Staff Product Manager
Walmart

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Position: Staff Product Manager

Job Location: 702 SW 8th St, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: 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. 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. Technology Orientation: Demonstrate an understanding of InfoSec policies and process. Owns business and user acceptance testing for simple products/features. Independently represents technology requirements and drive technology design outcomes. Demonstrates an understanding of product architecture, services involved, and the database and cloud technologies used. Leverages knowledge of competitor products/services for assigned products. Drives informed discussions with engineering teams and stakeholders to assess feasibility and risks and prioritize efforts, features, and capabilities. Product Roadmap and Development: Build and own a simple product roadmap with proper phasing. Communicates with cross-functional partners and stakeholders. Explores alternative avenues to identify resources while navigating through organizational constraints and dependencies. Builds stakeholder alignment. Independently (or with minimal guidance) manages backlog/priority trade-off decisions and communications. Manages product/feature rollouts and scaling (using an MVP approach) and iteratively optimizes the product. Driving Customer/ Client Needs: Research and verify customer needs and expectations. Delivers customer value within the parameters of profitability and other targets. Builds and maintains consistent customer connections and solicits customer feedback. Creates customer journeys and identifies customer touchpoints. Addresses gaps/risks in product experiences. Simplifies and improves processes to drive customer satisfaction. Product Vision and Strategy: Own a simple customer problem and/or product requirements/need. Assists in building new ideas/products. Explores new focus areas/unchartered areas for value creation leveraging first principles and develops a long-term vision. Articulates problem statements and hypotheses. Guides team members towards prototypes. Effectively communicates product strategy and vision and the unit economics of a product. Understand the need for "Go-to- Market" strategies and levers for user adoption. Data Driven Product Decisions: Independently (or with minimal guidance) conduct activities for product/feature analytics with an understanding of simple trends/insights. Monitors, collects, and structures data and evaluates result. Supports the identification and application of tools and techniques. Assists in the planning, design, and implementation of exploratory data analysis. Influencing and Building Stakeholder Consensus: Communicate in stakeholder meetings involving multiple teams. Conveys complex information and addresses ambiguity for robust technology development. Influences team members and stakeholders with sound recommendations. Independently prepares clear, concise, and logically structured reports/materials. Seeks and provides constructive feedback, anticipates needs/questions, and responds appropriately.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 4 years of experience in product management or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Performing quality assurance (QA) via JIRA, Appium, Microsoft team foundation server; Extracting data and doing data analysis by performing SQL querying; Designing and doing API testing with Postman and Selenium; Risk assessment and making trade-off decision for product feature prioritization; Physical retail and ecommerce coupled with quality assurance and product management; Creating user flow diagram via data modelling tool like Lucid chart, draw.io and IBM; Presenting technical needs and business outcomes to business executives; Supporting offshore development team and vendors; Reviewing technical architecture to do gap analysis; Dashboarding and data analysis in Tableau and advanced Microsoft Excel functions; Documenting technical and business requirements using confluence; Using waterfall and agile methodology to deliver initiative; Creating feature and initiative roadmap in Microsoft Project Professional; and Managing stakeholders from various cross-functional team to make decision and drive the right outcome. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.

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