Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Walmart Marketplace
Walmart Marketplace is one of the fastest-growing U.S. e-commerce platforms. As we scale, protecting our customers, sellers, and brand through proactive risk management is essential. The Seller Risk organization helps prevent bad actors from entering the ecosystem and monitors seller behavior throughout the lifecycle to maintain a safe, high quality Marketplace.

Role Overview
The Emerging Threats Analyst II supports Walmart Marketplace’s Emerging Threats program by identifying, analyzing, and helping mitigate new and evolving seller risks across onboarding, identity verification, and ongoing seller lifecycle monitoring. You will partner closely with the Director of Emerging Threats to surface early risk signals, investigate patterns, and translate insights into scalable detection and enforcement strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Detect emerging seller threats by monitoring onboarding and lifecycle signals to identify new fraud vectors and abuse trends (e.g., identity risk, behavioral anomalies, misrepresentation, coordinated networks, counterfeit risk, prohibited/restricted goods).
• Conduct investigations and deep-dive analyses to determine root cause, scope, and impact of suspicious activity; document findings and support escalations as needed.
• Develop and maintain early-warning signals and risk frameworks across the full seller lifecycle (pre-onboarding, onboarding, post-onboarding monitoring).
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering to translate threat patterns into detection logic
• (models/heuristics), automation, dashboards, and tooling; help define and monitor performance metrics.
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety, Compliance, and Risk Oversight partners to support governance, consistent triage, and response processes.
• Create recurring and ad-hoc threat intelligence briefs summarizing trend shifts, emerging
• patterns, risk tradeoffs, and recommended mitigations for leadership audiences.
• Drive continuous improvement by turning investigation outcomes into playbook enhancements, policy feedback, and tooling recommendations.
• Support cross-functional testing and rollout of interventions (e.g., step-up verification,
• monitoring thresholds, enforcement controls) and measure impact.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in marketplace risk, fraud analysis, trust & safety, identity risk, payments risk, compliance operations, investigations, or related analytical functions.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguous signals and
• evolving threat landscapes.
• Experience analyzing large datasets and translating insights into operational recommendations that reduce risk and improve detection outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to summarize complex issues clearly for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Seller Risk programs in a large-scale e-commerce marketplace
• environment.
• Familiarity with machine learning-driven risk models and analyst contributions (feature ideation, labeling/ground truth, threshold tradeoffs, monitoring).
• Knowledge of threat intelligence methods, including trend monitoring, actor typologies, and network-based behaviors.
• Exposure to global risk considerations and evolving regulatory or compliance constraints.

Tools & Skills

• SQL and/or BI tools for analysis and dashboarding; ability to partner with technical teams on instrumentation and automation.
• Strong Excel/Sheets skills; ability to build repeatable monitoring views and operational reporting.
• Bonus: Python/R, anomaly detection concepts, graph/network analysis, experimentation
• measurement.

Why Walmart
You’ll contribute to work that protects customers, sellers, and the Walmart brand—helping the Emerging Threats team stay ahead of fraud and abuse patterns at Marketplace scale

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.
Bentonville, Arkansas US-09401: The annual salary range for this position is $70,000.00 - $130,000.00
Sunnyvale, California US-08479: The annual salary range for this position is $91,000.00 - $169,000.00 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, management information systems, industrial engineering, engineering management, business, information systems, project/program management, information technology, finance, management, or related area.
Option 2: 2 years’ experience in project management, program management, program operations, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

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...

702 Sw 8Th St, 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.