Staff Product Manager

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

13h•$110,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Product Manager will explore new focus areas for value creation, develop long-term visions, and articulate problem statements and hypotheses. This role involves guiding team members towards prototypes, effectively communicating product strategy, vision, and unit economics. The position requires understanding "Go-to-Market" strategies and levers for user adoption. Key areas of focus include Product Vision and Strategy, Data Driven Product Decisions, In-Depth Domain Knowledge, Technology Orientation, Product Roadmap and Development, Driving Customer/ Client Needs, and managing software product strategy and solutions for identified business problems within the Supply Chain, Inventory, and Retail domains. The role involves conducting case studies, developing technology product roadmaps, gathering business requirements, analyzing customer and systems interactions, prioritizing backlogs, providing user experience feedback, performing user acceptance testing, and communicating product development status.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field plus 7 years of experience in product management or a related field; OR Master’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in product management or a related field.
Experience managing software product strategy and solutions for identified business problems, including Warehouse Management, Inventory and Retail domain Systems for end-to-end Supply Chain.
Experience conducting case studies, assessments and defining objectives/ key performance indicators for technology product solutions.
Experience developing and enhancing software products by managing technology product roadmaps aligned to short- and long-term strategy, including software product builds for the retail business domain on Forward and Reverse logistics supporting Fulfillment and Returns network operations.
Experience gathering and documenting business requirements through user interviews, workshops, joint application development sessions other elicitation methods.
Experience analyzing customer and systems interaction to define end-to-end data flows through the technology product, for data mapping needs, data analytics and translate appropriately for visualization.
Experience prioritizing business requirements and technology product backlogs for systems development.
Experience providing user experience feedback and screen flow guidelines to develop user interfaces for technology products and applications.
Experience performing user acceptance testing and managing rollout of prioritized features for software products – new application builds as well as system enhancements.
Experience communicating software product development status updates and rollout plans to stakeholders.
Experience measuring software product results against key performance indicators to define requirements for improvements and upgrades.
Requirements Management Tools: JIRA; Confluence; Leankit
Visualization/ Flow diagram Tools: Visio, Figma, Proto.io
Databases and Tools: Informix DB; Oracle DB; DBeaver; Postman
Software: Java; XML; .NET, Angular JS, Mobile Apps; Mainframes systems.

Responsibilities

Explores new focus areas/uncharted areas for value creation leveraging first principles and develops a long-term vision.
Articulates problem statements and hypotheses.
Guides team members towards prototypes.
Effectively communicates product strategy and vision and the unit economics of a product.
Understands the need for "Go-to-Market" strategies and levers for user adoption.
Monitors, collects, and structures data and evaluates results.
Supports the identification and application of tools and techniques.
Assists in the planning, design, and implementation of exploratory data analysis.
Independently (or with minimal guidance) conducts activities for product/feature analytics with an understanding of simple trends/insights.
Compares the maturity of products, services, and processes across subdomains with others in the industry.
Recommends new processes, automation opportunities, and ways of working for subdomains.
Explores alternative avenues to identify resources while navigating through organizational constraints and dependencies.
Guides product/feature rollouts and scaling (using an MVP approach) and iteratively optimizes the product.
Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations.
Delivers customer value within the parameters of profitability and other targets.
Builds and maintains consistent customer connections and solicits customer feedback.
Creates customer journeys and identifies customer touchpoints.
Addresses gaps/risks in product experiences.
Simplifies and improves processes to drive customer satisfaction.
Manages software product strategy and solutions for identified business problems, including Warehouse Management, Inventory and Retail domain Systems for end-to-end Supply Chain.
Conducts case studies, assessments and defines objectives/key performance indicators for technology product solutions.
Develops and enhances software products by managing technology product roadmaps aligned to short- and long-term strategy, including software product builds for the retail business domain on Forward and Reverse logistics supporting Fulfillment and Returns network operations.
Gathers and documents business requirements through user interviews, workshops, joint application development sessions, and other elicitation methods.
Analyzes customer and systems interaction to define end-to-end data flows through the technology product, for data mapping needs, data analytics and translates appropriately for visualization.
Prioritizes business requirements and technology product backlogs for systems development.
Provides user experience feedback and screen flow guidelines to develop user interfaces for technology products and applications.
Performs user acceptance testing and manages rollout of prioritized features for software products – new application builds as well as system enhancements.
Communicates software product development status updates and rollout plans to stakeholders.
Measures software product results against key performance indicators to define requirements for improvements and upgrades.