(USA) Principal, Product Manager - Localization

Principal, Product Manager – Localization

Walmart Global Product is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of our enterprise Localization & Translation Platform. This role sits within the Product Globalization team and will own the systems, AI-driven workflows, and platform capabilities that power localized experiences across Walmart's global digital ecosystem — including eCommerce, Marketplace, Supply Chain, and Associate tools.

This is a highly strategic, enterprise-level individual contributor role. You will define multi-year platform strategy, drive AI-enabled transformation of localization workflows, and influence senior leadership across multiple product and engineering organizations.

Experience in both AI/ML-powered systems and localization platforms is required.

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for Walmart's Localization & Translation Platform aligned to business objectives and global market launches.
• Establish enterprise standards for internationalization (i18n), localization (l10n), terminology governance, and AI-enabled translation systems.
• Translate business needs into scalable platform capabilities that support global expansion.

AI-Driven Localization Innovation

• Partner with Platform Engineering and Data Science teams to operationalize generative AI and machine translation (MT) models in production environments.
• Design and scale human-in-the-loop systems to balance translation quality, cost efficiency, and speed.
• Develop and implement AI evaluation frameworks to measure multilingual performance, including translation accuracy, fluency, cultural appropriateness, bias detection, and safety.
• Establish quality benchmarks using structured evaluation methodologies.
• Evaluate and optimize MT engines, domain-adapted AI models, LLM-based translation pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• Define multilingual readiness gates and launch criteria for AI-powered features.

Platform Execution & Delivery

• Lead cross-functional delivery across engineering, ML/AI, design, localization operations, QA, and vendor partners.
• Own TMS integrations, linguistic QA systems, terminology and MT tuning interfaces, localization analytics, and CI/CD integration for localized releases.
• Drive the full product lifecycle: discovery, requirements, prioritization, PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, release planning, and performance tracking.

Enterprise Influence & Governance

• Own stakeholder engagement across global product teams, marketing/content, legal/compliance, and vendor/LSP partners.
• Evangelize localization and internationalization best practices across product organizations.
• Develop evaluation, instrumentation, and experimentation frameworks to continuously optimize cost, quality, and delivery velocity across markets.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of Product Management experience.
• 3+ years in platform or infrastructure product roles.
• 3+ years directly owning localization, globalization, or translation systems.
• Proven experience shipping AI/ML-enabled products in production.
• Deep familiarity with: Translation Management Systems (TMS), Machine Translation engines (Google, DeepL, Microsoft, custom), LLM-based translation workflows, Human-in-the-loop systems, Internationalization engineering patterns, Experience influencing Director+ and VP+ stakeholders across organizations, Demonstrated experience building enterprise roadmaps and securing executive buy-in.
• Strong technical fluency (AI/ML, APIs, pipelines, experimentation, automation).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling localization in large consumer tech or enterprise companies.
• Experience implementing domain-adapted MT or custom LLM translation pipelines.
• Fluency in Spanish or French (or another major global language).
• Experience managing vendor ecosystems and global LSP partnerships.

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 $143,000.00 - $286,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: Stock

Primary Location: 815 Eleventh Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America

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