Senior Manager, Technology Operations in Hoboken

Senior Manager of Trend Intelligence

Bentonville, AR: $90,000 - $180,000/yr Hoboken, NJ: $108,000 - $216,000/yr Regular/ Permanent Salaried

Position Summary:

Walmart's Item Experience & Content Strategy organization is looking for a strategic and action-oriented leader to shape how hundreds of millions of customers discover, browse, and shop online. As the Senior Manager of Trend Intelligence on the Social Commerce team, you will lead the strategic management, automation, and delivery of initiatives that turn trend and social signals into actionable insights and customer experiences.

This is a highly cross-functional, high-impact opportunity to scale Walmart's Trend Hub, leveraging social data pipelines to influence the end-to-end customer journey on

About the Team:
Walmart is redefining the ways we discover and shop by blending content, culture, and commerce. The Social Commerce team helps power this transformation by building cutting-edge experiences on-site, enabling new sources for rich content, leveraging creator and community-led insight, and scaling trend intelligence across the enterprise. Alongside our Item Experience and Content Strategy teammates, we aim to make Walmart the most insightful, engaging, and effortless place to shop.

What You'll Do:

• Define Walmart's trend-understanding, owning the data pipeline from social signals to centralized insight.
• Manage relationships with data providers, evaluate emerging sources, lead partner negotiations, and drive integration prioritization for Trend Hub.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to refine trend-understanding logic, enhance internal dashboards, and maximize insight visibility.
• Collaborate across Walmart to integrate trends into various org/team workflows, helping stakeholders build trend-informed features that elevate customer experiences.
• Leverage data analysis/modeling to handle large datasets, validate logic, and turn raw data into recommendations.
• Develop business cases and roadmaps to pitch ideas, influence priority, and secure buy-in from leadership.
• Turn ambiguous challenges into actionable playbooks, long-term strategy, and automation.

What You'll Bring:

• Action-Oriented Leadership:
  Ability to thrive in ambiguity, applying structure and robust frameworks to accelerate end-to-end results.
• Strategic Problem-Solving:
  Strong analytical mindset to develop long-term, sustainable solutions to complex operations issues in real-time.
• Data-centricity:
  Proven ability to leverage data insights to inform strategic decisions, identify business opportunities, and validate processes.
• Domain Expertise:
  Deep understanding of the social platform landscape, trend-detection tools, and modern social commerce innovations.
• Executive Storytelling:
  Exceptional storytelling capabilities, with the ability to construct and deliver audience-specific, enterprise-level narratives.
• Collaborative Ownership:
  Proactive leadership style, demonstrating the ability to manage complex initiatives independently while unifying cross-functional teams.