Principal, Product Manager, Risk Decision Platform

Walmart•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

Walmart Marketplace is seeking a Principal Product Manager to define the vision and strategy for a Risk Decision Platform that powers risk decisions across the seller and item lifecycle. The platform brings together machine learning models, risk signals, rules, policies, and workflows to support accurate, real-time decisions. This strategic individual-contributor role operates at the intersection of platform product management, AI/ML, and risk, shaping capabilities to evaluate risk, orchestrate decisions and actions, and help risk teams configure and optimize strategies as threats and business needs evolve. Marketplace Trust builds products, platforms, and intelligence to protect the integrity of Walmart Marketplace. Its Risk Decision Platform provides a foundational decisioning layer for seller onboarding, lifecycle risk, fraud, compliance, item integrity, and enforcement. The team is evolving the platform to support faster strategy deployment, experimentation, explainability, governance, and continuous optimization of risk decisions globally. The role defines multi-year platform vision and architecture; builds decision orchestration and configurable strategy-authoring capabilities; establishes simulation, experimentation, governance, and observability features; advances AI-powered strategy capabilities; sets reusable platform standards across risk domains; and influences leaders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Compliance, and Operations. The position is based at 1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, California. Walmart describes its compensation as including an annual salary, performance-based bonuses, and potentially stock for certain positions. The stated annual salary range is $143,000 to $286,000.

Requirements

At least 10 years of product management experience, including significant experience building and scaling Risk Decision Platforms, as stated in the role description.
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; alternatively, 11 years of product management or related experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related area and 8 years of product-manager experience; ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
Supervisory experience.
Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices.

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 capabilities so risk teams can create 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

Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k).
Stock purchase plan.
Company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave.
Parental leave.
Family care leave.
Bereavement leave.
Jury duty leave.
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: Walmart-paid education programs, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible associates.
Performance-based annual or quarterly bonuses.
Stock compensation may be available for certain positions.