Job Summary: Staff Product Manager – Horizontal Platform Capabilities at Walmart Data Ventures

Job Summary: This is a Staff Product Manager role within Walmart’s Data Ventures team, focused on owning and advancing core horizontal platform capabilities. These are foundational systems (e.g., shared infrastructure, APIs, tools, or services like data access controls, security, or integration layers) that support multiple downstream products across the organization. The role emphasizes architectural complexity, internal adoption, technical debt management, and proactive scaling in a large enterprise environment.

Walmart Data Ventures monetizes Walmart’s vast first-party data through B2B products (primarily the Scintilla insights platform, formerly Walmart Luminate), providing suppliers and merchants with actionable consumer insights to optimize operations, sales, and decision-making.

Location: Primarily Sunnyvale, CA (with possible flexibility for Bentonville, AR based on similar roles). Salary Range:

• Sunnyvale, CA: $143,000–$286,000 base
• Bentonville, AR: $110,000–$220,000 base Plus annual/quarterly bonuses, stock options, and comprehensive benefits (health, 401(k), PTO, education reimbursement via Live Better U, etc.).

This appears to be an active or recently posted position (requisition similar to R-2333127 or related Staff PM roles in Data Ventures).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy for ambiguous, cross-team horizontal capabilities requiring alignment across 3+ engineering teams.
• Act as the go-to expert: Drive adoption by creating integration standards, incentives, and clear paths for downstream teams.
• Balance roadmap: Prioritize new features alongside technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, and efficiency gains.
• Own go-to-market for capabilities: Develop documentation, training, playbooks, and collateral for smooth launches and high adoption.
• Mentor junior/mid-level PMs on systems thinking, dependencies, and technical communication.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years in Product Management.
• Proven track record scaling horizontal platforms, APIs, or core capabilities in large-scale B2B/enterprise settings.
• Strong persistence in navigating org challenges and delivering adoption.
• Enterprise acumen (e.g., understanding B2B sales cycles, internal change management).
• Experience partnering with Design/UX for usability and adoption.
• Skilled at managing cross-product dependencies via influence, documentation, and data.
• Strategic foresight: Make early decisions to avoid future scaling bottlenecks.

Minimum Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering + 7 years PM experience, or
• 9 years PM experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• PM experience in fast-growing, product-led tech startups (high-velocity environments).
• Expertise in internal tools/platform (improving developer/engineer experiences).
• Background in data governance/compliance (security, privacy, access controls at scale).
• History of product-led growth for internal products (driving organic adoption via UX, education, marketing).

Who This Role Suits Best

This is an individual contributor role for a senior/Staff-level PM who excels at platform/product infrastructure rather than customer-facing features. Ideal if you:

• Thrive on complex, behind-the-scenes problems that enable organization-wide velocity.
• Have built/shared services in big tech/enterprise (e.g., internal APIs, data platforms).
• Enjoy influencing without authority, mentoring others, and thinking long-term about scalability.

If you’re preparing an application, highlight specific examples of horizontal/platform work, adoption metrics, technical debt payoffs, and cross-team orchestration.

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