Position Summary...
What you'll do...
As a Product Manager at Walmart, you will play a crucial role in bringing our digital products to life. You will be responsible for developing a product vision, strategy, and roadmap that aligns with corporate goals and objectives. Your role will involve leveraging research and data to ensure the product provides value to the business, understanding customer needs, and solving any problems that arise.
What you'll do...
Make Data Driven Product Decisions: Requires knowledge of product and feature analytics, data analysis tools and techniques, research for analysis activities, documentation procedures (for example, data logs), and modern industry practices and emerging trends.
Supports data analytics for a product/feature.
Supports data collection and evaluation within assigned areas (for example, acquisition cost, conversion rate, adoption, active users, feature usage, user churn, net promoter score, satisfaction, lifetime value).
Drive Customer/Client Needs: Requires knowledge of customer and business problems, design thinking, dependencies and impacts on product processes/ways of working, journey mapping, process optimization, and communication and influencing techniques.
-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 [6].
Maintain Product Roadmap and Development: Requires knowledge of product roadmap development techniques, roadmap presentation, roadmap features and items, project management techniques, modern business practice (for example, Agile methodologies, Scrum), Minimum Viable Product (MVP) creation, product development lifecycles, and product development concepts (for example, "Crossing the Chasm").
-Builds and owns a simple product roadmap with proper phasing.
-Communicates with cross-functional partners and stakeholders.
-Explores alternative avenues to identify resources while navigating through organizational constraints and dependencies.
-Builds stakeholder alignment.
-Manages backlog/priority tradeoff decisions and communications.
-Builds complex 0 -> 1 products.
Create Product Vision and Strategy: Requires knowledge of problem formulation and solutioning, hypothesis framing, business strategies, business management practices across multiple domains, customer segments and needs, domain-specific knowledge, "Go to Market" strategies, industry, environmental, and economic factors and competitors, product discovery process, product vision, product strategy and challenges, rapid prototyping and Lean experimentation methodologies, and concepts of "First Principle," "Whole Product," and "Crossing the Chasm".
-Owns a simple customer problem and/or product requirements/needs.
-Assists in building new ideas/products.
-Explores new focus areas/unchartered areas for value creation leveraging first principles and develops a long-term vision.
-Articulates problem statements and hypotheses.
-Guides team members towards proto@types.
-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.
Influence and Build Stakeholder Consensus: Requires knowledge of verbal/non-verbal behaviors, application and allocation of business communication styles/techniques in ambiguous and challenging situations, situational awareness, elements of Emotional Intelligence and Influencing Styles, communication channels/mediums, interpersonal skills, and universal relationship building.
-Communicates in one-to-one/stakeholder meetings involving one-two teams.
-Proactively builds professional network.
-Articulates results/recommendations.
-Actively listens to others and acknowledges different technical perspectives and connects to the product/technology in development [6].
Be Technically Oriented: Requires knowledge of competitive technology landscapes, existing portfolio of enterprise systems, technologies, services, and architecture, common PaaS and IaaS technologies and environments, software quality assurance methodologies, tools, processes, and checkpoints, emerging technology and industry trends, product and technology innovation.
-Demonstrates an understanding of InfoSec policies and process.
-Owns business and user acceptance testing for simple products/features.
-Independently represents technology requirements and drives technology design outcomes.
-Demonstrates an understanding of product architecture, services involved, and the database and cloud technologies used.
-Leverages knowledge of competitor products/services for assigned products.
-Drives informed discussions with engineering teams and stakeholders to assess feasibility and risks and prioritize efforts, features, and capabilities
Minimum Qualifications:
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years' experience in product management.
Option 2: 13 years' experience in product management or related area.
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 Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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 (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
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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.
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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .
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Live Better U is a 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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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart (https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J) .
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The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$260,000.00
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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years' experience in product management. Option 2: 13 years' experience in product management or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years' experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, Supervisory experience, 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.
Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science
Primary Location...
2501 Se J St, Ste A, Bentonville, AR 72716-3724, United States of America
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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
