Walmart's Product team places customers and associates are at the heart of everything we build. We're a curious bunch. We dream big, but we also hold ourselves accountable for reaching our goals. We get to apply our product management expertise on the world's biggest stage.
We are at the forefront of innovation. We partner with technologists and scientists who fall in love with the problems and collaborate across teams to create inclusive, award-winning products.
About the Team
As a part of Walmart’s eCommerce Product team, you’ll be the voice of our customer. Walmart was founded with the belief that the customer is #1. It’s not just a belief, but our way of doing business. With the customer at the forefront, we can help deliver save both time and money for our customers no matter how they shop with us and reach them in new, exciting ways.
The eCommerce Product team builds products to enhance the experience for millions of customers who shop with us online or use the app to shop in our stores. You’ll leverage the best and latest technologies to develop experiences that have changed the industry.
The Search Product team within eCommerce is responsible for delivering the platform that helps our customers discover the right products and services that Walmart has to offer. The team leverages sophisticated machine learning, data science and big data technologies to understand customers’ intent and provide relevant product and services through the best possible experience. The team also provides tools to our internal stakeholders to help promote and discover new items and experiences, our associates to fulfill our customers’ needs, and provide feedback to our merchants on products, customers need. We serve millions of queries every single day, use the most cutting-edge technologies to drive discoverability at scale and help our customers navigate our assortment seamlessly.
As a Principal Product manager for Variant Experience in Search, you will lead the vision and charter to drive the E2E item variant experience that will be used by millions of our customers. This leader will work closely with engineering, data science and design to build the best-in-class variant platform and elevate the right variant (color, style, pattern etc..) for each item – every single time. This leader will own both the front-end experience to display and elevate the right variant for each item, as well as owns the back-end architecture and AI/ML models which selects the most desirable variant based on customer, journey and query context. You will be responsible for leading the 4 in the box, implementing and influencing the ways of working, leading discovery with product mindset, customer centricity and data driven decisions. You will be managing cross-functional leadership and stakeholder alignment across partner teams including Technology, Business, Design and Product partners.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Reimagining the Search Variant E2E platform and experience with a group of talented designers, product managers, platform engineers, and data scientists
- Defining product vision and strategies for Variants
- Build product roadmaps and create PRDs, by aligning business and technical needs, and turning customer insights into actionable initiatives. You will be responsible for determining rollout strategy, manage risks, and evolve these capabilities to operate at Walmart-scale.
- Problem solving with smart people
- Test and Learn – you will define AB tests with your analytics partners, measure success, suggest improvements, iterate on your products and features, and tell compelling stories with data and UX
- Evangelize a platform-thinking culture
- Having fun!
We’re looking for a dynamic leader who is…
- Customer Obsessed – you will always start with customer’s needs first and obsess over every aspect of her experience. You will work to reduce customer effort and aim to delight her with best possible search and discovery platform. Never fail a customer!
- Creative & Innovative - you are an innovative thinker and able to synthesize data from multiple sources (including analytics, user research, and design) to identify key unmet needs and solutions that can address the needs. You relish in solving problem in simplest possible way!
- Collaborative & Influential - you have the ability to influence executive and work collaboratively with large number of teams to make the vision of the product successful. You build bridges!
- Curious & Data-driven – you are comfortable with big data technologies and ML tools. You consider yourself analytical and draw insights from new & varied information and inputs. You are always learning!
- Strategic - 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 solve for long term while delivering results now.
- A Product Leader - you lead and inspire teams, evangelize product strategy and vision and develop a talented team. You are empathetic leader who draws the best from all.
What you should be excited about:
- Using data metrics to improve performance
- Solving complex challenges
- Customer-centric spirit
- Operating like a startup at scale! Our speed of execution is one of the best in the industry.
- Influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, and communicating clearly
- Experimenting, Testing and learning
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.
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.
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