What you’ll do at
Position Summary…
What you’ll do…
- Create the program structure and shared alignment with the program team across Walmart on vision, business goals, program, and secure cross-functional teams dependencies’ commitment.
- Lead executive committee meetings with key stakeholders to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues
- Provide on-going visibility to program status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics, etc.) to all stakeholders.
- Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent program teams from delivering on program outcomes.
- Manage new and existing technologies integration
- Create a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, speed, innovation, and learning.
- Be a thought leader who can help accelerate the capabilities delivery and challenge others to change.
Now, imagine doing all the above for the world’s largest retailer. That’s the Walmart experience. Intrigued?
What you’ll do:
- Managing relationships with geographically distributed teams, offshore development teams, and third-party vendors.
- Ensuring business and global technology goals are being met.
- Interacting, negotiating, and influencing decisions across multiple tracks and executive leadership.
What you’ll bring:
- 10+ Years of Program Management Experience leading complex SaaS platforms
- Strong experience with Enterprise Agile Program Management
- Demonstrated ability to build strong x-functional relationships
- Exceptional and concise verbal and written communications skills
- Skilled in Data-driven, objective analysis and decision making
- Ability to manage large, complex programs in an Agile environment
- Comfortable presenting to and persuading multiple stakeholders from front line associates to business and Global Technology Executives
- Comfortable in a fast paced, growing environment
- Demonstrated ability to rationalize ambiguity
- Quantitative or engineering background is preferred
- Platform Experience
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification – preferred
You’ll really wow us if…
- You have a knack for building alignment across different models, varying priorities, and multi-disciplinary yet integrated teams.
- You can create scalable program structure from ambiguities
- You are a fast learner who can master technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program.
- You can build the relationship to make things happen and are a keen reader of people, culture, and tea leaves.
- You can convert strategy into execution, and you are comfortable bending tactical and strategic.
- You consider yourself a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within its new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.
- You can bring the whole team with you to help the organization moving its needles.
- You are a great reader of people, culture, and tea leaves and a relationship builder to make things happen.
- You are highly functional in a dynamic environment.
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service, or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 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 virtual, while remaining near the locations Global Tech calls home. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities.
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 $144,000.00-$216,000.00
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 5 years’ experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• Option 2: 7 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 3 years’ experience in product design., Supervisory
Primary Location… 640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America
About Walmart
At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability-and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries-all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?
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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
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