(Ind) Staff, Product Manager

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

About Team: 

The Payments Intelligence team optimizes billions of payments through advanced analytics and machine learning. We build and operate a real-time data platform that powers revenue growth, fraud prevention, and enhanced customer experiences across Payments, Directed Spend, Checkout, and promotions. Our team is responsible for developing and deploying ML models that improve payment authorization rates, strengthen payment resiliency, and increase the effectiveness of promotions and rewards programs. We also drive adoption of Directed Spend by providing actionable insights.

Our team supports cross divisional programs for Transactional Systems as a part of the Global Tech organization. 

What you'll do: 

We are looking for a Product Manager who has the passion to lead and direct large-scale, complex, multi-year product and data/ML roadmaps across organizations, executives, stakeholders, with the ability to influence partner teams, data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers. A successful candidate will have an established background in launching software or services, hands on data science, AI, ML, technical background or experience driving technical products, an entrepreneurial background, and a passion for great customer-centric online products.

Your work will have direct impact on Walmart’s top-line revenue and bottom-line profit and you will have a direct impact on the business goals of Fortune #1 company. This role also offers a unique opportunity to innovate and improve on ways to use Walmart’s e-comm & omni-channel products like Scan & Go, Walmart Stores and external data to solve problems.

This is a vital role with significant growth prospects. You will have work to do from day one and you will be counted on to create opportunities that align with the overall organization goals. Some of this role’s key responsibilities include, but not limited to:  

• You are able to be both visionary and execute your vision.
• 10+ years of relevant work in technical product management, owning and driving end-to-end product requirements across multiple technology teams.
• Experience in payments or retail or financial services industry as technical product manager.
• Experience in building data products leveraging data science (AI and ML) – revenue growth, customer success, risk management.
• Passion for technology, willingness to dive deep into the technical products Walmart is building, and commitment to learning and expanding technical knowledge
• An understanding of ML platforms, large-scale systems, and service-oriented architecture
• Ability to lead, drive consensus and deliver in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly and convincingly to a wide range of audiences., manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
• Ability to dig into data and story tell based on the analysis. Build compelling business cases and ROIs and proactively drive business insights and optimizations.
• Ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented, opinionated team.
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• You are passionate, driven, and humble in your approach. Communicate program plans, status, and outcomes to senior leadership.   

• Work with engineering, business and products team members across multiple geographies and time-zones. 

What you’ll bring: 

• Bringing Passion to ideate, plan, and ensure customer privacy is at the forefront of all we do.
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing large datasets and developing dashboards to derive insights. Comfortable with SQL or a programming language.
• Conducting industry and competitive analysis – we aim to be best in class.
• Partnering with various stakeholders across the organization.
• Developing and implementing process and tools – you will manage the establishment of a new way of managing product imagery at Walmart.
• Defining vision and strategies for product content creation at Walmart, using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, identifying opportunities, building business cases, and gaining alignment in multiple internal and external stakeholder communities.
• Building collaborative relationships with key partners by driving priorities aligned to business goals, communicating, and prioritizing implementation milestones, and gaining buy-in from executive leadership.
• Providing overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs.
• Being Decisive regarding expanding or shutting parts of the imagery operation based on business need and efficiency.
• Accomplished degree in BE/Btech/MBA/MTech/MS and minimum 10 years ofproduct management,  leading product or solution development and gathering, identifying, defining, and communicating requirements.
• Two years of successful execution in a matrixed organization
• Ability and willingness to think and act strategically and tactically

About Walmart 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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives. 

  

Benefits    

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include many best-in-class benefits like maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and more. 

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor of Science and 5 years' product management experience OR Master of Science and 2 years' product management experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India