Principal, Product Manager, Risk Decision Platform

Walmart; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and stock purchase program

Paid time off (PTO)

Education benefits (Live Better U)

Employee discounts

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Principal Product Manager to define the vision and architecture for a scalable Risk Decision Platform used across seller onboarding, lifecycle risk, fraud, compliance, item integrity, and enforcement.

You will lead design of decision orchestration combining ML models, risk signals, and rules, enabling real-time risk decisions and governance across Walmart Marketplace.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience building and scaling Risk Decision Platforms.
• Deep expertise in decision engines, strategy/rules management, decision orchestration, and real-time risk decisioning.
• Experience integrating ML models, risk scores, rules, policies, and third-party signals into production decision flows.
• Strong understanding of strategy authoring, simulation, champion-challenger testing, experimentation, governance, and decision observability.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year product vision and architecture for a scalable, enterprise Risk Decision Platform.
• Build decision orchestration capabilities combining ML models, risk signals, rules, policies, and downstream actions.
• Design configurable strategy authoring that enables risk teams to build and modify complex decision logic.
• Build simulation, champion-challenger testing, experimentation, versioning, approvals, rollback, and auditability.
• Establish observability for decision accuracy, false positives, coverage, latency, strategy performance, and business impact.
• Advance AI-powered capabilities for strategy creation, optimization, and decision intelligence.
• Define platform standards and reusable capabilities across risk domains.
• Influence Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Compliance, and Operations leaders.

Skills

Decision engines

Rules management

Decision orchestration

APIs

Event-driven architecture

Data platforms

ML systems

Platform strategy

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

ML integration

Job description

Position Summary…

What you’ll do…

Role summary:
Walmart Marketplace is seeking a Principal Product Manager with deep experience building and scaling Risk Decision Platforms. You will define the vision and strategy for the platform that powers risk decisions across the seller and item lifecycle, bringing together machine learning models, risk signals, rules, policies, and workflows to enable accurate, real-time decisions. This highly strategic individual contributor role sits at the intersection of platform, AI/ML, and risk. You will shape the architecture and capabilities needed to evaluate risk, orchestrate decisions and actions, and enable risk teams to rapidly configure and optimize strategies as threats and business needs evolve.
About the team:
Marketplace Trust builds the products, platforms, and intelligence that protect the integrity of Walmart Marketplace. We determine who can sell, continuously evaluate seller and item risk, identify emerging threats, and enable appropriate actions when risk is detected. Our Risk Decision Platform provides the foundational decisioning layer across seller onboarding, lifecycle risk, fraud, compliance, item integrity, and enforcement. It brings together models, signals, rules, policies, and workflows to make consistent risk decisions at scale. We are evolving this foundation into a modern, configurable platform that enables faster strategy deployment, experimentation, explainability, governance, and continuous optimization of risk decisions globally.
What you’ll do:

• Define the multi-year product vision and architecture for a scalable, enterprise Risk Decision Platform.
• Build decision orchestration capabilities combining ML models, risk signals, rules, policies, and downstream actions.
• Design configurable strategy authoring that enables risk teams to build and modify complex decision logic.
• Build simulation, champion-challenger testing, experimentation, versioning, approvals, rollback, and auditability.
• Establish observability for decision accuracy, false positives, coverage, latency, strategy performance, and business impact.
• Advance AI-powered capabilities for strategy creation, optimization, and decision intelligence.
• Define platform standards and reusable capabilities across risk domains.
• Influence Product, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Compliance, and Operations leaders.

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of product management experience, including significant experience building and scaling Risk Decision Platforms.
• Deep expertise in decision engines, strategy/rules management, decision orchestration, and real-time risk decisioning.
• Experience integrating ML models, risk scores, rules, policies, and third-party signals into production decision flows.
• Strong understanding of strategy authoring, simulation, champion-challenger testing, experimentation, governance, and decision observability.
• Experience building self-service platforms used by risk, fraud, or compliance teams to manage decision strategies.
• Strong technical fluency across APIs, event-driven architecture, data platforms, and ML systems.
• Demonstrated ability to define platform strategy and influence senior technical and business leaders.

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

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.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 8 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…

1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, 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.