Principal, Product Manager - AI Shopping Platform

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role summary:

The Principal, Product Manager leads product strategy across a broad portfolio, driving organization-wide decisions through deep expertise and data-driven insights. This role owns complex customer challenges and product requirements, shaping long-term vision and multi-product roadmaps. The position influences senior stakeholders by delivering strategic narratives grounded in market and user insights, while promoting best practices in product management. It fosters cross-functional collaboration to ensure scalable solutions, guides product lifecycle execution, and advances innovation through emerging technologies and analytics to maximize business impact and customer value.

About the team:

The AI Shopping team is committed to enhancing how millions of customers discover, decide, and purchase products at Walmart. By developing intelligent shopping experiences across digital and physical channels, the team enables efficient mission completion. Focused on innovation and advanced technologies, members collaborate to create data-driven product strategies and roadmaps aligned with customer needs and business goals. The team drives impactful solutions in a dynamic retail environment, ensuring Walmart remains a trusted and helpful shopping companion through continuous improvement and strategic product leadership.

What you'll do

• Shape and drive product strategy across multiple related products, leveraging deep domain expertise and data-driven insights.
• Define and manage comprehensive product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to address complex customer problems and prioritize impactful solutions.
• Establish scalable mechanisms for gathering and interpreting customer feedback and product usage data.
• Guide teams in setting success metrics and validating product outcomes through rigorous analysis.
• Influence enterprise prioritization and strategic decisions through compelling data-backed narratives.
• Mentor product managers and promote best practices to elevate product management discipline.

What you'll bring

• Proven expertise in product strategy development and execution across multiple related products or large portfolios.
• Strong ability to build and manage comprehensive product roadmaps aligned with business and technical priorities.
• Demonstrated skill in stakeholder management, influencing cross-functional teams and senior leadership through data-driven insights.
• Experience leveraging advanced analytics and experimentation to inform product decisions and optimize outcomes.
• Deep understanding of customer needs using design thinking, journey mapping, and feedback mechanisms.
• Ability to lead complex product lifecycle processes, including MVP rollout and long-term evolution.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies, including AI, to guide strategic product direction.

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 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 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 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.

Bentonville, Arkansas US-30011: The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00

Sunnyvale, California US-11656: The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 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 9 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 11 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 8 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.

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

Primary Location...

806 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, 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.