Senior Director, Product Management - Merchandising Data Enablement

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

97d • $160,000 - $320,000

About The Position

Our Merchandising Transformation team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Director of Merchandising Data Enablement to steward all merchandising data needs and drive the future of data-driven retail. This role will set the vision for how merchandising uses data, design the data architecture, build data products, and ensure that merchandising teams and technology partners have the data assets they need to make customer-first decisions and deliver business impact.

Requirements

• A balance of strategic vision with the ability to dive deep into technical and business challenges.
• Proven experience leading large-scale data strategy, architecture, and product initiatives in retail or a similarly complex industry.
• Deep understanding of merchandising processes, and how data can accelerate decisions in assortment, pricing, planning, and supply chain.
• Strong knowledge of data platforms, cloud ecosystems, and modern data engineering practices.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated servant leadership, with a focus on developing teams, embracing change, and driving innovation at scale.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area.
• 12 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.

Responsibilities

• Act as the central owner and advocate for all data required by the merchandising organization, ensuring accessibility, quality, and alignment with business priorities.
• Lead the creation of data products, tools, and capabilities that unlock insights, accelerate decision-making, and enable associates to serve customers better.
• Ensure that merchants, planners, and operators have the right data assets, delivered in the right way, to power decisions across assortment, pricing, supply chain, and eCommerce.
• Champion data governance, data quality, and emerging technologies to simplify workflows and make it simpler to agentically source the data merchandising needs.
• Partner with technology, data engineering, and product teams to design and maintain the merchandising data ecosystem, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and future-ready.
• Build and leverage strong relationships across tech, product, engineering, and merchandising to align strategies, break down silos, and deliver business outcomes.

Benefits

• Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards.
• Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Company discounts.
• Military Leave Pay.
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree