(USA) Principal, Product Manager

Role summary

As Principal Product Manager for the AI Builder Experience Platform, you’ll lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the shared AI platform powering builder experiences across Walmart Global Tech. You’ll own core capabilities spanning runtime and routing, context and memory, observability, reliability, and extensibility across Web, IDE, CLI, Slack, Automations, and emerging surfaces. Partnering with engineers, product teams, and platform leaders, you will turn recurring needs into scalable capabilities and establish rigorous AI evaluation frameworks. Success means delivering a trusted, extensible foundation that improves AI quality, accelerates developer workflows, reduces friction, and enables developers and AI agents to work effectively.

About the team

The Builder Experience Product Management team, part of the Global Technology Platform, transforms how Walmart develops and operates software. Combining AI, developer tooling, automation, governance, and engineering intelligence, the team enhances the software development lifecycle from planning to operation. They create shared platform capabilities reusable across products and collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to address key developer challenges. The team defines product strategy and roadmaps, establishes measurable outcomes, and builds scalable solutions that enable Walmart teams to adopt, extend, and innovate on the platform efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Core AI platform: own vision, strategy, and roadmap for shared intelligence and runtime capabilities powering Walmart’s AI developer experiences.
• Build for scale: create reusable capabilities for routing, context, memory, reliability, observability, and extensibility across Web, IDE, CLI, Slack, Automations, and more.
• Grow the ecosystem: define how teams and partners integrate with and extend the platform without creating fragmentation.
• Improve developer outcomes: use customer insights, telemetry, and rigorous AI evaluations to improve quality, task success, productivity, and reliability.
• Drive alignment: turn complex technical needs into clear priorities, product requirements, and decisions across engineering and product teams.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years in technology, including 5+ years in Product Management.
• Experience leading developer, AI, infrastructure, or other technically complex platforms.
• Strong technical fluency across APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, and developer workflows.
• Proven ability to translate complex technology into scalable products and measurable outcomes.
• Experience using data and customer insights to prioritize roadmaps and influence engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
• 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

• Experience with AI/ML or LLM platforms, agentic systems, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing APIs, SDKs, extensibility models, AI evaluation frameworks, or multi‑product platform capabilities.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 8 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally on consumer‑facing, large‑scale, highly complex B2B/C products.
• Supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of inclusive digital experiences, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and accessibility best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with annual range $143,000 – $286,000.
• Performance‑based bonus awards (annual or quarterly).
• Stock awards.
• Health coverage: medical, vision, dental.
• Financial benefits: 401(k), stock purchase plan, company‑paid life insurance.
• Paid time off (PTO/PPTO) covering vacation, sick leave, holidays, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, voting, and other purposes.
• Short‑term and long‑term disability.
• Company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Live Better U education benefit: tuition, books, and fees fully paid for eligible programs.

Pay

Annual salary range: $143,000 – $286,000. Additional compensation includes performance bonuses and stock awards.