Senior Manager, Product Management, Data
Walmart
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About the Team
If you love enabling data solutions that can scale, have a strong customer mindset, love taking ownership of business challenges, enjoy continually learning and working in a cross functional collaborative environment with people who care about you and support you, we would love to have you on our team.
We are seeking a highly skilled, professional Data product manager to join our dynamic and growing team. As part of the data enablement organization, this role will be a crucial enabler of our digital transformation strategy. You will work collaboratively with business stakeholders, data stewards (data managers), scrum masters, program management, and engineering teams to ensure on-time delivery of Data assets/ strategic projects with quality results.
This role will report to the Director for Data Product and Strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Drives the development and management the implementation of the Data product development roadmap based on knowledge of business and data strategy.
Plans and coordinates development of data assets, strategic initiatives, and ensures integration into roadmap based on knowledge of short-and longer-term needs of a single data category.
Drives collaboration with cross-functional teams to gather inputs and requirements. Consultants, educates and influences the data journey across the organization.
Executes product development within a moderate to complex category, ensuring achievement of data product development objectives and identifying and prioritizing tradeoffs across data product development initiatives.
Drives the execution of business plans and projects to meet customers and operational needs; communicating business plans and priorities; reporting on barriers and obstacles that impact performance.
Job Competencies
Driving Customer/Client Needs: Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations. 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.
Data Product Vision & Strategy: Owns a customer problem and/or product requirements/needs. Assists in building new ideas/products. Explores new areas for value creation and develops a long-term vision. Articulates problem statements and hypotheses and guides team towards prototypes. Effectively communicates product strategy and vision.
Product Roadmap & Development: Builds a product roadmap with proper phasing. Communicates with cross functional partners and stakeholders. Builds stakeholder alignment. Independently manages backlog/priority tradeoff decisions and communications. Manages product/feature rollouts and scaling and iteratively optimizes the product.
Data Driven Product Decisions: Independently conducts activities for product/feature analytics. Monitors, collects, and structures data and evaluates results. Assist in the planning, design, and implementation of exploratory data analysis.
Influencing & Building Stakeholder Consensus: Communicates in stakeholder meetings involving multiple teams. Conveys complex information and addresses ambiguity for robust data asset 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.
Technology Orientation: Demonstrates a basic understanding of privacy & security policies and process. Owns business and user acceptance for products/features. Independently represents data requirements and drives data design outcomes. Demonstrates an understanding of data architecture, services involved, and database and cloud technologies used. Drives informed discussions with engineering teams and stakeholders to assess feasibility and risks and prioritize efforts, features and capabilities.
Domain Expertise: Identifies areas of innovation across the subdomains, shares innovations with the leadership team and drives initiatives. Recommends new processes, automation opportunities and ways of working for subdomains. Consultatively influences and recommends new processes, automation opportunities and ways of working.
You’ll sweep us off our feet if…
You’re curious, always looking for new opportunities to up our game and are customer obsessed
You’re a great communicator, able to articulate your insights and findings to various levels of the organization
You have a deep interest and passion helping teams consultatively and with agility identify, map, and deliver transformative value adding data solutions.
You are creative and resilient – always looking for new ways to enable teams to improve and deliver value continuously.
You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making, and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities.
You have knowledge and working experience in cloud and data technologies: GIT, SQL, Spark, Druid, Hive, Hadoop, Teradata, GCP and BigQuery
You have strong experience and have working experience of technologies for Analytics, AI, Business Intelligence, Visualization, and Reporting E.g. Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, Python, etc.
Product Management Certification or Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) is always a plus.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in business, Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field and 3 years’ experience in data analytics, project management, business, or related area OR 5 years’ experience in data analytics, project or product management, business analysis, or related area.
Capable of managing multiple stakeholders, anticipating their needs, and gaining alignment for strategies from executive level stakeholders
Strong communication skills (oral, verbal, and listening) as well as the ability to influence key decision-makers and understand their points of view
Strong leadership, negotiation, and execution skills with the ability to drive results, deliver and excel, and own it when you don’t
Comfortable in a fast-paced, growing environment and work well with ambiguity
Proven ability to drive results, especially in a matrixed or influence based environment
Understands, describes, and navigates existing work and makes recommendations with a clear sense of organizational impact
Experience in practicing agile methodologies – Scrum, Kanban
Proficiency in using tools such as Jira Board, Confluence, Roadmap Tools
Technical experience in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, AI, and Reporting domains
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 $110,000.00-$220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 9 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 11 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.
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