(USA) Principal, Product Manager

Job Posting Title: (USA) Principal, Product Manager Additional Description: (empty) Job Posting Description: Position Summary... What you'll do... A recognized product authority who shapes product strategy across multiple related products or a sizable product area. Drives organization-level decisions through deep domain expertise, data-driven insight, and cross-functional influence. Owns complex customer problems and product requir ments including upstream and downstream impacts. Builds new ideas and strategies using Whole Product concepts. Sets best practices for the product management discipline and elevates the technical/strategic bar across PM peers. Equivalent in scope and impact to Senior Manager, Product Management on the People Leader track; represents the upper expression of Level G — broader portfolio influence, more strategic ambiguity, and deeper organizational impact than Staff PM. Customer & Problem Understanding: Builds deep, proprietary insights into customer and business needs using design thinking, journey mapping, and process analysis across multiple related products. Establishes scalable mechanisms for gathering and interpreting customer feedback and product usage data; transforms insights into prioritized, measurable problem statements at portfolio scale. Guides teams in defining success metrics, ensuring alignment to customer outcomes and informing multi-layered validation across product, problem, and user dimensions. Influences enterprise prioritization through proprietary customer insights and opportunity-sizing models. Product Vision & Strategy: Defines and evolves industry-leading product strategies by leveraging business, technology, and domain expertise to identify market opportunities and shape multi-pillar initiatives. Frames complex problem spaces using hypothesis-driven approaches, Whole-Product thinking, and cross-domain insights to guide long-term product direction. Promotes strategic vision across senior stakeholders by crafting compelling narratives grounded in competitive insights, user needs, and enterprise priorities. Shapes build / buy / partner strategy at portfolio level; creates reusable platforms or partnerships adopted broadly. Product Lifecycle Leadership: Develops and manages roadmaps spanning multiple related products, ensuring strategic alignment, technical feasibility, and resource prioritization. Oversees MVP creation, rollout planning, and scalable launch execution; guides risk mitigation, dependency management, and long-term product evolution. Strengthens product management practices by reviewing development methodologies, formalizing expectations, and promoting ethical and compliant delivery. Owns value realization post-launch; establishes telemetry standards and optimization rhythms for the product area. Data, AI & Insight-Driven Decisions: Drives organization-level decision frameworks by guiding advanced analytics, data extraction, and insight synthesis to support objective product decisions. Applies modern data tools, feature analytics, and experimentation methods to validate assumptions and optimize strategic prioritization. Assesses emerging technology and AI opportunities by analyzing feasibility, risks, and architectural implications to inform long-term product direction. Creates a culture of data fluency across product teams; establishes standards for experimentation rigor and insight communication. Enterprise Influence & Domain Leadership: Leads complex cross-functional dialogue using data-backed storytelling, emotional intelligence, and coordination skills to influence executive decisions. Advances domain innovation by monitoring industry trends, identifying areas for automation and new processes, and guiding adoption across teams. Serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on product and technology matters across the area. Mentors product managers at all levels; contributes to organizational capability building through strategic coaching and talent development. Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in workplace. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. Key Skills: Product Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Stakeholder Management, Data-Driven Decision Making Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; 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; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members. Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments. 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 making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving). Act with Integrity: Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and sets expectations for others to do the same; promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates. takes action and encourages others to do the same; holds self and others 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, honest, and transparent. Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer/member first and consistently applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts 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 shaping the team’s strategy. Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions, fosters an environment that supports learning, innovation, and learning from mistakes, and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks. Strive for Excellence: Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working. 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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 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 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... 802 Respect 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. Minimum Pay: 110000 Maximum Pay: 220000 Pay Frequency: Annual City: BENTONVILLE State: AR Country: United States Job Area: : [Corporate] Job Category: : [Product Management] Management Level: G Job Family: Product Management Shift: Weekday Day Shift: Weekend Day Employment Type: Full time Brand: Walmart