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Position Summary…
What you’ll do…
About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists, and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption.
The Developer Productivity – Product Management team, which is part of the Global Technology Platform, is chartered to accelerate engineering teams by providing an immersive developer experience to reduce cycle time for product development . The team is responsible for automating the entire software development lifecycle process – from planning, development, provisioning, deployment, and management – by building a unified platform that integrates tools and processes. The Product Manager for Contributor Experiences will primarily focus on creating optimal experiences that enable the developer community to easily contribute to the platform. This includes contributions such as documentation, app integrations, SDKs, APIs, blog posts, user feedback/reviews, and inner sourcing.
Key responsibilities for this role:
- Be the user advocate in defining gaps in all stages of the development lifecycle (Plan, Develop, Provision, Deploy, Manage)
- Identify and map user journey for key pain points, collaborating with Technical Content Writer and UX Design teams to build standardized patterns/guides for internal Walmart developers.
- Define the content management and moderation strategy and lead Engineering to launch new products from 0 to 1.
- Create an engaging environment by incorporating Gamification capabilities and rewards system based on user contributions.
- Drive internal competitions to increase overall contributions.
- Define new solutions to unify the Developer Platform user experiences and enforce quality standards.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Developing and enhancing products – you will manage product roadmaps, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data, turn customer insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risks
- Defining vision and strategies for your product family, using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, identifying market opportunities, building business cases, and approving objectives
- Crafting and developing solutions to large business challenges – communicate business and customer needs to key partners to implement products and timelines
- Driving business plans and projects by identifying the customer and operational needs of the product
- Building a team environment by selecting, training, and mentoring
- Evaluating the effectiveness of your products and initiatives to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness with participating stakeholders
You’ll sweep us off our feet if…
- You’re able to use metrics to improve performance
- You have a proven ability to navigate and resolve complex and ambiguous problems
- You’re customer-centric in spirit and in execution
- You’re comfortable influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, and communicating clearly
- You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your product
- You have proven skills at negotiating and influencing leadership and cross-functional teams
- You have a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects: work prioritization, planning, task delegation and hitting deadlines
- You have a demonstrated ability to understand and discuss strategic business concepts, manage trade-offs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas
- You have skills in tracking and reporting on product launch metrics, utilizing feedback to drive associated actions and product iteration, as well as experience contributing to post-launch reviews and driving incorporation of feedback in future product releases
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Understanding of business metrics and the ability to translate company goals and objectives into requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Product Management or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Experience in working in technology organizations, Cloud platforms, and/or with the developer community
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, 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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .
The annual salary range for this position is $120,000.00-$170,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
– Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
– Stock equity incentives
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 3 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 5 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 2 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products
Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science
Primary Location… 640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
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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