Calling tech enthusiasts with a knack for problem-solving, a love for APIs, and a fun collaborative workspace to lead product development for our externalized APIs. These APIs enhance communication between our supplier system and third-party apps, offering a collaborative, fun and challenging environment to hone your skills while making direct business impact.
The Staff Product Manager leads developer-centric API product lifecycles through a deep understanding of Walmart’s supplier system capabilities and their alignment with Supplier goals. As a primary steward of our internal systems, you’ll ensure the APIs in our App Store are built for performance, usability and reliability. Reporting to the Director of Product, your role is critical to Walmart’s ability to share its services or data with third-party developers driving product innovation and expanding our assortment. This role requires smooth collaboration with other Walmart PMs and influencing them on inclusion and prioritization of dependent features and capabilities.
You’ll sweep us off our feet if…
· You have a knack for engaging with stakeholders and users, sifting through their input and deriving essential requirements, to ensure that the API is tailored to their needs.
· You excel at evaluating and ranking features and improvements, considering business implications, user necessities, and technical feasibility.
· You’re great at articulating the benefits and application of APIs to internal teams, customers, and partners, ensuring understanding and effective utilization.
· You are obsessed with API performance and usage, and incorporate feedback, leading to ongoing product enhancement.
· You ensure that the APIs adhere to pertinent regulations and standards including those related to data privacy and security, thereby mitigating risk.
· You are skilled at creation of comprehensive and easily understandable documentation for the APIs, aiding developers in optimizing their usage.
· You pro-actively identify opportunities for innovation, and improvement of core capabilities by actively bringing in best practices from competitors and leveraging industry knowledge.
· You demonstrate the culture of data-driven decisions to define and articulate key business and product metrics
You’ll make an impact by:
· Developing strategic roadmaps – Lead the Product lifecycle for multiple complex products. Manage features via a multi-phased roadmap and execute working with large-sized cross-functional teams.
· Lead product development – synthesize user, business requirements into product documentation for engineering and lead the work through ideation, design, development, and launch.
· Backlog refinement – own the backlog refinement sessions with engineering partners to enable sizing and scoping of user stories. Attend and participate in key scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-up, sprint planning and retrospectives.
· Producing compelling stories and visuals – Showcase complex features to end users, executive leadership and co-author launch messages with business and engineering partners.
· Measure and articulate impact – Conducts and articulates complex ROI analyses of solutions to problems to identify, measure and correlate the impact of adoption to business value.
Live our Values -
Culture Champion - Models the Walmart values to foster our culture; holds oneself and others accountable; and supports Walmart's commitment to communities, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability; maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance.
Live our Values - Servant Leadership - Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Embrace Change - Curiosity & Courage - Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Embrace Change - Digital Transformation & Change - Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working.
Deliver for the Customer -
Customer Focus - Delivers expected business results while putting the customer first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
Deliver for the Customer - Strategic Thinking - Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team's strategy.
Focus on our Associates - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - Identifies, attracts, and retains diverse and inclusive team members; builds a high-performing team; embraces diversity in all its forms; and actively supports diversity goal programs.
Focus on our Associates - Collaboration & Influence - Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and communicates with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action.
Focus on our Associates - Talent Management - Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
