Senior Data Science Manager - AI Strategy & Automation

Walmart Inc.; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision and dental coverage

401(k) and stock purchase plans

PTO and family leave benefits

Live Better U education program

On-site campus amenities

Job summary

Walmart Inc. in Bentonville, AR seeks a Senior Manager, Data Science - AI Strategy to own the Spark Earnings Excellence AI and automation roadmap. You will identify high-impact automation opportunities and apply AI/ML to earnings analyses, partnering with business and tech teams for production-ready solutions.

The role bridges business users and technical teams, embedding AI across the team’s work while guiding governance, scalability, and enterprise adoption.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data science, analytics, or ML with leadership experience
• Proven record shipping ML and GenAI solutions with measurable business impact
• Deep expertise in statistical modeling, ML, anomaly detection, experimentation

Responsibilities

• Set and own multi-year AI and automation vision across Spark Earnings Excellence pillars
• Architect scalable data, platform, and governance foundations enabling enterprise-scale AI
• Ship agentic AI for use cases like payment validation, defect root-cause analysis, reconciliation
• Drive portfolio prioritization through rigorous business cases balancing impact, effort and risk
• Lead cross-functional engineering, data science, and platform teams from concept to production
• Raisethebar on responsible AI with Legal, Compliance, and InfoSec including evaluations and drift monitoring
• Scale AI fluency and change management; communicate impact to executives

Skills

Data science leadership

Python

SQL

ML frameworks

GenAI/AI systems

Experimentation

Communication to executives

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in quantitative field

Tools

Python

Spark

Job description

Walmart Inc. in Bentonville, AR seeks a Senior Manager, Data Science - AI Strategy to own the Spark Earnings Excellence AI and automation roadmap. You will identify high-impact automation opportunities and apply AI/ML to earnings analyses, partnering with business and tech teams for production-ready solutions.

The role bridges business users and technical teams, embedding AI across the team’s work while guiding governance, scalability, and enterprise adoption.