Walmart

(USA) Principal, Product Manager

Walmart$110K — $220K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or related area, with 9 years in product management, or 11 years of relevant experience
  • Strong experience managing product roadmaps associated with multiple products
  • Proven expertise in data-driven decision making and advanced analytics
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and cross-team influence skills
  • Deep understanding of customer needs through methodologies like design thinking and journey mapping
  • Ability to mentor junior product managers and promote best practices
  • Experience developing long-term product vision using Whole Product concepts

Responsibilities

  • Shape and drive product strategy across multiple related products
  • Own complex customer problems and assess product requirements
  • Develop and manage product roadmaps to ensure alignment with business goals
  • Establish mechanisms for gathering customer feedback and interpreting product usage data
  • Guide cross-functional teams in defining success metrics and validating outcomes
  • Influence stakeholder prioritization through customer insights and models
  • Mentor and promote best practices within the product management field

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) plan with company stock purchase options
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, parental leave, and more
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
  • Walmart-paid education benefit program for professional development
Full Job Description
Position Summary...

What you'll do...
Role summary:

The Principal, Product Manager leads product strategy across multiple related products, driving organization-wide decisions through deep expertise and data-driven insights. This role shapes long-term vision, manages complex customer problems, and oversees product roadmaps to ensure alignment with business goals. By influencing cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders, the position advances innovative solutions and scalable practices. The Principal Product Manager fosters a culture of analytical rigor, mentors peers, and ensures ethical, compliant delivery while continuously optimizing product value and organizational impact.
About the team:

The Long Lead-Time Buying (L2B) team develops Walmart's comprehensive buy planning and execution platform for seasonal and committed merchandise. Integrating AI-driven demand forecasting, buy quantification, allocation, and vendor constraint optimization, L2B streamlines workflows for merchants, planners, inventory, and vendor managers. This platform eliminates manual reconciliation by connecting forecasting to purchase order creation. Currently piloting in select departments, the team aims to scale across all long lead-time categories, significantly enhancing buying efficiency and performance at Walmart's scale through innovative product strategy, stakeholder collaboration, and data-driven decision making.
What you'll do:
  • Shape and drive product strategy across multiple related products, leveraging deep domain expertise and data-driven insights.
  • Own complex customer problems and product requirements, considering upstream and downstream impacts.
  • Develop and manage product roadmaps ensuring strategic alignment, technical feasibility, and resource prioritization.
  • Establish scalable mechanisms for gathering and interpreting customer feedback and product usage data.
  • Guide cross-functional teams in defining success metrics and validating product outcomes.
  • Influence enterprise prioritization through customer insights and opportunity-sizing models.
  • Mentor product managers and promote best practices across the product management discipline.

What you'll bring:
  • Proven expertise in defining and executing product strategy across multiple related products or large portfolios.
  • Strong experience in developing and managing product roadmaps aligned with business goals and technical feasibility.
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage data-driven decision making, advanced analytics, and experimentation to optimize product outcomes.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a track record of influencing senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Deep understanding of customer needs through design thinking, journey mapping, and process analysis.
  • Ability to mentor and elevate product management practices across teams.
  • Experience shaping long-term product vision using Whole Product concepts and competitive insights.


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








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...

1700 Se 5th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

About Walmart

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2,300 employees
Market Cap
$387 billion
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Net Income
$13.5 billion
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
Revenue
$559.1 billion
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