(USA) Staff, Product Manager - Search Ranking

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a Staff Product Manager, you will lead the strategy and execution of complex search ranking and relevance products, driving end-to-end outcomes from discovery through value realization. You will define and own a multi-quarter product vision and roadmap focused on helping customers discover the most relevant products while improving engagement, conversion, and broader business performance. This role requires deep customer and technical insight, strong stakeholder collaboration, and data-driven decision-making. You will partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Design, and Business teams to identify opportunities, shape machine-learning and algorithmic ranking capabilities, and measure their impact through experimentation. You will also address complex product-discovery challenges, including improving the ability of new and emerging items with limited interaction history to surface when they are relevant to customers. You will influence product and technical direction, mentor peers, and ensure alignment with business goals while advancing innovation and operational excellence within the product area. This position requires a strategic mindset and strong leadership without direct people-management responsibilities.
 
About the team:

The team leads strategy and execution for complex search ranking, relevance, and product-discovery experiences. It combines deep customer and technical insights with mature product leadership to define product vision, roadmaps, and go-to-market plans. Working closely with Engineering, Data Science, Design, Analytics, and Business partners, the team uses experimentation, machine learning, customer insights, and emerging technologies to make it easier for customers to find relevant products. The team manages the product lifecycle, prioritizes initiatives using data-driven insights, and delivers measurable improvements in customer experience and business performance while maintaining high standards of integrity and operational excellence.
 
What you'll do:

• Define and execute a multi-quarter product vision and strategy for complex search ranking and relevance products, aligning customer needs, technical opportunities, and business goals.
• Lead end-to-end product lifecycle management, coordinating cross-functional teams from discovery and development through go-to-market planning, launch, experimentation, adoption, and scaling.
• Build deep customer and market insights using data analysis, design thinking, customer feedback, and product-performance data to identify and prioritize opportunities across search and discovery.
• Drive data-driven decision-making through experimentation, advanced analytics, and AI opportunity assessment, using search-quality metrics and downstream customer and business metrics to improve relevance, engagement, conversion, and overall search performance.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to shape the evolution of machine-learning and algorithmic ranking capabilities, influencing technical direction, architecture, feasibility, and innovation while translating customer and business problems into clear, measurable product objectives.
• Develop strategies that improve relevance and conversion while supporting appropriate product discoverability, including addressing cold-start challenges for items with limited interaction history so new and emerging items can surface when relevant to customers.
• Mentor product managers on product strategy, roadmap development, experimentation, launch readiness, and customer-centric product practices.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across technical and business teams to drive alignment, successful product adoption, and measurable outcomes.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience driving product strategy and managing multi-quarter roadmaps for complex or multiple related products.
• Product management experience with search, ranking, recommendations, personalization, or other machine-learning-driven customer experiences.
• Strong understanding of relevance, ranking, and experimentation concepts, with the ability to partner effectively with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Design, and Business teams.
• Expertise in data-driven decision-making, including advanced analytics and experimentation to evaluate product hypotheses and measure customer and business impact.
• Ability to connect improvements in search relevance and customer experience to measurable outcomes such as engagement, conversion, and the discoverability of new and emerging items.
• Deep understanding of product lifecycle management, from discovery through launch, scaling, adoption, and value realization.
• Ability to translate customer, market, and product insights into prioritized, measurable problem statements and product direction.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and technical direction without direct authority.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and the ability to assess their practical application within search, ranking, and product development.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust and align teams around customer and 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 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 $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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 7 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 9 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 6 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, 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.

Primary Location...

1345 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America

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