Principal, Agent Builder

Location:

United States

Independently owns the full lifecycle of production-grade autonomous agent programs, from stakeholder engagement through deployment and outcome reporting. Operates with full autonomy and serves as a force multiplier across the organization. This is the core level within the Agent Builder job family.
What You'll Do
Autonomous Agent Design & Build

• Design and deploy autonomous agents using appropriate coding platforms, APIs, triggers, and LLM-based functions.
• Own solutions end-to-end with minimal dependencies and no unnecessary handoffs.
• Rapidly iterate using natural language interfaces and first-principles thinking.
• Spend more than 60% of time directly building, deploying, and improving agents.

Business Process Translation & Systems Thinking

• Translate complex business challenges into precise, executable agentic workflows.
• Apply systems thinking to identify edge cases, failure modes, and unintended consequences.
• Extract process nuances from operational stakeholders, converting tacit knowledge into agent logic.
• Define appropriate human-in-the-loop controls and decision boundaries for each deployment.

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Ownership

• Independently engage VP- and SVP-level stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and deliver automation programs.
• Own business outcome reporting, including cost savings, productivity gains, and revenue impact.
• Lead change management efforts with operational teams to drive adoption and sustainable outcomes.
• Partner with data engineering teams on data access, integration, and governance requirements.

Continuous Improvement & Force Multiplication

• Continuously monitor agent performance; optimize, enhance, and re-architect solutions as needed.
• Champion an agentic mindset and AI-driven ways of working across the organization.
• Challenge legacy processes and advocate for automation over incremental improvement.
• Contribute reusable patterns, frameworks, and components to the team's shared library.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience in business operations, strategy, product management, process automation, supply chain, technology, or a related field.

Option 2: 6 years of relevant experience in business operations, strategy, product management, process automation, supply chain, technology, or a related field.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see . Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
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