(USA) Principal, Data Analyst
About The Position
Walmart’s Search experience is a critical entry point for customers, shaping product discovery, purchase decisions, and overall shopping satisfaction. We are seeking a Principal Analyst, Search Product to partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Business teams across the end-to-end search stack—including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, post-retrieval optimization, and UI/UX. This role will define search success metrics, evaluate product and model innovations, uncover high-impact opportunities, and influence roadmap decisions through rigorous analytics and experimentation. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and translates complex data into strategic product direction. The Product Analytics team partners with Product, Engineering, Design, and Data Science to enable data-driven decisions throughout the eCommerce journey and Store Operations. This team delivers insights that guide product launches, optimization, and scaling to improve customer experiences and business results. Responsibilities include leading business reviews, exploratory analyses, opportunity sizing, and experiment evaluation. Positioned centrally in product decision-making, the team blends analytical expertise with business knowledge to influence initiatives from ideation to launch, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure measurable impact and ongoing product performance monitoring.
Requirements
- Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience working with large-scale behavioral, transactional, or event-level datasets.
- Deep experience with experimentation, including metric selection, test design, statistical interpretation, guardrails, segmentation, and launch recommendations.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to connect customer behavior with business impact.
- Experience conducting ambiguous, high-impact analyses where the answer is not obvious and the problem needs to be structured from first principles.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear analytical narratives, dashboards and metric readouts.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
- Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
- 6 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
Nice To Haves
- Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field, Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
- Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce)
- Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)
Responsibilities
- Lead analytics across the end-to-end Search product experience, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and UI/UX.
- Define and evolve search health metrics to measure customer experience, relevance, and business impact.
- Conduct deep-dive analyses and opportunity sizing to identify high-impact product improvements and influence roadmap priorities.
- Design, execute, and interpret rigorous experiments (A/B, multivariate, Bayesian, and quasi-experimental) to evaluate product changes and guide launch decisions.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design to optimize search performance and customer outcomes.
- Build scalable analytical frameworks and communicate data-driven recommendations that shape product strategy and raise analytical excellence.
Benefits
- 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 leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Live Better U education benefit program (for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
