Group Director, Product Management - Cloud and Data at Walmart in Sunnyvale, California

Job Description:

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Position Summary...




What you'll do...



If you're thinking 'scale', think bigger, and don't stop there. At Walmart Global Technology, we don't just innovate; we enable transformations across stores and online channels for the Walmart experience. We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week more than 260+ million customers and members visit our 11,600+ stores under 69 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With last fiscal year revenues of approximately $524 billion and 2.3 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the world's largest retail business. Our teams collaborate across the globe to build and deploy solutions that enhance our customer experience, improve the lives of our associates, and create value for our business.


Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a seamless and straightforward experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics enable us to serve our customers better and create a digital relationship. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We're changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from the physical stores to mobile, social, and even online; we're not just ready for the future of shopping, we're creating it.



About Team:



The Walmart Global Platform Product team manages the Platformportfolio capabilities to supportWalmart's applications and infrastructure needs. The organization owns the platformproducts (Distributed Public/Private/Edge Cloud Infrastructure & Services, Databases, Streaming, Big Data, Machine Learning), vision, strategy, roadmap, andlife cycle processes delivering scalablesolutions to Walmart.


Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.



What you'll do:



The Platform Product organization has the vision to provide a transformative, scalable, secure, and efficient Platform as a Product that brings business value to our customers. The organization offers a huge opportunity to streamline, innovate, and build the right Cloud and Data products for a multi-cloud ecosystem.


You will lead the Product Platforms team to drive the product innovations, adoption, and solutions to the applications team and developers across the globe. The products' portfolio involves developing products for Hybrid Multi-Cloud. The team will look through the spectrum of products and drive consistency and standardization, which are cost-effective and provide business value to Walmart.

• Translate application team needs into product roadmap from platform organization.


• Build and unify the Platform portfolio and look at the Platform as a product


• Improve the overall product excellence, developer, and application teams' experience in product adoption and usage.


• Continuously innovate product capabilities based on the evolving application needs keeping scalability, availability, and high performance in mind.


• Measure and improve the critical business metrics to enhance ROI, the choice of build vs. buy, and adopting cutting technology products from the market.


• Provide Multi-Cloud Product Evangelism and Technology leadership and vision.


• Employ the best product management methodologies with a deep understanding of customers' requirements, customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow adoption, improve customer experience, and drive business growth.


• Provide high-level strategy and framework to apply across the products' portfolio to evaluate, build, and manage the Products.


• Collaborate with platform engineering teams, drive product roadmap, and deliver quick time-to-market by prioritizing the activities and product requirements.


• Act as the brand ambassador of all the Cloud & Data Platform portfolio products and drive adoption by providing solutions leveraging platform products across all Walmart segments.


• Build a strong relationship with Walmart's different business segments, provide consulting and adoption services throughout the application development life cycle.


• Provide the right architectural advice best practices in product adoption, help accelerate application development.


• Collaborate with the enterprise architecture team to build patterns and blueprints, which can be reused and deployed across different business segments.


• Evaluate overall performance by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data and metrics.


• Focus on generating intellectual property assets on operational support models, tools, and techniques implemented.

What you'll bring:

• Build, coach, and drive a high-performance Cloud and Data product team that fosters an environment of focusing on building Multi-cloud platform products for developers and applications teams that prioritizes features to maximize business value.


• Think, design, and build high return on investment through continuous improvement of product features with a clear roadmap anddrive the engineering and architecture priorities.


• Provide a transparent and accurate total cost and utilization for each global product to manageconsumption, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency.


• Improve product adoption by creating a seamless Multi-Cloud and Data ecosystem.


• Build, develop, and guide high-performing talent for the Product organization.


• Engage with leaders worldwide to build strategy and define priorities for the team to deliver the best services.


• Create a collaborative environment across geographies that deliver the best services to customers around the globe.


• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.


• Provide supervision, mentoring, and development opportunities for associates, engineering managers, and technologists.


• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent


• 15+ years of experience in engineering, support, and cutting-edge product development space with excellent technology, consulting, and product knowledge


• Strong hands-on knowledge in technology & product leadership of conceptualizing, incubating, and building multi-cloud products in the tier 0/1 products like Azure, GCP, Databases, Streaming, Big Data, Machine Learning and Telemetry Systems in the Private/Public cloud and edge environments.


• Strong technical background with the capability of having a product design conversation with the engineering team and providing strategic thought leadership in shaping the product roadmap


• Ability to connect with customers, build empathy by being "in their shoes" to understand their needs and translate them into product requirements with a clear articulation of benefits.


• Experience in building large-scale high available, resilient platform products leveraging private and public clouds in cloud-native patterns that represent broad strategic initiatives


• Sound understanding of architecturally significant requirements and practices in the implementation of high availability, resilient, high performance, and scalable solutions


• Experience in hiring, coaching, and managing a team of high potential platform product managers


• Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate and drive the tough conversations in influencing the product adoption


• A proven ability to manage ambiguity and preparedness to get things done


• Experience working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment in managing technology-intensive, time-sensitive, geographically dispersed product support organizations across multiple locations and multiple domains.


• Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. They thrive in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, start-up-like environment.


• Should have deep interest and passion for technology


• Should be enthusiastic and excited about cloud computing and its impact on solving business problems at scale


• Should have strong problem solving, analytical, decision-making, communication, and interpersonal skills and should be a team player


• Should have strong people and relationship skills to build long-lasting relationships with Walmart business and technology teams

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.


People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.



Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.



Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.



Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.


The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.


At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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.


You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .


Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.


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 a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .


The annual salary range for this position is $254,000.00-$481,000.00


Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.


Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:


- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)


- Stock equity incentives




Minimum Qualifications...



Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.


Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 15 years' experience in product management or related experience at a technology and data-driven company focused on building products with new and emerging technologies.Option 2: 17 years' experience in product management or related experience at a technology and data-driven company focused on building products with new and emerging technologies.




Preferred Qualifications...



Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.


Master's degree in computer science, engineering, business administration or related area and 14 years' experience in back-end platform or highly complex B2B/C products or experience in roles requiring data-driven decision making and quantitative analysis skills (including deep knowledge of Excel, SQL, or statistics), Supervisory experience


Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science




Primary Location...

840 W CALIFORNIA AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4828, United States of America



About Walmart



At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?


Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.



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