Senior Manager - Product Management

Senior Manager – Product Management

Job Location: 10900 NE 4th Street, Floor 8, Bellevue, WA 98004

Duties:

• Demonstrate an understanding of InfoSec policies and process.
• Owns business and user acceptance testing for simple products/features.
• Independently represents technology requirements and drives 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.
• 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 tradeoff decisions and communications.
• Manages product/feature rollouts and scaling (using an MVP approach) and iteratively optimizes the product.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrates awareness of various principles, ways of working, and subdomain specific terminologies across multiple subdomains within a domain.
• Compares the maturity of products, services, and processes across subdomains with others in the industry.
• Identifies areas of innovation across the subdomains, share potential innovations with the leadership team, and drive initiatives.
• Recommends new processes, automation opportunities, and ways of working for subdomains.
• Supervises 4 associates: Staff Product Manager (2) and Senior Product Manager (2).

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related area and 7 years of experience in product management; OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business administration, computer science, engineering, or related area and 9 years of experience in product management.

Skills required: Experience with understanding customer needs and driving end-to-end product requirements across multiple technology teams. Experience performing SWOT analysis. Experience conducting market sensitivity analysis. Experience writing technical product requirements. Experience with proficiency in querying and analyzing data. Experience with defining product lifecycle and roadmap. Experience using data and SWOT analysis for prioritization. Experience defining and measuring product performance metrics. Experience with Stakeholder management. Experience defining and articulating a compelling product vision and strategy for the retail platform, ensuring alignment with the company's overall mission and goals. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Salary Range: $196,914/year to $264,000/year. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Benefits: At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

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.com.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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.