Principal, Product Manager

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager (PPM) for Supplier APIs to lead the strategy, evolution, and adoption of a large-scale API ecosystem that underpins critical internal and external integrations. This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role responsible for shaping how APIs are designed, governed, and consumed across the organization.

Responsibilities

• API Strategy & Platform Vision
  • Define and own the long-term vision, principles, and roadmap for the Supplier API and broader connected ecosystem, collaborating with other domain leaders for a holistic and best-in-class experience for external partners.
  • Establish organization-wide standards for API design, lifecycle management, and backward compatibility.
  • Identify strategic opportunities where APIs can unlock reuse, scale, and faster product delivery and business impact.
• Product Leadership & Execution
  • Own product definition for foundational API capabilities across multiple domains.
  • Partner closely with engineering, architecture, and security to deliver scalable, resilient APIs.
  • Drive prioritization decisions that balance platform health, developer needs, and business outcomes.
• Developer Experience (DX)
  • Champion developers as primary users—both internal and external.
  • Improve API usability through clear contracts, documentation, tooling, and onboarding experiences.
  • Reduce time-to-value for API consumers and improve integration success rates.
• Platform Governance & Enablement
  • Define standards and best practices for API consistency, security, and access control.
  • Guide versioning, deprecation, and change management strategies.
  • Influence teams toward platform-first and reuse-oriented solutions.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Thought Leadership
  • Operate as the domain expert and trusted advisor to senior product, engineering, and business leaders.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to product managers on API and platform best practices.
  • Represent the supplier API platform in executive forums and strategic planning discussions.
• Measurement & Communication
  • Define and track success metrics for API adoption, reliability, and developer satisfaction.
  • Translate technical platform investments into clear business value narratives.
  • Communicate roadmap, progress, and risks to executive stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

• A Best-in-Class Supplier API Experience: Suppliers and partners experience Walmart’s APIs as a cohesive, intuitive, and dependable extension of our platform, regardless of domain or integration method. APIs feel intentionally designed, consistent, and easy to work with—earning trust as the preferred way to integrate and automate at scale.
• A Unified, End-to-End Platform Vision Brought to Life: A clear API vision and strategy is not only defined, but realized through execution, aligning teams around a shared direction while translating strategy into tangible improvements suppliers can feel. The ecosystem evolves deliberately rather than incrementally or inconsistently.
• Seamless Integration Across Internal Teams and External Partners: Internal product teams and external partners build against APIs that are connected, predictable, and interoperable, reducing friction at integration boundaries. APIs act as a unifying layer that enables faster delivery, smoother partnerships, and easier extension of core capabilities.
• APIs as a Strategic Growth and Scale Lever: APIs are recognized and managed as long-term strategic assets, enabling new capabilities, automation, and partnerships without introducing fragility. The platform scales confidently as volume, complexity, and use cases expand.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of platform or API products.
• Proven experience defining and scaling APIs used by multiple teams or external partners.
• Experience leading API or developer platforms at enterprise scale.
• Prior ownership of public or partner-facing APIs with strong adoption.
• Strong technical fluency in distributed systems and integration architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Exceptional communication skills with both technical and executive audiences.
• Familiarity with event-driven and asynchronous architectures (e.g., web hooks, streaming).
• Background working with complex identity, authentication, and authorization systems.
• Track record of improving developer experience through documentation, SDKs, or tooling.
• Experience operating in highly matrixed organizations with significant cross-team dependencies.
• Prior role as a principal- or staff-level product leader influencing multiple domains.
• Comfort presenting platform strategy and tradeoffs to executive leadership.
• Experience navigating regulated, security-conscious, or compliance-heavy environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 9 years’ experience in product management.
  • Option 2: 11 years’ experience in product management or related area.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 8 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.

Why This Role Matters

APIs are no longer just integration points—they are the connective tissue of modern platforms. This role is an opportunity to shape how our ecosystem evolves, setting the standards and direction for APIs that power innovation, automation, and partnership at scale. The Principal Product Manager for Supplier APIs will define a foundation that accelerates teams today and enables the platform to grow for years to come.

Benefits

• Health benefits: Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off: PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Additional PTO and/or PPTO depending on job classification and length of employment.
• Other benefits: Short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Education benefits: Live Better U, a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock for certain positions.

Schedule

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment.

Primary Location: 1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America