(USA) Principal, Data Analyst

Walmart’s Search experience is a critical entry point for customers, shaping product discovery, purchase decisions, and overall shopping satisfaction. We are seeking a Principal Analyst, Search Product to partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Business teams across the end-to-end search stack—including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, post-retrieval optimization, and UI/UX.

About the team

The Product Analytics team partners with Product, Engineering, Design, and Data Science to enable data-driven decisions throughout the eCommerce journey and Store Operations. This team delivers insights that guide product launches, optimization, and scaling to improve customer experiences and business results. The team blends analytical expertise with business knowledge to influence initiatives from ideation to launch, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure measurable impact and ongoing product performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics across the end-to-end Search product experience, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and UI/UX.
• Define and evolve search health metrics to measure customer experience, relevance, and business impact.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses and opportunity sizing to identify high-impact product improvements and influence roadmap priorities.
• Design, execute, and interpret rigorous experiments (A/B, multivariate, Bayesian, and quasi-experimental) to evaluate product changes and guide launch decisions.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design to optimize search performance and customer outcomes.
• Build scalable analytical frameworks and communicate data-driven recommendations that shape product strategy and raise analytical excellence.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in product analytics, data science, business analytics, or a related quantitative role, ideally in eCommerce, marketplace, search, recommendations, advertising, or consumer product experiences.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience working with large-scale behavioral, transactional, or event-level datasets.
• Deep experience with experimentation, including metric selection, test design, statistical interpretation, guardrails, segmentation, and launch recommendations.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect customer behavior with business impact.
• Experience conducting ambiguous, high-impact analyses where the answer is not obvious and the problem needs to be structured from first principles.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear analytical narratives, dashboards, and metric readouts.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.
• Option 3: 6 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field.
• Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce).
• Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau).

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.
• 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.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00 - $234,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses and stock for certain positions.

Primary location: 815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America.