Senior Manager, Product Management, Risk Decisioning Platform

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

2d • $143,000 - $286,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Walmart Marketplace is seeking a Senior Manager, Product Management to lead the strategy and development of a next-generation Risk and Compliance Decision Platform. The platform will bring together machine learning models, risk signals, business rules, policies, and third-party data to enable consistent, explainable, and scalable risk decisions across the Marketplace. It will support strategy configuration and management, evaluation of changes before deployment, automated actions, and ongoing measurement of decision effectiveness.

This cross-functional leadership role works across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Compliance, and Operations. The role leads a team of product managers and builds reusable foundational capabilities supporting seller onboarding, lifecycle risk, compliance, fraud, and enforcement. The position is based at the listed Walmart location in Sunnyvale, California.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of product management experience and a strong track record building and scaling complex risk and fraud platforms.
• At least 3 years as a people leader, with experience building, leading, and developing high-performing product teams.
• Direct experience building a risk decisioning platform, decision engine, fraud platform, credit decisioning platform, or comparable automated decision system.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Deep understanding of how ML models, risk signals, rules, policies, and data are orchestrated into automated decisions and actions.
• Strong technical fluency across APIs, real-time and batch systems, data platforms, event-driven architectures, and ML infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, ambiguous initiatives across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
• Experience in large-scale marketplaces or eCommerce organizations.
• Minimum qualification option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related area and 9 years of product management experience.
• Minimum qualification option 2: 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; experience creating inclusive digital experiences is valued.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy and roadmap for a Risk Decision Platform supporting seller onboarding, lifecycle risk, compliance, and enforcement.
• Lead, develop, and manage a team of product managers responsible for the risk decisioning ecosystem.
• Build a common decisioning platform that combines ML models, risk scores, behavioral signals, third-party data, and business rules to determine appropriate actions.
• Enable Risk and Compliance teams to configure decision strategies, thresholds, and actions without requiring engineering changes for every policy update.
• Develop end-to-end decision orchestration, from ingesting risk signals through evaluating decision logic and executing actions.
• Build closed-loop measurement connecting decisions to downstream outcomes, including measurement of false positives, false negatives, and overall decision effectiveness.
• Establish enterprise-grade governance, including strategy versioning, approvals, change history, rollback, explainability, and auditability.
• Create reusable platform capabilities and APIs so new risk signals and models can be integrated and adopted across multiple use cases.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to define platform architecture and operationalize ML and AI capabilities at scale.

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, and 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 may be additional compensation for certain positions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior