The Senior Product Marketing Manager, Competitive Intelligence is a senior individual contributor role responsible for building the analytical and competitive intelligence backbone for product and business decision-making. This role leads deep market, product, and competitor analysis to uncover strategic gaps, quantify opportunities, and shape product inbound, roadmap direction, and go-to-market decisions.
This role is centered on unpacking our product features, functionality, positioning, and future vision against a defined competitor set, then translating that analysis into clear, decision-ready recommendations for Product, PMM, and business leaders. It brings structured, market signal into roadmap decisions and helps turn product capability into measurable commercial impact.
What you will own
- Lead the competitive intelligence discipline for priority product and solution areas.
- Build and maintain frameworks for competitive benchmarking, feature teardown, opportunity sizing, and strategic comparison.
- Analyze our product portfolio against competitors across capability depth, differentiation, packaging, pricing, adoption, and future product direction.
- Quantify trade-offs, risks, and growth opportunities to support roadmap and investment decisions.
- Deliver rigorous, structured insights that influence product inbound, roadmap prioritization, and commercial strategy.
- Enable PMMs and cross-functional partners to use competitive intelligence methods at scale.
- Establish standards for CI analysis quality, confidence levels, and post-decision validation.
Core responsibilities
- Conduct product and competitor teardowns that compare current capabilities, gaps, and strategic positioning.
- Build market sizing, forecasting, and scenario models to quantify opportunity and inform prioritization.
- Perform competitive benchmarking using weighted scoring, maturity models, and capability frameworks.
- Run statistical and analytical work including regression, cohort analysis, clustering, and driver analysis to understand what drives competitive wins and losses.
- Design and analyze experiments and causal tests to validate hypotheses and measure impact.
- Develop customer preference models such as conjoint or MaxDiff when decisions require trade-off analysis.
- Translate complex findings into executive-ready recommendations, readouts, and decision memos.
- Partner closely with Product, PMM, Analytics, and leadership to shape roadmap inputs and validate strategic bets.
- Create reusable CI standards, templates, and frameworks that raise the bar across the PMM organization.
What success looks like
- Competitive intelligence is consistently used to shape product inbound and roadmap decisions early, not after the fact.
- Product and business leaders trust the role’s analysis as a source of decision-grade insight.
- The PMM organization has repeatable CI frameworks that can be applied across solution areas.
- Key product decisions are supported by clear evidence on competitive position, opportunity size, and expected impact.
- Post-launch outcomes regularly validate CI recommendations and improve future decision quality.
- CI work is recognized as a distinct discipline with measurable outcomes, calibrated within-function rather than against unrelated PMM roles.
Minimum qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, product marketing, market research, strategy, analytics, or a related field.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including comfort with modeling and structured analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to compare complex products, markets, and competitors and convert findings into strategy.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive storytelling.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in ad tech, retail media, digital platforms, SaaS, or other fast-moving product environments.
- Experience with feature teardowns, competitive benchmarking, market sizing, and experimentation.
- Comfort with statistical methods and causal analysis.
- Experience building frameworks and playbooks that scale across teams.
- Advanced degree or equivalent training in business, economics, analytics, statistics, or a related field.
Key attributes
- Highly rigorous and evidence-driven.
- Clear thinker who can simplify complexity.
- Comfortable challenging assumptions and pressure-testing product strategy.
- Strong collaborator with Product, PMM, and business partners.
- Bias toward actionable insight, not descriptive reporting
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.
San Bruno, California US-08848: The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00 - $234,000.00
Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279: The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00 - $216,000.00
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 Marketing, Business Administration, or related field and 3 years' experience in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field. Option 2: 6 years' experience in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field.Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Masters: Business AdministrationPrimary Location...850 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, product marketing, market research, strategy, analytics, or a related field
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including modeling and structured analysis
- Ability to compare complex products, markets, and competitors and convert findings into strategy
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive storytelling
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in ad tech, retail media, digital platforms, SaaS, or other fast-moving product environments
- Experience with feature teardowns, competitive benchmarking, market sizing, and experimentation
- Comfort with statistical methods and causal analysis
- Experience building frameworks and playbooks that scale across teams
- Advanced degree or equivalent training in business, economics, analytics, statistics, or a related field
- Master of Business Administration
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