Principal Product Manager - Marketplace

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.

Our Team

This role is part of the Walmart Product team with a specific focus on building products for Walmart e-commerce. Your mission is to drive innovation in Walmart Marketplace.

As a Principal Product Manager on the team, you will collaborate with multiple functions including engineering, business and Sellers operations across geographies. You will work closely with key stakeholders on the merchandising side and drive the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution product strategy.

You will work on building the next generation marketplace platform serving all Walmart e-ecommerce across US and beyond. The goal would be to study and drive Seller productivity, Improve experience & usability with adoption of product offerings.

Who are you:

• Strong Retail/e-commerce domain knowledge
• Proven experience with Marketplace products as a Product Manager and led large business initiatives
• Ability to organize and prioritize work, establish realistic goals and deadlines and manage changing priorities
• Ability to achieve goals in an innovative environment and to evolve product strategy based on research, data, and industry trends
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to analysis products and process drive improvements aligned with strategic goals
• Creative/Strategic thinking skills
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple product areas and initiatives
• Build strong business partnership with key stakeholders
• Ability to explain the business and technical value of a technical offering to an audience mix of technical and non-technical customer representatives

Minimum Qualifications:

• Good academic record with Computer Science or Engineering background; prefer a top tier MBA
• 14 + years of Industry experience, focused on solving data & analytics challenges with minimum 6 years of product management experience; prefer some e-commerce or retail experience
• E-Commerce software evangelist
• Strong product management experience in managing customer and seller engagement platforms, proven experience in building data drive products to solve critical business problems considering user at the center stage
• Must have experience working with and influencing partner roadmap
• Solid understanding of how to build & marketplace products, Apps and platform solutions
• Proven experience leading products from concept through sales or user adoption
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good experience of working with globally distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner

What you’ll do

• Define and lead the vision and strategy for Walmart Marketplace seller tools and platform, provide product thought leadership in identifying critical customer requirements, understand business goals, define product end state, and work with development teams in designing optimal experience
• Work closely with architects and engineers to design scalable solutions while ensuring a frictionless user experience
• Work closely with the different business offering teams to understand the requirements, priorities, and drive towards a common goal
• Develop external & internal market analysis and fitment
• Do in-depth Build, buy, partner analysis, monetization, open-sourcing, & adoption strategies
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects
• Ensures business needs are being met
• Manage & drive partner roadmap relationships
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates
• Supports product implementation and deployment

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