USA) Staff, Product Manager - Search Ranking

Position: (USA) Staff, Product Manager - Search Ranking
Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a Staff Product Manager, you will lead strategy and execution for complex products, driving end-to-end outcomes from discovery through value realization. This role requires deep customer and technical insight, strong stakeholder collaboration, and ownership of multi-quarter product vision and roadmaps. You will influence product direction, mentor peers, and leverage data-driven decision-making to optimize performance. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams, you will ensure alignment with business goals while advancing innovation and operational excellence within the product area.

This position demands a strategic mindset and authoritative leadership without direct people management responsibilities.

About the team:

The team leads strategy and execution for complex products, driving end-to-end outcomes from discovery through value realization. It combines deep customer and technical insights with mature product leadership to define vision, roadmap, and go-to-market plans. Collaborating closely with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business partners, the team manages product lifecycle, prioritizes initiatives using data-driven insights, and explores emerging technologies. Members influence cross-functional stakeholders, mentor peers, and continuously seek improvements to deliver impactful solutions that align with broader business goals while maintaining high standards of integrity and operational excellence.

What you'll do:

* Define and execute multi-quarter product vision and strategy for complex or related products, aligning with business goals.

* Lead end-to-end product lifecycle management, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver value from discovery through launch and scaling.

* Build deep customer and market insights using data analysis, design thinking, and feedback mechanisms to prioritize product initiatives.

* Drive data-driven decision making through experimentation, analytics, and AI opportunity assessment to optimize product outcomes.

* Influence technical direction by collaborating with Engineering on architecture, feasibility, and innovation without direct authority.

* Mentor product managers on roadmap development, launch readiness, and customer-centric practices.

* Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment and successful product adoption.

What you'll bring:

* Proven experience driving product strategy and managing roadmaps for complex or multiple related products.

* Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

* Expertise in data-driven decision making, including advanced analytics and experimentation to validate product assumptions.

* Deep understanding of product lifecycle management from discovery through value realization.

* Ability to translate customer and market insights into prioritized, measurable problem statements and product direction.

* Familiarity with emerging technologies and their application within product development.

* Excellent communication and collaboration skills to build trust and align business outcomes.

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.

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