Principal, Product Manager, Risk Decision Platform
About The Position
Walmart Marketplace is seeking a Principal Product Manager to define the vision, strategy, and architecture for a scalable Risk Decision Platform powering decisions across the seller and item lifecycle. The platform brings together machine learning models, risk signals, rules, policies, and workflows to make accurate, real-time risk decisions. This strategic individual-contributor role sits at the intersection of platform product, AI/ML, and risk, shaping capabilities for evaluating risk, orchestrating decisions and actions, and helping risk teams configure and optimize strategies as threats and business needs evolve. Marketplace Trust builds products, platforms, and intelligence to protect Walmart Marketplace. Its Risk Decision Platform supports seller onboarding, lifecycle risk, fraud, compliance, item integrity, and enforcement. Walmart is evolving the platform into a modern, configurable foundation for faster strategy deployment, experimentation, explainability, governance, and continuous optimization of risk decisions globally.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, including significant experience building and scaling Risk Decision Platforms.
- Deep expertise in decision engines, strategy and rules management, decision orchestration, and real-time risk decisioning.
- Experience integrating machine learning models, risk scores, rules, policies, and third-party signals into production decision flows.
- Strong understanding of strategy authoring, simulation, champion-challenger testing, experimentation, governance, and decision observability.
- Experience building self-service platforms used by risk, fraud, or compliance teams to manage decision strategies.
- Strong technical fluency across APIs, event-driven architecture, data platforms, and machine learning systems.
- Demonstrated ability to define platform strategy and influence senior technical and business leaders.
- Minimum qualification: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area and 9 years of product management experience; or 11 years of experience in product management or a related area.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related area and 8 years of experience as a product manager, ideally on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
- Supervisory experience.
- Background creating inclusive digital experiences, including knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year product vision and architecture for a scalable, enterprise Risk Decision Platform.
- Build decision orchestration capabilities that combine machine learning models, risk signals, rules, policies, and downstream actions.
- Design configurable strategy authoring so risk teams can build and modify complex decision logic.
- Build simulation, champion-challenger testing, experimentation, versioning, approvals, rollback, and auditability capabilities.
- Establish observability for decision accuracy, false positives, coverage, latency, strategy performance, and business impact.
- Advance AI-powered capabilities for strategy creation, optimization, and decision intelligence.
- Define platform standards and reusable capabilities across risk domains.
- Influence Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Compliance, and Operations leaders.
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 leave, 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 for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U education benefit for eligible full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for qualifying programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
