(USA) Group Director, Product Management

Job Posting Title: (USA) Group Director, Product Management Job Posting Description: Position Summary... What you'll do... The most senior People Leader role in Product Management below VP. Governs the product portfolio across multiple complex product families, driving enterprise-level strategic alignment, financial performance, and organizational capability at scale. Defines long-term vision and product strategy by collaborating to develop corporate financial plans; identifying and facilitating disruptive innovation opportunities; approving business cases; prioritizing and allocating resources. Accountable for multi-year product strategy, executive alignment, and building a world-class product management organization. Portfolio Strategy & Vision Leadership: Defines long-term product vision and strategy for multiple complex product families by integrating business objectives, customer needs, market conditions, and competitive trends. Establishes strategic priorities, financial plans, and multi-year product objectives by synthesizing insights from customer behavior, operational data, and enterprise priorities. Approves business cases, resource allocation frameworks, and success metrics for major initiatives across the portfolio. Shapes Walmart's competitive product positioning through market intelligence, innovation pipeline management, and strategic partnerships. Product Portfolio Governance & Execution: Oversees end-to-end portfolio development by guiding Directors and Senior Managers on roadmap creation, dependency management, and technology integration. Evaluates risks, architectural decisions, and downstream impacts to ensure feasibility and alignment to long-term enterprise strategy. Drives the product discovery process to improve product success; creates guidelines for validation at different levels (product, problem, user). Reviews and updates PM processes to formalize expectations; oversees MVP and final product rollout and scaling processes. Cross-Functional & Executive Alignment: Builds and maintains strategic relationships with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business units by communicating strategic choices and tradeoffs. Aligns C-suite and executive leaders on prioritization decisions, customer needs, and investment direction through data-driven narratives and strategic reviews. Drives coordination across product families to ensure interoperability, scalable platform thinking, and shared success metrics. Presents to leadership and organization-wide audiences, positioning arguments/data with well-structured stories; builds consensus in sensitive situations. Organizational Leadership & Capability Building: Develops a world-class product organization by diagnosing capability gaps, leading talent planning, and enabling succession readiness at all levels. Coaches Directors and Senior Managers in product strategy, execution rigor, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional leadership. Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, ethical decision-making, and adherence to company standards and values. Shapes the product management discipline, career framework, and competency standards for the enterprise. Data, AI & Insight-Driven Decision Making: Advances adoption of AI-powered product development practices, ensuring teams understand feasibility, risks, and customer value impacts. Champions insight extraction and experimentation frameworks to drive evidence-based prioritization and optimize portfolio outcomes. Drives responsible AI governance across the product portfolio; ensures ethical standards and risk mitigation in AI-powered capabilities. Leads adoption of new and emerging technologies; assesses market to selectively adopt technologies and drive innovation. 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 leverages 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, Leadership, Product Management, Product Roadmaps, Influencing Skills 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, diverse 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 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. The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00 - $370,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include : - Stock ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ‎ 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. Option 2: 17 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 14 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... 1601 SE 10th St, 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. Minimum Pay: 195000 Maximum Pay: 370000 Pay Frequency: Annual City: BENTONVILLE State: AR Country: United States Job Area: : [Corporate] Job Category: : [Product Management] Management Level: D Job Family: Product Management Shift: Weekday Day Shift: Weekend Day Employment Type: Full time Brand: Walmart