(USA) Distinguished, Product Manager

Position Summary...

What you'll do...The most senior IC product role in the organization. Drives enterprise-wide product strategy, shapes organizational capability, and influences Walmart's competitive positioning through pioneering product thinking. Owns multiple complex customer problems and product lines by integrating market trends, competitive dynamics, customer segments, and business strategies. Creates strategic frameworks including Whole Product concepts and go-to-market approaches that drive mass adoption and enterprise value creation. Equivalent in scope and impact to Director, Product Management on the People Leader track.
Customer & Problem Leadership:
Drives a culture of deep customer understanding across the enterprise using design thinking, journey mapping, and process optimization to uncover complex problems across multiple domains.
Establishes mechanisms and standards that enable the organization to consistently identify, validate, and prioritize unmet needs at enterprise scale.
Shapes enterprise product priorities through proprietary customer intelligence, forward-looking market analysis, and structured opportunity-sizing frameworks.
Product Vision & Strategy:
Owns the long-term vision and strategy for multiple complex customer problems and product lines by integrating market trends, competitive dynamics, customer segments, and business strategies.
Creates strategic frameworks—including Whole Product concepts, go-to-market approaches, and validation guidelines at product, problem, and user levels—to drive mass adoption and enterprise value creation.
Sets the strategic direction that influences adjacent product families, platform investments, and organizational capability priorities.
Shapes Walmart's external product narrative through industry engagement, thought leadership, and competitive positioning.
Product Lifecycle & Execution Governance:
Leads roadmaps for multiple complex products or product families, aligning with overall business strategy, addressing external and market constraints, and ensuring compliance and ethical standards.
Oversees MVP design, rollout, and scaling processes; updates product management practices to clarify expectations and improve consistency across the enterprise.
Establishes product operating rhythms, governance frameworks, and quality standards adopted organization-wide.
Data, AI & Technology Direction:
Guides advanced analytics and data-driven decisions by defining expectations for insight extraction, selecting tools and techniques, and driving product analytics that influence major enterprise decisions.
Leads adoption of emerging technologies and architectural choices by assessing technology landscapes, forecasting trends, and collaborating with engineering to manage technical debt and risk.
Champions responsible AI adoption across the product portfolio; assesses feasibility, risk, and ethical implications of AI-powered product capabilities.
Enterprise Influence & Organizational Impact:
Influences C-suite and senior stakeholders across functions using fact-based narratives, emotional intelligence, and strong communication to align on complex, ambiguous decisions.
Provides enterprise-level domain leadership by identifying innovation opportunities, guiding new processes and automation, and mentoring others to build long-term capability.
Shapes the product management discipline at Walmart; defines best practices, career frameworks, and competency standards adopted across the organization.
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. 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.
Bellevue, Washington US-11663: The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $312,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-30008: 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 :
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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.

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

Primary Location...

10900 Ne 4th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of AmericaWalmart 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.