Senior Product Manager, Sponsored Search APIs - Walmart Connect

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Hoboken, NJ
108K-234K Annually
Mid level
Big Data • Cloud • Logistics • Machine Learning • Retail
The Role
The Senior Product Manager will drive the development and enhancement of APIs for Walmart Connect’s advertising platform, focusing on requirements, metrics analysis, technical specifications, and creating a seamless developer experience. This role involves building relationships with stakeholders, conducting customer research, and identifying trends in the advertising industry to inform product roadmap.
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What you'll do...

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What you'll do...

 As a part of Walmart Connect’s API Product team, you'll build industry defining ad platforms at scale that enable Walmart suppliers and sellers to reach shoppers with relevant ads and high performing campaigns while helping shoppers discover products to enhance their shopping journey.

If you are motivated by complex, purposeful challenges, this role at Walmart Connect is the fit you’ve been looking for. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to help reimagine the way we empower advertisers and partners with best-in-class API Platform that can drive publishing of advertisements at scale with campaign management, optimization and measurement.

APIs are critical to the success of Walmart Connect’s Ad Platform. The person in this role will lead various efforts to build new APIs, improve existing APIs, and revamp the developer experience for our partners and advertisers.

You’ll make an impact by: 

  • Drive development of APIs from requirement definitions, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, KPIs and other launch efforts.
  • Develop and enhance APIs - you will align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data, turn customer insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risks.
  • Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders by driving priorities aligned to business goals, communicating, and prioritizing product roadmaps, and gaining buy-in from executive leadership.
  • Conduct industry and competitive analysis to understand the emerging trends in advertising industry and developer tools to identify new opportunities.
  • Use domain expertise, internal and external best practices to improve developer experience for our partners and advertisers.
  • Conduct customer research to define partner segments and identify needs to inform API product roadmap.
  • Partner with internal advertising sales team and Walmart retail teams to create unique, compelling APIs that benefit shoppers, partners and our advertising clients.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field 
  • 1+ years of experience in API Product Management
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in Product Management
  • Passionate about solving complex problems
  • Sound business judgment as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize
  • Must be able and willing to think and act strategically and tactically
  • Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, proven ability to influence others internally and externally
  • Test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your team’s products. 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience in building advertising APIs for external partners at scale
  • AdTech / MarTech experience in Sponsored Product / Sponsored Search / Paid search experience
  • Experience with REST APIs and API Platforms
  • Deep understanding of Developer Experience
  • Experience developing products for external partners 
  • Experience defining product strategy involving cross-functional stakeholders 
  • MBA a huge plus!

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.

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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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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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.

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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.

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

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Hoboken, New Jersey US-10279/Hoboken, New Jersey US-10649:The annual salary range for this position is $108,000.00-$216,000.00

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San Bruno, California US-08848:The annual salary range for this position is $117,000.00-$234,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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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 5 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 7 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 4 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.

Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location...

121 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5989, United States of America

Top Skills

APIs
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The Company
HQ: Bentonville, AR
578,950 Employees
Hybrid Workplace

What We Do

Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.

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