(USA) Staff, Product Manager - Search Ranking
About The Position
As a Staff Product Manager, you will lead strategy and execution for complex products, driving end-to-end outcomes from discovery through value realization. This role requires deep customer and technical insight, strong stakeholder collaboration, and ownership of multi-quarter product vision and roadmaps. You will influence product direction, mentor peers, and leverage data-driven decision-making to optimize performance. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams, you will ensure alignment with business goals while advancing innovation and operational excellence within the product area. This position demands a strategic mindset and authoritative leadership without direct people management responsibilities. About the team: The team leads strategy and execution for complex products, driving end-to-end outcomes from discovery through value realization. It combines deep customer and technical insights with mature product leadership to define vision, roadmap, and go-to-market plans. Collaborating closely with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business partners, the team manages product lifecycle, prioritizes initiatives using data-driven insights, and explores emerging technologies. Members influence cross-functional stakeholders, mentor peers, and continuously seek improvements to deliver impactful solutions that align with broader business goals while maintaining high standards of integrity and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Proven experience driving product strategy and managing roadmaps for complex or multiple related products.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Expertise in data-driven decision making, including advanced analytics and experimentation to validate product assumptions.
- Deep understanding of product lifecycle management from discovery through value realization.
- Ability to translate customer and market insights into prioritized, measurable problem statements and product direction.
- Familiarity with emerging technologies and their application within product development.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to build trust and align business outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in product management.
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute multi-quarter product vision and strategy for complex or related products, aligning with business goals.
- Lead end-to-end product lifecycle management, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver value from discovery through launch and scaling.
- Build deep customer and market insights using data analysis, design thinking, and feedback mechanisms to prioritize product initiatives.
- Drive data-driven decision making through experimentation, analytics, and AI opportunity assessment to optimize product outcomes.
- Influence technical direction by collaborating with Engineering on architecture, feasibility, and innovation without direct authority.
- Mentor product managers on roadmap development, launch readiness, and customer-centric practices.
- Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment and successful product adoption.
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 leave
- 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 (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
