Director, Technical Program Management, Enterprise Prioritization Enablement

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

19h•$130,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Technical Program Management – Enterprise Prioritization Enablement plays a critical role in operationalizing Walmart’s enterprise product priorities by connecting strategy, product intent, and engineering execution. This leader supports the enterprise prioritization agenda by driving alignment, surfacing tradeoffs, and ensuring clarity across complex, cross-functional initiatives. Operating at the Director level, this role is highly hands-on and execution-oriented, while still requiring strong strategic judgment and technical depth. The Director partners closely with Enterprise and Segment Strategy teams, Product leaders, and Engineering teams to translate priorities into executable plans, produce executive-ready materials, and manage interdependencies that impact delivery, sequencing, and value realization. This position is essential to ensuring that enterprise decision-making is informed by real engineering capacity, platform dependencies, and technical constraints — enabling leaders to make grounded, high-quality prioritization decisions. This role involves partnering with Strategy, Product, and Engineering leaders to support prioritization efforts, focusing on enterprise, segment, and functional priorities. It also includes driving the development and maintenance of materials, templates, and documentation for priority reporting updates across various forums, and preparing content and analysis for Executive Committee Forums, covering risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decision points. The Director will analyze platform dependencies, technical constraints, and engineering capacity to inform prioritization, sequencing, and resourcing. They will translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for executive understanding, identify and manage cross-team dependencies, and build cross-functional partnerships. Monitoring execution progress, defining and applying enterprise prioritization frameworks, and partnering with various leads to improve consistency in ways of working, communication, and execution discipline are also key. Finally, the role supports senior leaders with structured analysis, options, and recommendations to accelerate decision-making.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, product management, or a related technical leadership role.
Proven experience driving complex, cross-functional programs with significant technical dependencies.
Demonstrated ability to simplify highly complex, ambiguous technical and organizational problems into clear, actionable deliverables and insights.
Strong understanding of engineering practices, system architecture, platform dependencies, APIs, cloud technologies, and capacity planning.
Ability to assess and explain engineering tradeoffs and constraints in the context of business priorities.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience creating executive-facing materials.
Ability to adapt messaging for a wide range of audiences, from deep technical discussions to executive decision forums.
Demonstrated ability to influence across teams and functions without formal authority.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in ambiguity and rapidly changing environments.
Bias toward action and ownership – comfortable getting into the details to design, test, and implement solutions, not just recommend them.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
Option 2: 9 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.

Nice To Haves

Experience mentoring TPMs or leading small teams is a plus.
Certification in Project Management.
Master’s degree in Business Administration, with specialization in strategy, supply chain, finance, information systems, or related area and 5 years’ experience in product design.
Supervisory experience.
Knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
Knowledge of accessibility best practices and Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

Partner with Strategy, Product, and Engineering leaders to support prioritization efforts, with a focus on enterprise, segment, and functional priorities.
Drive development and maintenance of materials, templates, and documentation used for priority reporting updates across EC, GLM, and Global Product Area forums.
Prepare content and analysis to support Executive Committee Forums, including risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decision points.
Analyze platform dependencies, technical constraints, and engineering capacity to inform prioritization, sequencing, and resourcing decisions.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear, fact-based narratives that enable executive understanding and alignment.
Identify and manage cross-team dependencies, ensuring alignment across product areas and engineering teams.
Build trusted cross-functional partnerships across segments.
Monitor execution progress across multiple programs, proactively identifying risks, issues, and opportunities for course correction.
Define and apply enterprise prioritization and tracking frameworks that help teams dynamically re-sequence work as conditions change.
Partner with TPMs, product managers, engineering leads, and business strategy partners to improve consistency in ways of working, communication, and execution discipline.
Support senior leaders by providing structured analysis, options, and recommendations that accelerate decision-making.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting time off
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption expense reimbursement
Surrogacy expense reimbursement
Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates.