(USA) Principal, Product Manager
About The Position
Role summary: As a Principal Product Manager, you will lead product strategy across multiple related products, driving organization-wide decisions through deep expertise and data-driven insights. This role requires shaping complex customer solutions, defining long-term product vision, and managing comprehensive roadmaps to ensure strategic alignment and successful execution. You will influence senior stakeholders, promote best practices, and foster innovation while guiding cross-functional teams. Your leadership will advance product management discipline and deliver measurable business impact by leveraging analytics, customer insights, and emerging technologies to optimize product value and growth. About the team: The Walmart Inventory Planning Capabilities Product Management team develops advanced planning and forecasting solutions using machine learning and statistical modeling. This team oversees the inventory planning ecosystem across omni-channel networks, focusing on forecasting, inventory placement, targets, and item lifecycle management. By optimizing inventory positioning and safety stock, the team enhances operational efficiency. Members demonstrate strong ownership, data-driven decision making, and collaborate closely with engineering and business partners. They lead product strategy, execution, and continuous improvement to support Walmart’s merchandising operations and drive impactful results.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in product strategy and roadmap development across multiple related products.
- Proven ability to manage complex product lifecycles with strategic alignment and resource prioritization.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Expertise in data-driven decision making, leveraging analytics and experimentation to optimize product outcomes.
- Deep understanding of customer needs through design thinking, journey mapping, and feedback mechanisms.
- Demonstrated leadership in elevating product management practices and mentoring peers.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive scalable, innovative product solutions with measurable impact.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 9 years’ experience in product management.
- 11 years’ experience in product management or related area.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 8 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products
- Supervisory experience
- Creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating 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 join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
- Masters: Business Administration
- Masters: Computer Engineering
- Masters: Computer Science
Responsibilities
- Shape and drive product strategy across multiple related products, leveraging deep domain expertise and data-driven insights.
- Define and manage comprehensive product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration to address complex customer problems and prioritize product requirements.
- Establish scalable mechanisms for gathering customer feedback and transforming insights into actionable problem statements.
- Guide product lifecycle management, including MVP development, launch execution, and long-term optimization.
- Influence enterprise prioritization through strategic narratives and opportunity-sizing models.
- Mentor product managers and promote best practices to elevate product management discipline.
Benefits
- 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
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption expense reimbursement
- Surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
