(USA) Senior Director I, Product Management (Tech)

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Senior Director, Product Management – Global Platform – Data Platforms  

Our Company

If you're thinking 'scale', think bigger, and don't stop there. At Walmart Global Technology, we don't just innovate; we enable transformations across stores and online channels for the Walmart experience. We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week more than 260+ million customers and members visit our 11,600+ stores under 69 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With last fiscal year revenues of approximately $524 billion and 2.3 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the world’s largest retail business. Our teams collaborate across the globe to build and deploy solutions that enhance our customer experience, improve the lives of our associates, and create value for our business. 

Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a seamless and straightforward experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics enable us to serve our customers better and create a digital relationship. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We're changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from the physical stores to mobile, social, and even online; we're not just ready for the future of shopping, we're creating it.

Walmart's Global Platform Product Organization:  

The Walmart Global Platform Product team manages the Platform portfolio capabilities to support Walmart's applications and infrastructure needs. The organization owns the platform products (Databases, Streaming, Big Data, Machine Learning, Metadata Tools, Common Application Components, CI/CD, Infrastructure, Edge, Networking, Public/Private Cloud, and Private Data Centers), vision, strategy, roadmap, and life cycle processes delivering scalable solutions to Walmart.

Key responsibilities of this team:

• Translating applications team needs into product roadmap from platform organization

• Building and unifying the Platform portfolio and looking at the Platform as a product 

• Improve the overall product excellence, developer, and application teams’ experience in product adoption and usage.

• Continuously innovate product capabilities based on the evolving application needs keeping scalability, availability, and high performance in mind. 

• Measure and improve the critical business metrics to enhance ROI, the choice of build vs. buy, and adopting cutting technology products from the market.

Role:

Walmart is looking for a passionate product leader with in-depth engineering and product experience to work across multiple organizations and platform teams to innovate, build, and accelerate product adoption. Some of the key roles are:

• Build, coach, and drive a high-performance Data product team that fosters an environment of focusing on building Data products for developers and applications teams that prioritizes features to maximize business value.​ 

• Think, design, and build high return on investment through continuous improvement of product features with a clear roadmap and drive the engineering and architecture priorities.​ 

• Provide a transparent and accurate total cost and utilization for each global product to manage consumption, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency.​

• Improve product adoption by creating a seamless Data ecosystem.​ 

• Build, develop, and guide high-performing talent for the Product organization.

• Engage with leaders worldwide to build strategy and define priorities for the team to deliver the best services.

• Create a collaborative environment across geographies that deliver the best services to customers around the globe.

• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

• Provide supervision, mentoring, and development opportunities for associates, engineering managers, and technologists. 

Your Opportunity

The Platform Product organization has the vision to provide a transformative, scalable, secure, and efficient Platform as a Product that brings business value to our customers. The organization offers a huge opportunity to streamline, innovate, and build the right Data products for a multi-cloud ecosystem. You will lead the Product Data Platforms team to drive the product innovations, adoption, and solutions to the applications team and developers across the globe. The products’ portfolio involves developing products for Hybrid Multi-Cloud. The team will look through the spectrum of products and drive consistency and standardization, which are cost-effective and provide business value to Walmart.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide Data Product Evangelism and Technology leadership and vision.

• Employ the best product management methodologies with a deep understanding of customers' requirements, customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow adoption, improve customer experience, and drive business growth.

• Provide high-level strategy and framework to apply across the products’ portfolio to evaluate, build, and manage the Products.

• Collaborate with platform engineering teams, drive product roadmap, and deliver quick time-to-market by prioritizing the activities and product requirements. 

• Act as the brand ambassador of all the Data Platform portfolio products and drive adoption by providing solutions leveraging platform products across all Walmart segments.

• Build a strong relationship with Walmart's different business segments, provide consulting and adoption services throughout the application development life cycle.

• Provide the right architectural advice best practices in product adoption, help accelerate application development.

• Collaborate with the enterprise architecture team to build patterns and blueprints, which can be reused and deployed across different business segments.

• Evaluate overall performance by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data and metrics.

• Focus on generating intellectual property assets on operational support models, tools, and techniques implemented.

Your qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• 15+ years of experience in engineering, support, and cutting edge product development space with excellent technology, consulting, and product knowledge

• Strong hands-on knowledge in technology & product leadership of conceptualizing, incubating, and building multi-cloud products in the tier 0/1 products like Databases, Streaming, Hadoop, Spark, Large Scale Databases, Big Data, Machine Learning, Metadata Tools, and Telemetry Systems in the Private/Public cloud and edge environments.

• Strong technical background with the capability of having a product design conversation with the engineering team and providing strategic thought leadership in shaping the product roadmap

• Ability to connect with customers, build empathy by being “in their shoes” to understand their needs and translate them into product requirements with a clear articulation of benefits.

• Experience in building large-scale high available, resilient platform products leveraging private and public data centers in cloud-native patterns that represent broad strategic initiatives

• Sound understanding of architecturally significant requirements and practices in the implementation of high availability, resilient, high performance, and scalable solutions

• Experience in hiring, coaching, and managing a team of high potential platform product managers

• Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate and drive the tough conversations in influencing the product adoption

• Experience working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment in managing technology-intensive, time-sensitive, geographically dispersed product support organizations across multiple locations and multiple domains.

• A proven ability to manage ambiguity and preparedness to get things done

Our Ideal candidate

Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. They thrive in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, start-up-like environment.

• Should have deep interest and passion for technology
• Should be enthusiastic and excited about cloud computing and its impact on solving business problems at scale
• Should have strong problem solving, analytical, decision-making, communication, and interpersonal skills and should be a team player
• Should have strong people and relationship skills to build long-lasting relationships with Walmart business and technology teams

Benefits & Perks:  

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.  

Equal Opportunity Employer**:**

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.   

Who We Are: 

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com 

About Global Tech:  

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption. 

We’re virtual  

Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.  Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual.

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, Engineering, Project Management, Information Technology, or related field and 6 years’ experience in project
management, product management, information systems, operations management, or related area OR 8 years’ experience in project management, product management, information systems, operations management, or related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Leading a cross-functional teamMasters: Business Administration

Primary Location...

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