(USA) Group Director, Product Management

Position Summary

What you'll do...

The most senior People Leader role in Product Management below VP.

Governs the product portfolio across multiple complex product families, driving enterprise-level strategic alignment, financial performance, and organizational capability at scale.

Defines long-term vision and product strategy by collaborating to develop corporate financial plans; identifying and facilitating disruptive innovation opportunities; approving business cases; prioritizing and allocating resources.

Accountable for multi-year product strategy, executive alignment, and building a world-class product management organization.

Portfolio Strategy & Vision Leadership

• Defines long-term product vision and strategy for multiple complex product families by integrating business objectives, customer needs, market conditions, and competitive trends.
• Establishes strategic priorities, financial plans, and multi-year product objectives by synthesizing insights from customer behavior, operational data, and enterprise priorities.
• Approves business cases, resource allocation frameworks, and success metrics for major initiatives across the portfolio.
• Shapes Walmart's competitive product positioning through market intelligence, innovation pipeline management, and strategic partnerships.

Product Portfolio Governance & Execution

• Oversees end-to-end portfolio development by guiding Directors and Senior Managers on roadmap creation, dependency management, and technology integration.
• Evaluates risks, architectural decisions, and downstream impacts to ensure feasibility and alignment to long-term enterprise strategy.
• Drives the product discovery process to improve product success; creates guidelines for validation at different levels (product, problem, user).
• Reviews and updates PM processes to formalize expectations; oversees MVP and final product rollout and scaling processes.

Cross-Functional & Executive Alignment

• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business units by communicating strategic choices and tradeoffs.
• Aligns C-suite and executive leaders on prioritization decisions, customer needs, and investment direction through data-driven narratives and strategic reviews.
• Drives coordination across product families to ensure interoperability, scalable platform thinking, and shared success metrics.
• Presents to leadership and organization-wide audiences, positioning arguments/data with well-structured stories; builds consensus in sensitive situations.

Organizational Leadership & Capability Building

• Develops a world-class product organization by diagnosing capability gaps, leading talent planning, and enabling succession readiness at all levels.
• Coaches Directors and Senior Managers in product strategy, execution rigor, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional leadership.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, ethical decision-making, and adherence to company standards and values.
• Shapes the product management discipline, career framework, and competency standards for the enterprise.

Data, AI & Insight-Driven Decision Making

• Advances adoption of AI-powered product development practices, ensuring teams understand feasibility, risks, and customer value impacts.
• Champions insight extraction and experimentation frameworks to drive evidence-based prioritization and optimize portfolio outcomes.
• Drives responsible AI governance across the product portfolio; ensures ethical standards and risk mitigation in AI-powered capabilities.
• Leads adoption of new and emerging technologies; assesses market to selectively adopt technologies and drive innovation.

Key Skills

• Product Strategy
• Leadership
• Product Management
• Product Roadmaps
• Influencing Skills

Respect the Individual

• Builds high-performing teams
• Sets up and manages the talent pipeline
• Empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company
• Supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best, diverse talent
• Works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives
• Communicates and listens attentively, with energy and positivity to motivate, influence, and inspire commitment and action

Act with Integrity

• Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance
• Models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture
• Supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by taking action to advance opportunity, sustainability, community, and integrity (e.g., creating fair opportunities for associates and suppliers, driving local giving efforts)

Serve our Customers and Members

• Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first
• Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies

Strive for Excellence

• Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve
• Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset
• Seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking
• Exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks

Minimum Qualifications

• Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 15 years’ experience in product management.
• Option 2: 17 years’ experience in product management or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related area and 14 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
• Supervisory experience.
• We value candidates with a 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.
• The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
• Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location

1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Additional Compensation

The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00 - $370,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : Stock