Director, Product Management – Inventory Findability

About the role

At Walmart, we're transforming how the world shops. Every day, hundreds of millions of customers and members rely on us to connect them with the products they need across stores, clubs, and digital channels. Behind every successful shopping journey is a powerful ecosystem of inventory intelligence, product discoverability, and merchant decision-making. We're seeking a visionary Director, Product Management – Inventory Findability to lead the strategy, innovation, and execution of a critical product portfolio that powers how inventory is found, positioned, priced, and surfaced across the enterprise. This leader will shape the future of our Global Enterprise Product Findability and Merchant Intent platform, driving measurable business outcomes at one of the world's largest retailers.

What you'll do

Define the Future of Inventory Findability
You'll own the vision, strategy, and execution for a portfolio that includes:

• Product Findability
• Merchant Intent
• Planogram Solutions
• Pricing Platforms
• Digital Shelf Language (DSL)
• Wayfinding and Inventory Discovery Experiences

You'll connect customer needs, merchant priorities, operational realities, and technology capabilities into a cohesive product strategy that improves discoverability, inventory productivity, and customer satisfaction across Walmart's ecosystem.

Lead Customer-Centered Innovation
You'll champion a deep understanding of customers, merchants, operators, and associates by:

• Driving customer research, journey mapping, and opportunity discovery
• Defining high-impact problem statements and measurable success metrics
• Ensuring teams focus on outcomes, not outputs
• Translating customer insights into scalable product solutions
• Building durable feedback loops that continuously improve the customer experience

Shape Product Strategy at Enterprise Scale
As the product leader for this portfolio, you will:

• Develop and communicate a multi-year product vision
• Align roadmaps to enterprise priorities and business objectives
• Evaluate build, buy, partner, and platform reuse opportunities
• Navigate complex tradeoffs across technology, operations, and customer value
• Influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic alignment across the organization

Drive End-to-End Product Excellence
You'll oversee the entire product lifecycle, including:

• Discovery and product definition
• Prioritization and roadmap management
• Development and launch execution
• Adoption, measurement, and optimization
• Value realization and business impact tracking

You'll partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Business leaders to deliver solutions that create measurable results.

Accelerate Data & AI-Powered Decision Making
You'll lead teams in leveraging advanced analytics, experimentation, and AI to:

• Define and monitor outcome-based product metrics
• Establish instrumentation and measurement frameworks
• Apply experimentation and A/B testing to validate decisions
• Extract actionable insights from complex datasets
• Integrate AI capabilities into both products and product development processes

Build High-Performing Teams
You'll lead multiple product teams and play a critical role in developing Walmart's next generation of product leaders by:

• Coaching and mentoring product managers
• Establishing clear performance expectations and growth opportunities
• Building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams
• Creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning
• Strengthening cross-functional collaboration across the organization

Requirements

• Significant experience leading Product Management organizations at scale
• Proven success owning complex product portfolios and enterprise platforms
• Experience building and executing multi-year product strategies
• Strong track record of delivering measurable business and customer outcomes
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business functions
• Demonstrated success influencing senior executives and enterprise stakeholders
• Experience leveraging data, experimentation, and customer insights to drive decisions
• Strong financial acumen, including understanding product investments, business value, and resource allocation

Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years' experience in product management
• Option 2: 13 years' experience in product management or related area

Preferred qualifications

• Retail, merchandising, inventory, supply chain, pricing, or store operations experience
• Experience with enterprise platforms, internal tools, and operational technology
• AI/ML-enabled product development experience
• Experience leading globally distributed teams
• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years' experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products
• Supervisory experience
• Background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes (amount depends on job classification and length of employment; meets or exceeds paid sick leave laws where applicable)
• Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates (high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, short-form certificates; tuition, books, and fees completely paid)

Pay

• Annual salary range: $130,000.00 – $260,000.00
• Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses
• Additional compensation for certain positions may also include stock

Schedule

Primary Location: 802 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

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