Senior Manager, Technology Operations, Search, Structured Data.

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Sunnyvale, CA +1

Senior Manager, Technology Operations, Search, Structured Data at Walmart. This role focuses on enhancing structured data that powers Walmart's online search and navigation experiences. Responsibilities include partnering with business, product, and engineering teams to improve structured data quality, design, and governance, leading end-to-end problem solving, and aligning with cross-functional partners to deliver scalable solutions. The role requires strategic thinking, hands-on execution, and strong cross-functional partnerships to improve customer discovery and product finding.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner and align with Engineering, Data Science, Site Merchandising, and Product to develop and implement cohesive, measurable projects to clean and maintain the navigation taxonomy.
  2. Network across the organization (e.g. Search, Marketplaces, Site Merch, Order fulfillment, etc) to understand business opportunities (e.g. Catalog quality, Data Design Improvements etc) and create opportunity assessments to help prioritize efforts and solutions
  3. Create compelling narratives around business/customer objectives that can be used to drive support and alignment across the organization. Partner with business, product, design and engineering to create Annual and Quarterly strategies and priorities. Set up processes, meetings and cadences to ensure deep alignment within Search and with the rest of the company
  4. Own the process of defining our key operating metrics, setting goals and tracking progress. Track progress and drive the teams to create plans to ensure goals are met.
  5. Partner with Product, Engineering and Business leads across the organization to solve intricate search problems, ensuring a customer-centric approach in execution.

Skills

Required

  • 6 years’ experience direct experience in taxonomy, ontology and/or information architecture design and implementation & ability to articulate how your designs solved business problems
  • 3 years’ experience in business/product management of technically complex products.
  • Direct experience driving big, impactful end-to-end structured data initiatives from front-end (customer experience) to back end (algorithms and infrastructure)

Nice to have

  • 3 years of experience in Retail / eCommerce Search preferred, bonus points for having worked in or with a 2-sided marketplace.
  • Direct experience working with vendors to help scale the creation and validation of structured data.
  • Creative growth mind set in using LLMs and Gen AI tools to help multiply yourself
  • Strong analytical expertise. Comfortable using data to glean insights. Experience creating operating metrics, setting goals, and holding teams accountable.
  • Strong technical background with a deep understanding of software development processes, methodologies, and experience contributing to designing technical architecture.
  • Adept at diving deep into search including algorithms and technical details.
  • Excellent user experience intuition and a laser-focused understanding as to how data design can be leveraged to delight our customers.
  • Outstanding business acumen, with experience of managing revenue objectives and driving revenue and customer growth via defining and delivering tailored customer experiences.

What the JD emphasized

  • structured data
  • taxonomy
  • information architecture
  • search
  • navigation