Director, Product Management

What you'll do... Owns product vision and strategy for a complex product family. Leads multiple product teams through the full lifecycle—from discovery through value realization. Owns complex customer problems including upstream and downstream impacts. Manages cross-functional trade-offs at scale, develops product talent, and shapes organizational product practices. Accountable for financial outcomes and customer value delivery across the product family. Equivalent in scope and impact to Distinguished Product Manager on the IC track. Customer & Problem Leadership: Leads teams to develop deep customer and business understanding by institutionalizing research, journey mapping, and use of operational and financial data. Shapes high-impact problem statements and success metrics for complex product areas, ensuring work frames around measurable outcomes rather than feature outputs. Coaches product managers on structured discovery, opportunity sizing, and customer-centric prioritization to align roadmaps with portfolio and enterprise objectives. Builds and maintains consistent relationships with customers; proactively identifies needs; creates scalable processes to gather and analyze customer experiences. Product Vision & Strategy: Owns product vision and strategy for a complex product family, connecting customer problems, business value, and technology capabilities into a clear multi-year direction. Translates vision into sequenced roadmaps by assessing impact, risk, dependencies, and trade-offs, including build / buy / partner decisions and platform reuse. Aligns stakeholders around strategic choices and outcomes, guiding teams through ambiguity with data and conviction. Owns P&A implications of product decisions; translates product strategy into financial outcomes and resource allocation recommendations. Product Lifecycle Management & Execution: Directs end-to-end execution across the product lifecycle—from discovery and definition through launch, adoption, and iteration. Manages cross-functional trade-offs across Engineering, Design, and Business partners, balancing scope, technical feasibility, cost, quality, and time-to-value. Establishes standards for launch readiness, risk management, and value realization, including acceptance criteria, telemetry plans, and post-launch optimization. Manages roll out and scaling using MVP approach of complex products/features; navigates organizational and market constraints. Data & AI-Driven Decisions: Champions data-driven decision making by defining outcome-based metrics for the product family; guides teams on instrumentation, dashboards, and data quality. Guides teams in applying experimentation and A/B testing to validate assumptions, inform prioritization, and optimize experiences. Drives appropriate leverage of AI and data capabilities in both the product and the product development lifecycle (PDLC). Extracts insights and promotes the value of insight extraction from complex data analytics; independently drives product/feature analytics. People Leadership & Organizational Influence: Provides leadership to multiple product teams; sets expectations, establishes performance measures, and ensures alignment to departmental plans and enterprise strategy. Attracts, develops, and retains product talent through coaching, feedback, mentoring, and succession planning. Builds partnerships with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business stakeholders; drives alignment through transparent communication. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics. Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans, determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and harnesses internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas. Key Skills: Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Product Management, Data-Driven Decision Making Respect the Individual: Builds high-performing teams; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all. Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; builds the talent pipeline, fosters an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work, empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments; supports strategies and drives initiatives that attract and retain the best talent. Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively and cross-functionally to achieve objectives; and 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). Act with Integrity: Ensures that teams follow the law, our code of conduct and company policies; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and models our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action and enables others to do the same; holds self and teams accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values. Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble, self-aware. Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acting with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members. Serve our Customers and Members: 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; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks. Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements, supervises the adoption of new technology, and supports digital disruption in line with Walmart’s business model. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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 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. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart. The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Stock 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 11 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 13 years’ experience in product management or related area. 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 10 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. 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