Staff, Product Manager - Data Product Management, Sam's Club

Wal-Mart•Bentonville, AR

52d•$110,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Position Summary... What you'll do... What You'll Do… Own the roadmap for a key data platform or product (e.g., data catalog, data marketplace, ML data pipelines, or self-service data API layer), ensuring scalability, reliability, and adoption across the enterprise. Define product strategy and success metrics that align with Sam's Club's data and AI initiatives - balancing platform robustness, usability, and innovation velocity. Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineering, data science, and analytics teams to design capabilities that accelerate time-to-insight and unlock automation. Translate business and analytical needs into data product requirements - ensuring that stakeholders can access trusted, high-quality, and well-governed data. Partner with platform engineering to shape system architecture, data flows, and infrastructure investments supporting large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and consumption. Promote adoption by creating frameworks, documentation, and education that help teams integrate seamlessly with the data platform. Champion data governance, privacy, and compliance, embedding these principles into product design and decision-making. Measure impact through data quality, usage, and business outcomes, continuously iterating to improve product performance and adoption. You'll Make an Impact By… Delivering a scalable and intuitive data platform that enables teams to build analytics, AI models, and products faster and more reliably. Simplifying how data is discovered, accessed, and used across Sam's Club - empowering teams to make data-driven decisions confidently. Elevating the member and associate experience through data-powered insights and automation. Creating the foundation for AI/ML innovation, ensuring that high-quality, well-structured data fuels predictive and personalized experiences. The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet! The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location).

Requirements

You bring 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years focused on data products/platform, or AI/ML products.
You have deep technical fluency in modern data ecosystems - including cloud-native data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), data pipelines (Airflow, Spark), and API/data mesh architectures.
You have a track record of building and scaling data platforms that deliver measurable value to internal or external users.
You excel at bridging the gap between engineering complexity and business context - telling compelling stories with data.
You're highly collaborative and comfortable influencing without authority across engineering, analytics, and business domains.
You're driven by craftsmanship in product design - building reliable, intuitive systems that others love to use.
You're passionate about data as a product, and thrive at the intersection of platform thinking, data architecture, and AI enablement.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 7 years' experience in product management.
Option 2: 9 years' experience in product management or related area.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 6 years' experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, We value candidates with a 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. The ideal candidate would have 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.

Responsibilities

Own the roadmap for a key data platform or product (e.g., data catalog, data marketplace, ML data pipelines, or self-service data API layer), ensuring scalability, reliability, and adoption across the enterprise.
Define product strategy and success metrics that align with Sam's Club's data and AI initiatives - balancing platform robustness, usability, and innovation velocity.
Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineering, data science, and analytics teams to design capabilities that accelerate time-to-insight and unlock automation.
Translate business and analytical needs into data product requirements - ensuring that stakeholders can access trusted, high-quality, and well-governed data.
Partner with platform engineering to shape system architecture, data flows, and infrastructure investments supporting large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
Promote adoption by creating frameworks, documentation, and education that help teams integrate seamlessly with the data platform.
Champion data governance, privacy, and compliance, embedding these principles into product design and decision-making.
Measure impact through data quality, usage, and business outcomes, continuously iterating to improve product performance and adoption.
Delivering a scalable and intuitive data platform that enables teams to build analytics, AI models, and products faster and more reliably.
Simplifying how data is discovered, accessed, and used across Sam's Club - empowering teams to make data-driven decisions confidently.
Elevating the member and associate experience through data-powered insights and automation.
Creating the foundation for AI/ML innovation, ensuring that high-quality, well-structured data fuels predictive and personalized experiences.

Benefits

Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
Live Better U is a company 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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