Lead, Data Analytics — Search Product

Walmart; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and stock purchase

Paid time off

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Principal Analyst, Search Product in Sunnyvale, CA to partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design and Business teams. You will own analytics across query understanding, retrieval, ranking and UI/UX to drive product improvements.

Responsibilities include defining search health metrics, sizing opportunities, and designing robust experiments to guide decisions. Strong SQL/Python skills and experience with large-scale data are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree plus relevant data analytics experience as described in the minimum qualifications.
• Experience in driving analyses that influence product decisions and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics across the end-to-end Search product experience, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, personalization, and UI/UX.
• Define and evolve search health metrics to measure customer experience, relevance, and business impact.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses and opportunity sizing to identify high-impact product improvements and influence roadmap priorities.
• Design, execute, and interpret rigorous experiments (A/B, multivariate, Bayesian, and quasi-experimental) to evaluate product changes and guide launch decisions.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design to optimize search performance and customer outcomes.
• Build scalable analytical frameworks and communicate data-driven recommendations that shape product strategy and raise analytical excellence.

Skills

SQL

Python

Experimentation

Stakeholder influence

Analytical storytelling

Data-driven decision-making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field

Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, IT or related field

6 years’ experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Spark

Scala

R

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Principal Analyst, Search Product in Sunnyvale, CA to partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design and Business teams. You will own analytics across query understanding, retrieval, ranking and UI/UX to drive product improvements.

Responsibilities include defining search health metrics, sizing opportunities, and designing robust experiments to guide decisions. Strong SQL/Python skills and experience with large-scale data are required.