Group Director, Product Management - Cloud and Data

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

If you're thinking 'scale', think bigger, and don't stop there. At Walmart Global Technology, we don't just innovate; we enable transformations across stores and online channels for the Walmart experience. We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week more than 260+ million customers and members visit our 11,600+ stores under 69 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With last fiscal year revenues of approximately $524 billion and 2.3 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the world’s largest retail business. Our teams collaborate across the globe to build and deploy solutions that enhance our customer experience, improve the lives of our associates, and create value for our business.

Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. We innovate to deliver a seamless and straightforward experience for our customers. Our tech talent solves the biggest and most complex problems. They drive digital transformation where data and analytics enable us to serve our customers better and create a digital relationship. As our customers evolve and adapt, we are taking it a few notches further here. We're changing what customers can expect from the experience of shopping, from the physical stores to mobile, social, and even online; we're not just ready for the future of shopping, we're creating it.

About Team:

The Walmart Global Platform Product team manages the Platform portfolio capabilities to support Walmart's applications and infrastructure needs. The organization owns the platform products (Distributed Public/Private/Edge Cloud Infrastructure & Services, Databases, Streaming, Big Data, Machine Learning), vision, strategy, roadmap, and life cycle processes delivering scalable solutions to Walmart.

Building the right technology foundation for Infrastructure & platforms is vital to success at the scale of Walmart. Our team builds and maintains the foundational technologies that support the tech organization. Included in this are data platforms, enterprise architecture, DevOps, cloud computing, and infrastructure. All of these products and services are supported by scalable and powerful infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless employee and customer experience across stores, digital channels, and distribution centers.

What you'll do:

The Platform Product organization has the vision to provide a transformative, scalable, secure, and efficient Platform as a Product that brings business value to our customers. The organization offers a huge opportunity to streamline, innovate, and build the right Cloud and Data products for a multi-cloud ecosystem.

You will lead the Product Platforms team to drive the product innovations, adoption, and solutions to the applications team and developers across the globe. The products’ portfolio involves developing products for Hybrid Multi-Cloud. The team will look through the spectrum of products and drive consistency and standardization, which are cost-effective and provide business value to Walmart.

• Translate application team needs into product roadmap from platform organization.
• Build and unify the Platform portfolio and look at the Platform as a product
• Improve the overall product excellence, developer, and application teams’ experience in product adoption and usage.
• Continuously innovate product capabilities based on the evolving application needs keeping scalability, availability, and high performance in mind.
• Measure and improve the critical business metrics to enhance ROI, the choice of build vs. buy, and adopting cutting technology products from the market.
• Provide Multi-Cloud Product Evangelism and Technology leadership and vision.
• Employ the best product management methodologies with a deep understanding of customers' requirements, customer experience, identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that grow adoption, improve customer experience, and drive business growth.
• Provide high-level strategy and framework to apply across the products’ portfolio to evaluate, build, and manage the Products.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams, drive product roadmap, and deliver quick time-to-market by prioritizing the activities and product requirements.
• Act as the brand ambassador of all the Cloud & Data Platform portfolio products and drive adoption by providing solutions leveraging platform products across all Walmart segments.
• Build a strong relationship with Walmart's different business segments, provide consulting and adoption services throughout the application development life cycle.
• Provide the right architectural advice best practices in product adop