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Senior Product Manager, Tech, Sponsored Search

About the Team

As a part of Sponsored Search Ads Product team, you’ll build industry defining ad platforms at scale that enable Walmart suppliers and sellers to reach shoppers with relevant ads and high performing campaigns while helping shoppers discover products to enhance their shopping journey.

If you are motivated by complex, purposeful challenges, this role at Walmart Connect could be the fit you’ve been looking for. We are looking for Senior Product Manager for the Sponsored Search Ads Platform to help reimagine the way advertisers create, optimize and report on their advertising campaigns, enabling them to achieve optimum performance in line with their marketing objectives. 

The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in defining the vision for the future of Sponsored Search Ads for, fleshing out the roadmap and driving 0‑to‑1 product launches, in collaboration with a cross-functional team including Engineering, UX Design, Product Analytics, Product Marketing, Research, Marketplace and others. They will develop elegant, well thought-out product solutions to address advertiser pain points and anticipate their needs, across campaign management, reporting and optimization.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…

• You have solid knowledge and experience in Digital or Retail Media Advertising (Paid Search, Sponsored Products), or in building GenAI products
• You’re excited about solving complex, ambiguous, open-ended challenges
• You’re comfortable influencing others without authority, managing cross-functional stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly and effectively
• You balance business needs with customer needs and pain points to craft strategy to increase demand and impact of your products
• You are resourceful, disciplined for execution, and have a can-do attitude
• You like digging into quantitative and qualitative data and using metrics to assess and improve the performance of your products
• You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your products

You’ll make an impact by:

• Developing the vision, strategy and roadmap for your products, leveraging your domain expertise, user research and analytics, focusing on capturing top opportunities
• Providing thought leadership to develop elegant product solutions, addressing top advertiser needs and pain points
• Rallying cross-functional stakeholders – including Engineering, UX Design, Product Marketing, Product Analytics – behind your vision, influencing without authority and gaining commitment from key partners to deliver on your roadmap
• Driving product lifecycle, including ideation, consumer research, competitive intelligence, quantitative analysis, requirements definition, target setting, technical specifications, development, testing, and post-launch efforts
• Leading conversations with Engineering on solution design, UX Design on user experience, Product Analytics on performance and target setting, Research on user needs and pain points, Product Marketing on go-to-market plans, and other stakeholders as needed
• Ensuring fluid communication with senior leadership, cross-functional stakeholders and peers, adapting your communication style to the audience and crafting your message accordingly
• Being nimble and pragmatic, willing to update your plans and requirements as new information becomes available or priorities shift