(Usa) Principal Technical Program Manager

In addition to base salary, Walmart total compensation may also include bonus incentives, stock options, and more.

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Principal Technical Program Management, Emerging

Technology- Mixed Reality Platform

Here at Walmart, we're driven by an intellectual curiosity that keeps us on the cutting-edge of user design and a seamless customer experience. We're intrigued by the opportunity to engineer the most optimal approach that drives conversions and generates consumer loyalty across every touchpoint of the digital journey.

About The Team

The mission of the Emerging Technology team at New Business Venture and Emerging Tech is to deliver breakthrough capabilities that save customers time and money and enable associates and partners to serve and delight customers anytime, quickly, anywhere. We are a team of technologists at the forefront of the brighter future who build digital assistant and platform capabilities for Conversational AI and Mixed Reality.

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead programs that will build and scale our Mixed Reality Platform to deliver our mission.

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will be the owner and driver of several complex programs, forming a portfolio of efforts to meet the business goals that support the strategic vision of building the Converse Platform.

About Team: Mixed Reality Platform

Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.

The mission of the Emerging Technology team at New Business Venture and Emerging Tech is to deliver breakthrough capabilities that save customers time and money and enable associates and partners to serve and delight customers anytime, quickly, anywhere. We are a team of technologists at the forefront of the brighter future who build digital assistant and platform capabilities for Conversational AI and Mixed Reality. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead programs that will build and scale our Mixed Reality Platform to deliver our mission.

What You'll Do

• Be a thought leader who can help accelerate the capabilities delivery and challenge others to change.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent program teams from delivering on program outcomes.
• Provide on-going visibility to program status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, metrics, etc.) to all stakeholders.
• 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.
• Create a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, speed, innovation, and learning.
• Manage new and existing technologies integration
• Lead executive committee meetings with key stakeholders to help make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues

Now, imagine doing all the above for the world's largest retailer. That's the Walmart experience. Intrigued?

You'll really wow us if...

• You are a great reader of people, culture, and tea leaves and a relationship builder to make things happen.
• 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 are a fast learner who can master technical subjects and technologies relevant to the program.
• You can bring the whole team with you to help the organization moving its needles.
• You can create scalable program structure from ambiguities
• You can build the relationship to make things happen and are a keen reader of people, culture, and tea leaves.
• You have a knack for building alignment across different models, varying priorities, and multi-disciplinary yet integrated teams.
• You are highly functional in a dynamic environment.
• You can convert strategy into execution, and you are comfortable bending tactical and strategic.

You'll make an impact by...

• Managing relationships with geographically distributed teams, offshore development teams, and third-party vendors.
• Interacting, negotiating, and influencing decisions across multiple tracks and executive leadership.
• Ensuring business and global technology goals are being met.

What You'll Bring

• Ability to manage large, complex programs in an Agile environment
• Quantitative or engineering background is preferred
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - preferred
• Skilled in Data-driven, objective analysis and decision making
• Platform Experience
• Exceptional and concise verbal and written communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to rationalize ambiguity
• Comfortable in a fast paced, growing environment
• Demonstrated ability to build strong x-functional relationships
• Experience managing programs that are related to AR/VR/extended reality, Computer Vision or 3D Modeling
• 10+ Years of Program Management Experience leading complex SaaS platforms
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification - preferred
• Comfortable presenting to and persuading multiple stakeholders from front line associates to business and Global Technology Executives
• Strong experience with Enterprise Agile Program Management

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 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:

• Stock equity incentives
• Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

• Option 2: 8 years' experience in engineering, engineering program management, technical program management, product management, or related area.
• 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.

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...

640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America