Walmart Group Director Product Management - Cloud Data 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

841504221

What you'll do...

What you'll do:

You will lead the Product Platforms team to drive the product innovations, adoption, and solutions to the applications team and developers across the globe. The products’ portfolio involves developing products for Hybrid Multi-Cloud. The team will look through the spectrum of products and drive consistency and standardization, which are cost-effective and provide business value to Walmart.

• Translate application team needs into product roadmap from platform organization.
• Build and unify the Platform portfolio and look at the Platform as a product
• Improve the overall product excellence, developer, and application teams’ experience in product adoption and usage.
• Continuously innovate product capabilities based on the evolving application needs keeping scalability, availability, and high performance in mind.
• Measure and improve the critical business metrics to enhance ROI, the choice of build vs. buy, and adopting cutting technology products from the market.
• Provide Multi-Cloud Product Evangelism and Technology leadership and vision.
• Employ the best product management methodologies with a deep understanding of customers' requirements, customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow adoption, improve customer experience, and drive business growth.
• Provide high-level strategy and framework to apply across the products’ portfolio to evaluate, build, and manage the Products.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams, drive product roadmap, and deliver quick time-to-market by prioritizing the activities and product requirements.
• Act as the brand ambassador of all the Cloud & Data Platform portfolio products and drive adoption by providing solutions leveraging platform products across all Walmart segments.
• Build a strong relationship with Walmart's different business segments, provide consulting and adoption services throughout the application development life cycle.
• Provide the right architectural advice best practices in product adoption, help accelerate application development.
• Collaborate with the enterprise architecture team to build patterns and blueprints, which can be reused and deployed across different business segments.
• Evaluate overall performance by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data and metrics.
• Focus on generating intellectual property assets on operational support models, tools, and techniques implemented.

What you'll bring:

• Build, coach, and drive a high-performance Cloud and Data product team that fosters an environment of focusing on building Multi-cloud platform products for developers and applications teams that prioritizes features to maximize business value.​
• Think, design, and build high return on investment through continuous improvement of product features with a clear roadmap and drive the engineering and architecture priorities.​
• Provide a transparent and accurate total cost and utilization for each global product to manage consumption, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency.​
• Improve product adoption by creating a seamless Multi-Cloud and Data ecosystem.​
• Build, develop, and guide high-performing talent for the Product organization.
• Engage with leaders worldwide to build strategy and define priorities for the team to deliver the best services.
• Create a collaborative environment across geographies that deliver the best services to customers around the globe.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Provide supervision, mentoring, and development opportunities for associates, engineering managers, and technologists.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience in engineering, support, and cutting-edge product development space with excellent technology, consulting, and product knowledge
• Strong hands-on knowledge in technology & product leadership of conceptualizing, incubating, and building multi-cloud products in the tier 0/1 products like Azure, GCP, Databases, Streaming, Big Data, Machine Learning and Telemetry Systems in the Private/Public cloud and edge environments.
• Strong technical background with the capability of having a product design conversation with the engineering team and providing strategic thought leadership in shaping the product roadmap
• Ability to connect with customers, build empathy by being “in their shoes” to understand their needs and translate them into product requirements with a clear articulation of benefits.
• Experience in building large-scale high available, resilient platform products leveraging private and public clouds in cloud-native patterns that represent broad strategic initiatives
• Sound understanding of architecturally significant requirements and practices in the implementation of high availability, resilient, high performance, and scalable solutions
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and managing a team of high potential platform product managers
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate and drive the tough conversations in influencing the product adoption​​
• A proven ability to manage ambiguity and preparedness to get things done
• Experience working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment in managing technology-intensive, time-sensitive, geographically dispersed product support organizations across multiple locations and multiple domains.
• Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. They thrive in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, start-up-like environment.
• Should have deep interest and passion for technology
• Should be enthusiastic and excited about cloud computing and its impact on solving business problems at scale
• Should have strong problem solving, analytical, decision-making, communication, and interpersonal skills and should be a team player
• Should have strong people and relationship skills to build long-lasting relationships with Walmart business and technology teams

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.

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.

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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.

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Hoboken, New Jersey US-10649/Bellevue, Washington US-11075:The annual salary range for this position is $234,000.00-$444,000.00 Sunnyvale, California US-04396:The annual salary range for this position is $254,000.00-$481,000.00 Bentonville, Arkansas US-10424: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 Minimum Qualifications...

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 15 years’ experience in product management or related experience at a technology and data-driven company focused on building products with new and emerging technologies.Option 2: 17 years’ experience in product management or related experience at a technology and data-driven company focused on building products with new and emerging technologies. Preferred Qualifications...

Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, business administration or related area and 14 years’ experience in back-end platform or highly complex B2B/C products or experience in roles requiring data-driven decision making and quantitative analysis skills (including deep knowledge of Excel, SQL, or statistics), Supervisory experience Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science
840 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America