Group Director, Product Management - Search & Discovery Experiences

Walmart•Sunnyvale, CA

8d•$254,000 - $481,000•Onsite

About The Position

Walmart is seeking an experienced, visionary Group Director of Product Management to lead Search and Discovery Experiences across its digital ecosystem. The role will define the future of how customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products, including AI-powered experiences and agentic commerce, while setting a multi-year strategy and delivering near-term customer and business impact. The position owns the strategy and roadmap for search, product discovery and exploration, product comparison and decision support, personalized discovery, conversational and multimodal shopping, and agent-enabled experiences. It also establishes a unified approach to customer intent, relevance, personalization, assortment exploration, quality, measurement, and business outcomes. As a leader of leaders, this person will develop product organizations across Search, Discovery, AI-enabled and agentic shopping, and experimentation and optimization. The role partners with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Advertising, Marketplace, Merchandising, and business leaders, aligning Walmart U.S., International, Sam’s Club, and platform organizations around a cohesive vision. It requires balancing long-term strategy with execution, navigating complex tradeoffs, communicating with senior executives, and building an inclusive, customer-focused organization that learns and adapts through rigorous experimentation. The position is based at 809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, California. Walmart offers competitive pay, performance-based bonuses, and a range of benefits. The annual salary range is $254,000–$481,000, with additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses and potentially stock.

Requirements

Option 1 minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area and 15 years of product management experience.
Option 2 minimum qualification: 17 years of experience in product management or a related area.
Substantial experience leading leaders and complex product portfolios at scale.
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 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.
Ability to attract, develop, and inspire high-performing product talent.
Comfort operating amid ambiguity, setting direction through change, and making decisions with incomplete information.

Nice To Haves

Experience building consumer products in Search, Discovery, eCommerce, marketplaces, personalization, AI-powered experiences, or related domains.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related area and 14 years of product manager experience, ideally with consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
Supervisory experience.
Knowledge of creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility practices.

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-led shopping, and experiences for an increasingly agentic ecosystem.
Identify the experiences, capabilities, and platform investments needed to lead in a changing shopping landscape.
Develop a sequenced, actionable roadmap that balances long-term bets with immediate customer and business opportunities.
Own the strategy and roadmap for Search, AI-powered search, product discovery, inspiration, exploration, product comparison, personalized discovery, conversational and multimodal shopping, and agent-enabled shopping.
Establish a unified approach to discovery spanning customer intent, relevance, personalization, assortment exploration, quality, measurement, 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 create evaluation frameworks, instrumentation, and decision-quality metrics.
Foster evidence-based learning, thoughtful tradeoffs, and rapid scaling of successful experiences across platforms, markets, and customer segments.
Lead and develop product leaders across multiple levels, clarify direction and decision rights, and establish effective operating mechanisms.
Build product, technical, and strategic capabilities while fostering customer obsession, innovation, analytical rigor, accountability, and inclusive leadership.
Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Analytics, Advertising, Marketplace, Merchandising, and other 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.
Deliver improved customer discovery and decision-making, strong customer and business outcomes, scalable platforms, roadmap commitments, and a high-performing organization.

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k).
Stock purchase plan.
Company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave.
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.
Walmart-paid Live Better U education program for eligible full-time and part-time associates, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs.
Performance-based annual or quarterly bonuses.
Stock may be included as additional compensation for certain positions.