(USA) Principal, Product Manager
About The Position
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Wally, Walmart's AI-powered merchandising assistant, helping redefine how merchants make decisions and get work done. This role calls for an AI-native product leader who can translate emerging AI capabilities into meaningful business impact at enterprise scale. The Principal, Product Manager partners closely with engineering, data science, and business leaders to build trusted, high-impact AI experiences for merchants. The team develops an AI-native merchandising platform and shared services that help the merchandising organization govern and scale applications efficiently. It uses advanced technologies and data-driven insights to strengthen product strategy and roadmap management, while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions, innovation, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Deep experience building AI-native products, with strong fluency in modern AI technologies and an understanding of useful, reliable, and trusted AI experiences.
- Proven ability to define product vision and strategy, navigate ambiguity, and deliver impactful products from concept to scale.
- Strong technical aptitude and experience partnering with engineering teams to shape product direction, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence system design.
- Expertise using data, experimentation, user research, and evaluation frameworks to measure product quality and drive decisions.
- Exceptional leadership and influence skills, including experience aligning cross-functional teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and mentoring product managers.
- Either a 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
- A 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.
- Experience creating inclusive digital experiences, including knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, accessibility best practices, and integrating accessibility into products and services.
Responsibilities
- Shape and drive product strategy across multiple related products, leveraging domain expertise and data-driven insights.
- Own complex customer problems and product requirements, considering upstream and downstream impacts.
- Develop and manage product roadmaps to ensure strategic alignment, technical feasibility, and resource prioritization.
- Establish scalable mechanisms for gathering and interpreting customer feedback and product usage data.
- Guide teams in defining success metrics aligned to customer outcomes and validate them across product and user dimensions.
- Influence enterprise prioritization through customer insights and opportunity-sizing models.
- Mentor product managers and elevate product management practices across the organization.
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.
- Live Better U education benefit, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.
- Performance-based bonus awards.
- Stock compensation may be offered for certain positions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
