Distinguished, Platform Product Manager

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA +2

Product Manager for Cloud, Data, and AI Platforms at Walmart, focusing on architecting, building, and scaling infrastructure for enterprise-wide data and AI capabilities. The role involves leading cross-functional teams, translating user needs into roadmaps, enhancing developer experience, and ensuring platform scalability, availability, and performance. Requires expertise in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and/or AI/ML systems, with a strong emphasis on product management practices and collaboration across engineering, product, and business teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform solutions that empower developers and application teams globally.
  2. Translate user needs into a strategic product roadmap, prioritizing features that drive measurable business value.
  3. Enhance developer experience and streamline adoption through continuous product innovation and operational excellence.
  4. Evolve platform capabilities to meet changing demands, with a focus on scalability, availability, and performance.
  5. Define and track key metrics to guide investment decisions and maximize ROI.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in engineering, support, and product development
  • strong technical and consulting expertise
  • Proven ability to build and lead high-performing product teams focused on multi-cloud platforms
  • Expertise in managing product cost, utilization, and efficiency at global scale
  • Experience engaging senior leaders to define strategy and set priorities for world-class services
  • Demonstrated success in fostering global collaboration to meet diverse customer needs
  • Strong technical acumen with the ability to influence product design and provide strategic direction
  • Customer-focused mindset with a talent for translating needs into impactful product solutions
  • Experience building resilient, scalable platforms using cloud-native architectures
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of delivering results in fast-paced, distributed environments
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills

Nice to have

  • cloud infrastructure
  • data platforms
  • AI/ML systems
  • distributed systems
  • data governance
  • platform architecture

What the JD emphasized

  • architect, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers enterprise-wide data and AI capabilities
  • build and lead high-performing product teams focused on multi-cloud platforms
  • managing product cost, utilization, and efficiency at global scale
  • building resilient, scalable platforms using cloud-native architectures

Other signals

  • powers enterprise-wide data and AI capabilities
  • enable product and engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate data-driven solutions efficiently
  • supporting data ingestion, processing, and AI/ML workloads
  • platform capabilities align with business and technical needs
  • strategic planning, roadmap execution, and driving operational excellence
  • experience in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and/or AI/ML systems
  • understand distributed systems, data governance, and/or platform architecture
  • proven ability to work across engineering, product, and business teams
  • build and lead high-performing product teams focused on multi-cloud platforms
  • managing product cost, utilization, and efficiency at global scale
  • technical acumen with the ability to influence product design and provide strategic direction
  • building resilient, scalable platforms using cloud-native architectures