Group Director, Product Management - Search & Discovery Experiences

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

6d • $254,000 - $481,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Walmart is seeking an experienced Group Director of Product Management to lead Search, Discovery, and emerging shopping experiences across its digital ecosystem. The role will shape how customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products as shopping increasingly includes AI-powered experiences and agents. The leader will set a multi-year strategy for AI-enabled shopping and agentic commerce while directing near-term roadmaps, experimentation, and operating mechanisms to deliver customer and business impact.

This leader will own strategy and roadmaps for search, AI-powered search, product discovery and inspiration, product comparison and decision support, personalized and context-aware discovery, conversational and multimodal shopping, and discovery quality and optimization. They will establish a unified approach to customer intent, relevance, personalization, assortment exploration, and business outcomes, and develop strong methods for experimentation, evaluation, and measurement.

As a leader of leaders, the Group Director will build and guide a high-performing product organization, setting direction and operating mechanisms, developing talent, and fostering customer obsession, innovation, analytical rigor, accountability, and inclusive leadership. The role works across Engineering, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Advertising, Marketplace, Merchandising, and business teams, aligning Walmart U.S., International, Sam’s Club, and platform organizations around a cohesive vision. Success includes advancing AI-enabled shopping, improving customer discovery and confidence, delivering strong customer and business outcomes, accelerating learning through experimentation, and building a capable organization that executes its roadmap.

Requirements

• At least 15 years of product management experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area; alternatively, at least 17 years of product management or related experience.
• 12 or more years of product management experience, including substantial experience leading leaders and complex product portfolios at scale.
• Experience building consumer products in Search, Discovery, eCommerce, marketplaces, personalization, AI-powered experiences, or related domains.
• Ability to define and execute a multi-year product vision while delivering measurable near-term customer and business impact.
• Strong understanding of experimentation, product analytics, customer behavior, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ability to partner effectively with highly technical teams and translate emerging technology into compelling customer experiences.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, including driving alignment across complex organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and inspire high-performing product talent.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, set direction amid change, and make clear decisions with incomplete information.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related area, and 14 years of product manager experience; ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
• Supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and inclusive digital product design.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year vision and strategy for how customers discover, evaluate, and shop for products across Walmart.
• Set Walmart’s approach to AI-enabled shopping, including direct customer shopping, agent shopping, and the evolution of Walmart’s experiences in an agentic ecosystem.
• Identify experience, capability, and platform investments that support Walmart’s position in a changing shopping landscape.
• Translate strategy into a sequenced roadmap that balances long-term opportunities with immediate customer and business needs.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for search, AI-powered search, product discovery, inspiration, exploration, product comparison, personalized discovery, and emerging conversational, multimodal, and agent-enabled shopping experiences.
• Lead search and discovery quality, relevance, measurement, and customer-experience optimization.
• Establish a unified approach to customer intent, relevance, personalization, assortment exploration, and business outcomes.
• Build an experimentation roadmap and define customer, business, and long-term value measures for new experiences.
• Partner with Data Science and Analytics to establish evaluation frameworks, instrumentation, and decision-quality metrics.
• Build a culture of evidence-based learning, thoughtful tradeoffs, and rapid scaling of successful experiences.
• Ensure learning can be applied across platforms, markets, and customer segments while maintaining a high customer-experience bar.
• Lead and develop product leaders, establish direction, decision rights, and operating mechanisms, and build product, technical, and strategic capabilities across the team.
• Foster customer obsession, innovation, analytical rigor, accountability, and inclusive leadership; provide clarity and momentum through change.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Advertising, Marketplace, Merchandising, and business teams to deliver the strategy.
• Align Walmart U.S., International, Sam’s Club, and platform organizations around a cohesive Search and Discovery vision.
• Navigate tradeoffs among customer needs, business priorities, technical feasibility, and speed to market.
• Communicate strategy, progress, investment needs, and decisions to senior executives and stakeholders, building trust and alignment.
• Deliver a differentiated AI-enabled and agentic shopping strategy, improved discovery and decision-making, strong customer and business outcomes, key roadmap commitments, scalable platforms, and a high-performing organization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• Stock purchase.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, and PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Parental leave and family care leave.
• Bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
• Performance-based annual or quarterly bonuses.
• Stock may be included as additional compensation for certain positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director