Product Manager - Last Mile Delivery Optimization

Role summary:
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 product vision, roadmaps, and lifecycle management. You will influence cross-functional teams, leverage data-driven decision-making, and identify emerging technology opportunities to enhance product impact. Acting as a recognized authority, you will mentor peers and elevate product management practices while ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and delivering measurable value.
About the team:
The Last Mile Delivery (LMD) team ensures every Walmart store-fulfilled order reaches customers promptly with a seamless experience. We develop platforms and tools managing millions of deliveries weekly across thousands of pickup points, including express, scheduled, and same-day fulfillment. This role is part of the Last Mile Optimization domain, owning systems that determine delivery capacity needs, positioning, and demand flow through the network.

The team focuses on balancing customer commitments, driver productivity, and operational efficiency by anticipating demand, optimizing capacity, building efficient routes, and continuously refining the delivery network.
What you’ll do:

• Setthevisionandroadmap
• Owntheproductlifecycle
• Definetheoptimizationarchitecture connectingforecasting,capacity planning,sourcing,tripcreation,routing,real-time execution.
• Partnerdeeplywith Data Science and Engineering tobuildforecasting,optimization,simulation,anddecisioningcapabilitiesthatoperateat
  
  Walmart scale.
• Defineobjectivefunctionsandguardrails acrossspeed,reliability,density,utilization,driver experience,andeconomicsratherthanoptimizinganyonemetricinisolation.
• Leadcross-functional alignment across
  
  Sourcing,Matching,Pricing,Incentives,DynamicSLA,Operations,Finance,andDriver
  
  Experience.
• Drivethetransitionfromrulestointelligence bydeterminingwheredeterministiclogic,optimization,machine learning,andautomationshouldeachbeused
• Buildreusableplatformcapabilities

What you’ll bring:

• Bringstrongproductjudgmentin marketplaces,logistics,network optimization,routing,orlarge-scaledecisionsystems
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• Canconnect capacityplanningandnetworkexecution intoonecoherentproductstrategyratherthanoptimizingindividualpartsofthesystemindependently.
• Arecomfortablereasoningthrough multi-objectiveoptimizationproblems wherecustomerspeed,cost,density,anddriverexperiencecompetewithoneanother.
• Cantranslatemessyoperationalcomplexityintoa cleanplatformarchitecture androadmapthat
  
  Data Science,Engineering,and Operationscanexecuteagainst.
• Operatewithhighanalyticalrigor:youdefinetheobjectivefunction,measurethesystem,understandtradeoffs,andcontinuouslytuneperformance.
  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…