(USA) Principal, Product Manager - Planning and Forecasting

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

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About The Position

The Principal, Product Manager leads strategy and execution for Walmart’s global financial planning and forecasting products. The role owns complex customer problems, maintains a business-critical finance platform, and shapes its long-term vision and evolution. Working across business, engineering, data, and UX, the product manager turns customer needs and product insights into scalable, AI-enabled capabilities that improve planning, forecasting, and decision-making. Success requires strong product judgment, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to deliver measurable value through complex transformation.

The Enterprise Planning and Forecasting Product team develops AI-driven financial forecasting and planning solutions for Walmart’s FP&A operations. By integrating operational and financial planning systems with advanced AI, the team creates a connected ecosystem that supports data-driven decisions. In collaboration with business, engineering, and data science partners, the team delivers scalable products that automate financial processes and improve planning accuracy. It leads product strategy, roadmap execution, and cross-functional alignment to deliver measurable business value and seamless enterprise user experiences.

Requirements

• Experience owning complex, enterprise-scale products from discovery through launch, adoption, and long-term evolution.
• Strong product strategy, customer discovery, requirements, roadmapping, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong leadership skills, including experience guiding cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate customer needs through design thinking, journey mapping, and process analysis into clear product direction.
• Proficiency in data-driven decision-making, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies, including AI, to inform product direction and innovation.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area and 9 years of experience in product management; or 11 years of experience in product management or a related area.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading complex product modernization, migration, or transformation efforts while sustaining a business-critical product.
• Experience in planning, forecasting, finance, retail, or a comparable decision-support domain.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related area and 8 years of experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
• Supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of inclusive digital experiences, WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and Walmart accessibility standards and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and measurable outcomes for global planning and forecasting products.
• Maintain and enhance the current finance product, partnering with business and engineering to resolve issues and protect critical operations.
• Lead product evolution by defining the phased approach, requirements, and delivery plan.
• Use customer insight, product data, and experimentation to deliver scalable solutions that improve daily finance and planning work.
• Partner with engineering, data, UX, and domain experts to deliver reliable, AI-enabled capabilities.
• Influence senior stakeholders, mentor product managers, and strengthen product-management practices.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• PTO and/or PPTO usable for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.
• Stock may be additional compensation for certain positions.

What This Job Offers

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