(USA) Principal Product Manager

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About the Team

As a part of the Walmart Global Tech – Marketplace team, you will play a key role in the development and expansion of our global marketplace platform.  You will work with a team of product managers and business-minded individuals to develop key capabilities needed to support the future growth of the Walmart portfolio.  Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you will play an important role in the company’s success, with a huge opportunity for personal and professional growth. You will join a high-performing team seeking others who will challenge us to become better. You will have the opportunity to have significant impact by solving problems at a scale available to only a few organizations in the world.

The ideal candidate for this role is a creative and strategic thinker, analytical, results-oriented and has excellent cross functional collaboration skills.  You’re a highly motivated self-starter with a strong understanding of building platform products, marketplaces, and a passion for understanding the competitive landscape.  You’re an excellent communicator, building strong cross-functional relationships including Strategy Team, User Experience, Project Managers, Business Product managers, Engineering, and Analytics teams.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with partner teams across multiple locations so communication, collaboration, and organization are key to your success
• Providing expertise on the market and competition and predicting market opportunities. Setting product objectives and key performance indicators
• Developing and enhancing a product family by developing and managing product roadmaps and gathering, developing, documenting requirements
• Crafting and developing solutions to business challenges by communicating requirements to key partners (i.e., business leaders, User Experience, Engineering, Analytics) and engaging with them to deliver and support initiatives. Communicating status and insights related to product performance and securing buy-in from executive-level leadership
• Communicating product roadmaps and priorities and collaborating across product areas for roadmap prioritization including, engaging with key partners to determine the best product and business strategies and gaining buy-in from executive-level leadership
• Driving execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs and developing and communicating business plans and priorities. Removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources and identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning
• Considering technical architecture and implementation; collecting and analyzing customer and product data; turning customer insights into actionable priorities and initiatives; defining user and business acceptance criteria and roll out strategy; managing risks and dependencies
• Seeking patents to protect innovative ideas and products and prioritizing product backlog
• Promoting and supporting company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by way of training and providing direction to others in their use and application and ensuring compliance and utilizing and supporting the Open-Door Policy
• Ensuring business needs are met by evaluating ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…
 

• You are passionate about hyper growth and like swimming upstream
• Great at stakeholder management, pitching ideas with data
• You are a storyteller who can break down complex technology to be easily understood
• You like digging into data and doing some analysis
• You’re excited about solving complex challenges
• You’re customer-centric in spirit and in execution
• You’re comfortable influencing others, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly
• You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your team’s products

You’ll make an impact by
 

• Being an expert in marketplace, seller personas, and international markets
• Having the ability to work against tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment keeping a keen eye on detail and accuracy
• Using your platform experience to hit the ground running
• Keeping a positive, open-minded attitude, able to thrive working with cross-functional teams, with a willingness to learn
• Having exceptional communication skills
• Bringing in strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a results-oriented mindset
• Demonstrating strong project management and time management skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (advanced technical degree preferred)
• Min of 5+ years of relevant work in technical product management, owning and driving end-to-end product requirements across multiple technology teams.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 4 years’ experience in product management or related field OR 6 years’ experience in product management or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Consulting and advising business partners utilizing detailed analysis, Gathering, identifying, and recommending solution requirements, Product or solution development, Proven track record of successful product creation with measurable and significant business impactMasters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location...

640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America