Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart Global Tech is looking to hire a Principal Technical Program Manager in Sunnyvale, California to drive and support initiatives within US Omni and eCommerce portfolio. This individual will lead all projects within but not limited to the Search and Personalization work stream to ensure on-budget, on-time and quality delivery of all committed features. The job will be to ensure continued successful performance of the work stream by managing and overseeing all initiatives, monitoring program and individual project progress; providing guidance regarding project methodologies and best practices; providing periodic project status reports and executive summaries to stakeholders and management; building and developing a team of strong project managers, ensuring their skills are aligned with established Project Management Organization (PMO) standards; and providing mentorship and guidance to peers and management on methodology and practice. 

Do you consider yourself as a Technical Program Manager who has a strong technical foundation and a natural motivator, cross-functional relationship builder, and champion for driving the right level of process to ensure smooth and predictable program execution in a fast-paced innovative environment?

About Team: Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.


What you'll do:

• You will be the owner and driver of complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-product technology projects using your techno-functional expertise for program delivery.
• You will be responsible to ensure planning through deep discovery, scope and feature set of programs, understand and articulate detailed requirements with all stakeholders and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing schedules, identifying risk’s and dependencies, obtain cross team alignment, and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders.
• You understand systems interdependencies and lead cross-functional teams towards technical solutions
• You will be responsible communicating and explaining your program’s analysis, risks, issues, and recommendations to leadership, as well as explain the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
• You proactively and effectively communicate program statuses, identify potential risks and setbacks, and develop mitigation strategies
• You are constantly striving to develop best practices in a changing and dynamic environment to ensure on time delivery. Ensuring program documents are complete, current and available for staff and leadership review
• You actively drive and contribute to resource planning to ensure program success and drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions

What you'll bring:

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, related fields or equivalent practical experience and 9+ years’ Cross-functional Program Management experience working among several groups such as: design, product management, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to manage complex business problems in terms of people, processes, and technology to enable teams and deliver best-in-class products.
• Able to exercise technical judgment to keep goals for programs, projects, and products realistic and attainable within a given timeline.
• Strong communication skills that is succinct and tailored to stakeholders, team members and executives alike.
• Prior experience with agile methodologies
• You can conduct basic data analysis using such as tools SQL and Excel, and presenting the results in a graphical manner (charts, pivot tables)
• Well organized in managing and tracking multiple workstreams. Able to multi-task effectively.
• An ability to understand technical subjects and emerging technologies, and their relevance to the marketplace.
• Agile methodologies experience
• Experience working with technical teams with interest and the ability to learn other technical areas as needed.
• Problem-solving and organizational experience across multiple teams.

About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, Hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 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 incentive 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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .

The annual salary range for this position is $168,000.00-$252,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Stock equity incentives

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, information technology, engineering, or related area and 6 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• Option 2: 8 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, 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.

Certification in Project Management., Master’s degree in Business Administration, with specialization in strategy, supply chain, finance, information systems, or related area and 4 years’ experience in product design.

Primary Location...

860 W CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-0000, United States of America