Product Lifecycle Management Jobs in Arkansas

Position Summary

Help millions of customers find what they need—when and where they need it.

At Walmart, we're transforming how the world shops. Every day, hundreds of millions of customers and members rely on us to connect them with the products they need across stores, clubs, and digital channels. Behind every successful shopping journey is a powerful ecosystem of inventory intelligence, product discoverability, and merchant decision-making.

We're seeking a visionary Director, Product Management – Inventory Findability to lead the strategy, innovation, and execution of a critical product portfolio that powers how inventory is found, positioned, priced, and surfaced across the enterprise. This leader will shape the future of our Global Enterprise Product Findability and Merchant Intent platform, driving measurable business outcomes at one of the world's largest retailers.

If you're passionate about solving complex problems at massive scale, building exceptional teams, and delivering products that create meaningful impact for customers and associates, we'd love to hear from you.

Define the Future of Inventory Findability

You'll own the vision, strategy, and execution for a portfolio that includes:
- Product Findability
- Merchant Intent
- Planogram Solutions
- Pricing Platforms
- Digital Shelf Language (DSL)
- Wayfinding and Inventory Discovery Experiences

You'll connect customer needs, merchant priorities, operational realities, and technology capabilities into a cohesive product strategy that improves discoverability, inventory productivity, and customer satisfaction across Walmart's ecosystem.

Lead Customer-Centered Innovation

You'll champion a deep understanding of customers, merchants, operators, and associates by:
- Driving customer research, journey mapping, and opportunity discovery
- Defining high-impact problem statements and measurable success metrics
- Ensuring teams focus on outcomes, not outputs
- Translating customer insights into scalable product solutions
- Building durable feedback loops that continuously improve the customer experience

Shape Product Strategy at Enterprise Scale

As the product leader for this portfolio, you will:
- Develop and communicate a multi-year product vision
- Align roadmaps to enterprise priorities and business objectives
- Evaluate build, buy, partner, and platform reuse opportunities
- Navigate complex tradeoffs across technology, operations, and customer value
- Influence executive stakeholders and drive strategic alignment across the organization

Drive End-to-End Product Excellence

You'll oversee the entire product lifecycle, including:
- Discovery and product definition
- Prioritization and roadmap management
- Development and launch execution
- Adoption, measurement, and optimization
- Value realization and business impact tracking

You'll partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Business leaders to deliver solutions that create measurable results.

Accelerate Data & AI-Powered Decision Making

You'll lead teams in leveraging advanced analytics, experimentation, and AI to:
- Define and monitor outcome-based product metrics
- Establish instrumentation and measurement frameworks
- Apply experimentation and A/B testing to validate decisions
- Extract actionable insights from complex datasets
- Integrate AI capabilities into both products and product development processes

Build High-Performing Teams

You'll lead multiple product teams and play a critical role in developing Walmart's next generation of product leaders by:
- Coaching and mentoring product managers
- Establishing clear performance expectations and growth opportunities
- Building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing teams
- Creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning
- Strengthening cross-functional collaboration across the organization

What You'll Bring

Required Experience

- Significant experience leading Product Management organizations at scale
- Proven success owning complex product portfolios and enterprise platforms
- Experience building and executing multi-year product strategies
- Strong track record of delivering measurable business and customer outcomes
- Experience leading cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Business functions
- Demonstrated success influencing senior executives and enterprise stakeholders
- Experience leveraging data, experimentation, and customer insights to drive decisions
- Strong financial acumen, including understanding product investments, business value, and resource allocation

Preferred Experience

- Retail, merchandising, inventory, supply chain, pricing, or store operations experience
- Experience with enterprise platforms, internal tools, and operational technology
- AI/ML-enabled product development experience
- Experience leading globally distributed teams
- MBA or advanced degree preferred

Leadership Expectations

Respect the Individual

You build inclusive, high-performing teams where people feel empowered, valued, and inspired to do their best work. You develop talent through coaching, mentorship, and meaningful growth opportunities.

Act with Integrity

You lead with humility, transparency, and accountability. You uphold Walmart's values, champion ethical decision-making, and create an environment where associates feel comfortable speaking up.

Serve Our Customers and Members

You put customers and members at the center of every decision. You balance innovation with operational excellence while driving value through an Every Day Low Cost mindset.

Strive for Excellence

You raise the bar, embrace continuous improvement, and challenge teams to think bigger. You foster innovation, encourage learning, and drive transformational change across the organization.

Why Walmart?

The scale of our business creates opportunities unlike anywhere else. The products you build will influence how millions of customers shop, how associates operate, and how merchants make decisions every day.

You'll work alongside world-class product, engineering, data, and business leaders while helping shape the future of retail through technology, data, and AI. Join us and help redefine what's possible in inventory findability at Walmart.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 13 years’ experience in product management or related area.

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, Supervisory experience, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture. Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location

802 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.