(USA) Distinguished, Product Manager

Distinguished, Product Manager

Multiple locations Regular/ Permanent Salaried

Position Summary: As a Distinguished Product Manager at Walmart, this senior individual contributor role leads enterprise-wide product strategy and shapes organizational capabilities to enhance competitive positioning. The role involves managing multiple complex product lines by integrating market trends, customer insights, and business strategies. It drives the creation of strategic frameworks and go-to-market approaches that foster mass adoption and enterprise value. This position requires influencing senior stakeholders, guiding product lifecycle governance, and advancing technology adoption to deliver innovative, data-driven solutions aligned with Walmart's long-term vision and business objectives.

About the team: Walmart's Global Tech Platform Data Services team supports thousands of developers by simplifying software development across digital and physical business areas. The team manages millions of transactions per second and processes vast data volumes to enable efficient operations. As part of this team, the Distinguished Product Manager will lead efforts to design and develop cloud-native data platforms that support ingestion, processing, and AI/ML workloads. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the role focuses on aligning platform capabilities with business needs, driving strategic planning, and roadmap planning and execution to enhance Walmart's technology foundation.

What you'll do:

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform solutions that empower developers and application teams globally.
• Translate user needs into a strategic product roadmap, prioritizing features that drive measurable business value.
• Enhance developer experience and streamline adoption through continuous product innovation and operational excellence.
• Evolve platform capabilities to meet changing demands, with a focus on scalability, availability, and performance.
• Define and track key metrics to guide investment decisions and maximize ROI.
• Apply modern product management practices to identify customer needs, close product gaps, and accelerate adoption.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to execute the roadmap and reduce time-to-market.
• Use data-driven insights to evaluate platform performance and inform ongoing improvements.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, support, and product development, with strong technical and consulting expertise.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• Expertise in managing messaging, streaming and/or data security products
• Experience engaging senior leaders to define strategy and set priorities for world-class services.
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to influence product design and provide strategic direction.
• Customer-focused mindset with a talent for translating needs into impactful product solutions.
• Experience building resilient, scalable platforms using cloud-native architectures.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of delivering results in fast-paced, distributed environments.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications: Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years' experience in product management. Option 2: 13 years' experience in product management or related area.

Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years' experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, Supervisory experience.

Primary Location: 1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.