Senior Manager, Creative Partnerships

At Walmart, we enable the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at unprecedented scale. As primary stewards of our brand promise, “Save Money. Live Better,” we work alongside some of the most talented people in the world to engage with the more than 150M households who shop with us. We believe all digital advertising can be targeted and accountable – and we have Walmart’s sales data to prove it. Walmart Connect wins when suppliers invest in digital media to drive growth; Walmart and our supplier partners win when your digital expertise helps sell more goods online and offline. Growth in our digital advertising business is key to Walmart’s overall growth strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, high-visibility team within the largest company in the world. Walmart Connect is looking for a Sr. Manager, API Partner Development Manager to drive growth, and adoption of the Advertising API offerings. Specifically, we are looking for an API Partner Development Manager to lead our Creative strategy with API integrators, while driving growth, and adoption of the Advertising API offerings. The API Partner Development Manager will manage a group of high impact partners with a goal of amplifying revenue and driving new business. They will work cross-functionally with global partners to define ways of working, strategy and approach, and identify products and experiences that will help WMC scale and acquire net-new customers through our API partner program.

Responsibilities

• Enable WMC sales teams with content, training, and accelerators on specific Partner solutions that can help accelerate deals or expand opportunities
• Support technical API partner manager and API support manager to help API partner manage and grow their business on Walmart
• Collect feedback from partners to help inform and prioritize API product roadmap
• Drive API partner business infrastructure and reporting initiatives
• Own and grow relationship with portfolio of API Partners
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Strategy, Legal, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations to identify product and program enhancements that will drive incremental revenue for Walmart
• Lead Partner outreach initiatives to create a successful joint business and technical integration
• Collaborate with API partners to develop and execute go to market plans through joint PR, marketing, co-selling, developer relations enablement and materials to hit revenue goals
• Identify, own, and drive innovative opportunities and programs to drive efficiencies and scale internally and externally
• Develop creative growth strategy and approach for advertising partners
• Drive joint business planning and track API partner progress to goals

Qualifications

• Experience working cross-functionally, managing initiatives at scale and delivering results
• BA/BS required
• Experience owning or developing a new, fast-paced initiative
• 6-8+ years strategic business and/or partnerships experience, preferably with a successful track record of managing business relationships and cross-functional projects
• Interest or experience in working with complex, technical partners, APIs, and product
• Experience building working relationships at all levels of management, both internal and external facing especially with sales or pre-sales teams
• Experience working in the digital creative and/or ecommerce space
• Experience in identifying innovative solutions on behalf of customers
• Track record of driving programs to improve operational excellence
• Analytical experience with experience diagnosing problems and crafting solutions but also introduce ways to validate and measure outcomes
• Proven experience delivering partnership initiatives, having worked in sales, product, business development, partnership, with an emphasis on automated advertising experiences.

Open to Hoboken, NJ - San Bruno, CA - Los Angeles, CA locations.

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.

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, education assistance with 100% company paid college degrees, company discounts, military service pay, adoption expense reimbursement, and more.

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.com.

The annual salary range for this position is $119,000.00 to $221,000.00.

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
• Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

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.