Position Summary...

Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practice; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment ; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas. In-Depth Domain Expertise: Requires knowledge of: Domain-specific methodologies, tools, and processes; Domain-specific products; Domainspecific best practices; Domain-specific market standards in product/platform architecture To demonstrate awareness of various principles, ways of
working, and terminologies across a domain. Compares and contrasts the latest developments and emerging trends and issues in a domain.
Identifies areas of innovation within a domain while understanding downstream impacts on subdomains. Identifies areas for the implementation of
new processes, automation techniques, and updated ways of working while understanding downstream impacts on subdomains. Driving 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; Communication and influencing techniques. To drive a culture to
understand and address customization needs based on functional requirements. Enables the creation of an ecosystem that identifies and addresses
unmet customer needs. 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; Concepts of "First Principle," "Whole Product," and "Crossing the Chasm" . To own multiple complex
customer problem/needs. Promotes and drives value creation in evergreen and new areas using "Whole Product" concepts. Drives the product
discovery process to improve product success. Creates guidelines for validation at different levels (for example, product, problem, user). Promotes
strategies and vision and impacts on various related products. Provides guidance in creating "Go-to-Market" strategies by considering relevant user
seg 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; Product development concepts (for example, "Crossing the Chasm") To own roadmaps of multiple
complex product lines/product families and works with leadership to ensure alignment with overall business strategy. Creates strategies/processes
that drive compliance and ethical norms. Addresses external/market constraints. Reviews and updates PM processes to formalize expectations.
Oversees MVP and final product rollout and scaling processes. 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); Modern industry practices and emerging trends. To extract insights and promote the
value of insight extraction from complex data analytics. Guides and extracts relevant data to drive effective product decisions. Demonstrates
awareness of best practices in insight extraction from databases techniques. Independently drives product/feature analytics. Influencing and Building 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. To lead discussions with varying viewpoints and
influences diverse audiences. Leverages fact-based data and analytics insights to build a cohesive narrative. Demonstrates decision and coordination
skills. Serves as a trusted advisor to diverse stakeholders on the product/technology matters. Provides timely feedback and seeks, internalizes, and
utilizes feedback received. Technology Orientation: 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. To lead the adoption of new and emerging technologies.
Assesses and researches the market to selectively adopt technologies and drive innovation. Collaborates with engineering managers and team
members to maintain technical debt at optimal levels. Recognizes risks in architectural choices and guides team members on architectural choices.
Forecasts competitor, market, and technology trends.

What you'll do...

 About the Team

As a part of Walmart’s eCommerce Product Org, you’ll be the voice of our customer. With the customer at the forefront, we have the ability to help deliver save both time and money for our customers no matter how they shop with us and reach them in new, unexpected ways.

With our user-centric approach to problem solving, customers and associates are at the heart of everything we build. A curious bunch, we fall in love with the problem that needs solving and collaborate with our design, technology, and business partners to create inclusive, award-winning solutions. Our entrepreneurial spirit, like that of our founder Sam Walton, pushes us to dream big, but we also hold ourselves accountable with objectives and key results. Innovating on the world’s biggest stage, we get to put our product management expertise to work to deliver customer-centric shopping solutions like the Walmart app, game-changing financial and health and wellness services, and next generation associate tools, like an augmented reality stocking app, and so much more. This is that place where our work has a purpose, and we see it play out in our stores and communities every day.
 

What you will do

You’ll Make an Impact By...

• Defining vision and strategies for our specific areas in ecommerce such as personalization and consideration – you will use your domain expertise in ecommerce and mobile apps, internal and external best practices, identifying market opportunities, building business cases, and approving objectives.
• Developing and enhancing products – you will manage product roadmaps, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data, turn customer insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risks
• Crafting and developing solutions to large business challenges – you will communicate business and customer needs to key partners to implement products and timelines
• Driving business plans and projects – you will identify the customer and operational needs of the product
• Building an inclusive team environment while developing the team to excel as best product managers in the industry – you will select, train, and mentor
• Evaluating the effectiveness of your products and initiatives – you will improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness with participating stakeholders

What you’ll bring:

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…

• You have experience envisioning, launching and scaling product(s).
• You manage product teams, evangelize product strategy and vision to key leadership.
• You are able to translate product strategy into detailed specifications, making functional and user interface design tradeoffs, managing product launches and owning the product successes post-launch.
• You are an empathetic partner to customers and proactively anticipate requirements, influence and guide team towards building appropriate solutions.
• You are an innovative thinker and able to synthesize data from multiple sources (including analytics, user research, operations research, and design) to identify key unmet needs and solutions that can address the needs.
• You are data-driven and analytical to draw insights from current product performance to deliver on key user metrics.
• You have the ability to work with large number of teams to make the vision of the product successful.

Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced/masters degree in engineering or management is preferred.

- Minimum 12+ years of software product management experience with deep exposure to operations research and data science based solutions.

- Expert level understanding of systems/processes/trends in ecommerce, retail and specifically areas of personalization, consideration, search

- Expert level of understanding of the retail business

- Proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams. Minimum 3years+ experience of leading managers of PMs

- Strong communication and storytelling skills for technically complex problems.

- Flexible and adaptive in ambiguous environments

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 2.3 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.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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.

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 responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 13 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 15 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 12 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, Supervisory experience

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India