(USA) Distinguished, Product Manager
About The Position
As a Distinguished Product Manager at Walmart, this senior individual contributor role leads enterprise-wide product strategy and shapes organizational capabilities to enhance competitive positioning. The role involves managing multiple complex product lines by integrating market trends, customer insights, and business strategies. It drives the creation of strategic frameworks and go-to-market approaches that foster mass adoption and enterprise value. This position requires influencing senior stakeholders, guiding product lifecycle governance, and advancing technology adoption to deliver innovative, data-driven solutions aligned with Walmart’s long-term vision and business objectives. Walmart’s Global Tech Platform – Data Services team supports thousands of developers by simplifying software development across digital and physical business areas. The team manages millions of transactions per second and processes vast data volumes to enable efficient operations. As part of this team, the Distinguished Product Manager will lead efforts to design and develop cloud-native data platforms that support ingestion, processing, and AI/ML workloads. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the role focuses on aligning platform capabilities with business needs, driving strategic planning, and roadmap planning and execution to enhance Walmart’s technology foundation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in engineering, support, and product development, with strong technical and consulting expertise.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Expertise in managing messaging, streaming and/or data security products
- Experience engaging senior leaders to define strategy and set priorities for world-class services.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to influence product design and provide strategic direction.
- Customer-focused mindset with a talent for translating needs into impactful product solutions.
- Experience building resilient, scalable platforms using cloud-native architectures.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of delivering results in fast-paced, distributed environments.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years’ experience in product management.
- Option 2: 13 years’ experience in product management or related area.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products
- Supervisory experience
- Background in 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
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform solutions that empower developers and application teams globally.
- Translate user needs into a strategic product roadmap, prioritizing features that drive measurable business value.
- Enhance developer experience and streamline adoption through continuous product innovation and operational excellence.
- Evolve platform capabilities to meet changing demands, with a focus on scalability, availability, and performance.
- Define and track key metrics to guide investment decisions and maximize ROI.
- Apply modern product management practices to identify customer needs, close product gaps, and accelerate adoption.
- Collaborate closely with engineering to execute the roadmap and reduce time-to-market.
- Use data-driven insights to evaluate platform performance and inform ongoing improvements.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- 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 and 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
Senior
