Distinguished, Product Manager - Associate AI

Walmart; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 338,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Parental leave

PTO

Health plans

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Walmart Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Distinguished Product Manager to steer the vision and enterprise strategy for our associate-facing AI and agent platform.

You will translate strategy into a road map that cross-functional teams can execute, shaping how conversational experiences come together across channels. You will lead with strong product judgment across orchestration, context, personalization, search, and governance, influencing executives and technical partners to deliver trusted

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area with 11+ years in product management.
• Ambiguity-to-roadmap capability for enterprise-scale problems.
• Experience shaping product strategy and platform models.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise product vision, strategy, and roadmap for associate-facing AI.
• Shape platform capabilities across orchestration, context, personalization, and governance.
• Define how agents work together across experiences balancing reuse and business needs.
• Establish measures for quality, trust, adoption, and business impact.
• Prioritize high-value use cases and guide build, buy, and partner decisions.
• Influence senior leaders across product, engineering, and security.
• Raise product standards through mentorship and strong judgement.

Skills

AI/ML

Agentic systems

Search

Personalization

Data

Developer ecosystems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Sunnyvale, CA

Multiple locations

R-2640713

Bellevue, WA: The pay range will be discussed during the hiring process

Bentonville, AR: The pay range will be discussed during the hiring process

Regular/ Permanent

Position Summary

As a Distinguished Product Manager at Walmart, you will set the product vision and enterprise strategy for our associate-facing AI and agent platform. You'll define how conversational and agentic experiences come together across channels and shape the platform capabilities needed for orchestration, personalization, context, quality, governance, and distribution. You will turn that strategy into a roadmap that teams across Walmart can build on, influencing senior leaders and technical partners while establishing the product direction and standards required to deliver trusted AI experiences at enterprise scale.

About the team

Our team is developing Walmart’s Associate AI-powered platform that streamlines how associates and managers complete their work. By integrating trusted knowledge, enterprise data, and specialized agents into a unified experience, we enable efficient access to accurate information and next steps without navigating multiple tools. The team leads product strategy for Associate AI and agent ecosystems, focusing on orchestration, search, context, quality, governance, and reusable platform capabilities. Collaborating across Walmart, we deliver high-impact use cases that enhance productivity and decision-making at scale, establishing a reliable foundation for Associate AI-driven solutions enterprise-wide.

What you'll do

• Define the enterprise product vision, strategy, and roadmap for associate-facing conversational and agentic AI.
• Shape platform capabilities across orchestration, context and memory, personalization, search and retrieval, distribution, quality, observability, access, and governance.
• Define how enterprise and domain-specific agents work together across experiences while balancing reuse with segment and business needs.
• Establish measures and mechanisms for quality, trust, adoption, and business impact.
• Prioritize the highest-value use cases and guide build, buy, and partner decisions.
• Influence senior Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Security, and business leaders across complex enterprise decisions.
• Raise the bar for AI product management through strong product judgment, standards, and mentorship.

What you'll bring

• Deep product leadership experience building and scaling complex enterprise platforms, across AI/ML, agentic systems, search, personalization, data, or developer ecosystems.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous, enterprise-scale problems and turn them into clear product strategy, platform model, and executable roadmaps.
• Strong technical fluency in modern AI products, including agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, context, and model-driven experiences.
• Experience driving platform adoption across multiple product, engineering, and business teams.
• Strong judgment across customer experience, platform reuse, quality, governance, risk, and business value.
• Exceptional ability to influence executives and deeply technical partners without relying on direct authority.
• A track record of mentoring senior product leaders and raising product standards

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

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.

Sunnyvale, California US-11789: The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00

Bellevue, Washington US-11663: The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $312,000.00

Bentonville, Arkansas US-30006: The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include: - Stock

Minimum Qualifications

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 13 years’ experience in product management or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, Supervisory experience, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture. Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location

809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America

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.

Walmart is 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.

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Benefits you’ll enjoy

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