and guide team towards building appropriate solutions
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You are an innovative thinker and able to synthesize data from multiple sources (including analytics, user research, operations research, design, etc.) to identify key unmet needs and solutions that can address the needs
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You are data-driven and analytical to draw insights from current product performance to deliver on key user metrics
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You have the ability to work across partner teams to make the vision of the product successful
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You're excited about solving complex problems and challenges
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You're comfortable influencing others, managing stakeholders, and communicating clearly
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You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your product
Responsibilities for this role...
Product Lifecycle Management - Core PDM skills required to lead product development efforts including ability to synthesize Customer, business, systems, and design requirements into product documentation for engineering and usher that work from ideation, to launch, to scale.
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Leads the PDLC for moderately complex products.
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Leads requirements gathering for moderately complex products with large-sized cross-functional teams.
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Engage in planning and showcasing of the launch of moderately complex products.
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Resolves project conflicts and dependencies and escalate with suggested solutions.
Business & Financial Acumen - Holistically grasps essential operational, retail, and financial concepts relevant to the role and exhibits robust analytical skills applicable to crafting business cases for tech investments, comfortably making value projections.
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Conducts and articulates complex ROI analysis of solutions to complex problems with indirect values to the Customers.
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Possesses strong analytical skills; influences complex process and solution design.
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Identify root cause(s) that directly impacts KPIs & NPS.
Domain & Technical Knowledge - Thoroughly comprehends the Customer needs, business domain, the technology, and industry trends. Methodically deploys new technology solutions while managing adoption, uncertainty, and business risks.
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Identifies the Customer use cases for moderately complex products.
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Validate the performance of moderately complex products.
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Contributes to a culture driven by curiosity and awareness of technology trends/capabilities.
Strategic Thinking, Road mapping & Planning - Proactively identifies and considers innovative opportunities, product longevity, more effective and efficient solutions by actively seeking best practices from competitors, industries, and users.
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Effectively structures items in the product backlog into short-term, intermediate, and long-range technology product development plans aligning with the business strategy.
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Evangelizes moderately complex products.
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Manages a roadmap for moderately complex products.
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Defines and actualizes strategy in the development of a moderately complex product.
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Collaborates with peers for joint-roadmap development of moderately complex products.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 9 years’ experience in product management or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 6 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Primary Location...
702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
