Staff, Product Manager (CDI)

Walmart; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Walmart seeks a Staff Product Manager to lead the strategy and development of a Real-Time Event Platform, enhancing customer experiences and insights. The role focuses on translating business needs into scalable solutions while collaborating across various teams to drive impactful data products. The ideal candidate will have extensive product management experience, particularly in data platforms and event-driven architectures, ensuring compliance with privacy standards.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Performance-based bonuses

Comprehensive health benefits

Paid time off benefits

Qualifications

• 7 years’ experience in product management or 9 years in related area required.
• Experience working on consumer-facing, large-scale, complex B2B/C products valued.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of a Real-Time Event Platform for customer experiences and business insights.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Marketing to deliver data products.

Skills

Product management

Data platforms

Real-time systems

Event-driven architectures

Data governance

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area

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

Job description

Position Summary

We seek an experienced Staff Product Manager to own the strategy, development, and success of key initiatives focused on building and scaling our Real-Time Event Platform — a foundational capability for enabling real-time customer experiences, insights, and decisioning across Walmart.

What you'll do

• Drive the development and scaling of a Real-Time Event Platform that powers customer experiences, insights, and decision-making across Walmart.
• Translate complex business needs into scalable, event-driven platform requirements by serving as the key interface between engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Marketing, and Compliance teams to deliver real-time data products that generate measurable business value.
• Partner with internal teams such as Marketing, Connect, Personalization, Walmart Plus, and Identity to prioritize and accelerate adoption of real-time event capabilities for high-impact use cases.
• Lead initiatives to establish a robust infrastructure for ingesting, enriching, processing, and serving real-time event streams.
• Deliver APIs and services that provide millisecond access to actionable customer insights.
• Onboard high-value events from key source systems while ensuring data quality and governance.
• Build capabilities to unify events across online and in-store channels for a comprehensive view of customer behavior.
• Develop self-service tools that enable teams to discover and consume real-time events with minimal engineering support.
• Implement monitoring and observability systems to ensure platform reliability, low latency, and rapid issue resolution.
• Ensure compliance with privacy and security standards by working closely with Governance, Privacy, and Security teams.

What You'll Bring

• A strategic mindset with a proven ability to define and execute long-term product visions aligned with enterprise goals.
• Deep experience in product management, particularly in data platforms, real-time systems, or event-driven architectures.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to bridge the gap between engineering and business teams.
• A collaborative approach to working with cross-functional stakeholders and driving alignment across diverse teams.
• A passion for enabling real-time personalization, analytics, and decisioning at scale.
• A track record of delivering high-impact products that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and compliance in large-scale data environments.
• A proactive attitude toward problem-solving, continuous improvement, and innovation.

Walmart offers competitive pay, performance-based bonuses, and comprehensive benefits including health, financial, and paid time off benefits. For more details, see the links provided.

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 7 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 9 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 6 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products. 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.

Primary Location

640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America