Position Summary...

As a Manager in Product Research on the New Propositions team, you will lead research efforts to transform complex customer workflows into intuitive, user-centered experiences. Leveraging Design Thinking, you’ll coach teams, facilitate design sprints, and conduct both generative and evaluative research to uncover deep customer insights. Your storytelling skills will help translate findings into compelling narratives that shape product strategy and innovation. This role plays a key part in informing emerging technologies like Generative AI and Extended Reality, ensuring they are grounded in real customer needs and behaviors.

What you'll do...

• A servant leader mentality with a passion for empowering teams.

• A demonstrated track record supporting design research, working cross-functionally, and thinking strategically across broad or complex product areas.

• A maker mindset with a deep toolkit of generative and evaluative research methods, and the ability to guide teams in applying them effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• The ability to translate research findings into product priorities, strategic narratives, and new business opportunities across multiple projects.

• Experience facilitating Design Thinking and Lean methods within cross-functional teams.

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to motivate and align teams and partners.

• A passion for leading by doing—you inspire, coach, and contribute to a strong team culture.

You’ll Make an Impact By:

• Crafting a strategic research roadmap using a broad range of in-person and remote methods, including interviews, unmoderated studies, field studies, participatory design, co-creation, diary studies, surveys, and usability testing.

• Guiding research initiatives and collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners.

• Solving complex problems with curiosity and openness.

• Proactively leveraging competitive research, data, and analytics to inform design and business strategy.

• Thinking holistically about the entire ecosystem of end users and competitors.

• Seamlessly switching between deep design thinking and rapid execution.

• Demonstrating exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 6 years of design experience OR

• Master’s Degree and 5 years of design experience OR

• 8 years of design experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in one or more of the following fields:

  • Architecture

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Business

  • Cognitive Science

  • Computer Science

About New Propositions at Walmart 

Innovation, curiosity, and learning are at the core of everything we do at Walmart, driving our commitment to serving our customers. By joining the New Propositions team within Enterprise Marketing, you’ll play a key role in validating and scaling new initiatives in Augmented Reality, Generative AI (including Sparky), and home delivery. Our goal is to fuel Walmart’s core business, create new value propositions for our customers, and unlock differentiated experiences for Walmart customers that will enhance and redefine their relationship with retail.  

We are building a hard-working team that is passionate about delighting customers, changing the retail landscape, and driving technical innovation. We are looking for entrepreneurial, collaborative, and forward-thinking teammates to join us in our mission. 

About Walmart Marketing

Named Ad Age's Marketer of the Year in 2022, you'll join an internationally recognized team of thinkers, creators, and problem solvers passionate about helping people save money and live better.

Walmart Marketing is a dynamic, multidimensional organization dedicated to redefining how the world shops through impactful creative and fast-paced innovation - all grounded in customer insights and brand strategy. We live out our company values each day while striving to exceed customer expectations and drive growth for the company.

We orchestrate marketing campaigns and experiences that reach millions of daily shoppers. Our work spans the digital and physical spaces and combines the work of numerous internal teams and external advertising and media agencies. Our teams work together to show our customers how they can save money and live better. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to build the future of commerce and consumer services, a Marketing role at Walmart could be what you've been looking for.

Benefits & Perks:  

Beyond competitive pay, 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. 

  

Who We Are 

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com 

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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The annual salary range for this position is $80,000.00-$155,000.00

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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 Marketing, Business Administration, or related field. Option 2: 4 years’ experience in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Primary Location...

702 Sw 8Th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America