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Position Summary... What you'll do...Role summary:
Walmart’s ability to serve customers with greater speed, reliability, and efficiency depends on intelligent fulfillment platforms. Walmart Fulfillment Engine powers how the company promises, plans, optimizes, and executes fulfillment across stores, fulfillment centers, distribution centers, marketplace partners, and transportation networks. As a distinguished product lead you'll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the Simulation Engine, a foundational platform for modeling, experimentation, optimization, and decision intelligence. The platform will enable product, engineering, data science, and business teams to conduct what-if analyses, evaluate strategies, test algorithms and policies, and estimate customer, operational, and financial impact before production deployment at enterprise scale.
About the team:
Join a dedicated team advancing Walmart Fulfillment Engine’s data science capabilities with a focus on Promise and Sourcing. The team designs multi-agent workflows, develops forecasting models with calibrated uncertainty, and creates optimization solutions balancing speed, cost, and capacity. Leveraging advanced machine learning and AI, they deliver actionable insights and robust monitoring systems. Collaborating across Finance, Product, Engineering, and Operations, the team integrates models into planning and real-time decision-making. Their work enhances fulfillment accuracy, capacity utilization, and cost efficiency, ensuring a faster and more reliable experience for customers.
What you'll do:

• Define and execute the Simulation Engine’s product vision and roadmap.
• Translate fulfillment challenges into scalable simulation, optimization, experimentation, and decision-intelligence capabilities.
• Advance AI-assisted and agentic workflows for scenario generation, evaluation, recommendations, and experimentation.
• Partner with engineering on APIs, data contracts, integrations, scalability, reliability, observability, and governance.
• Collaborate with data science and AI teams on simulation, optimization, forecasting, causal analysis, and agent-based decisioning.
• Prioritize high-value fulfillment and planning use cases.
• Establish metrics for accuracy, cost, reliability, adoption, and resilience.
• Apply modern product-management practices to accelerate delivery and adoption.
• Communicate strategy, risks, tradeoffs, progress, and measurable business impact.

What you'll bring:

• Bring 10+ years of experience across engineering, support, product development, and technical consulting.
• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, statistics, engineering, or a related field.
• Lead complex technical products, enterprise platforms, and data-driven capabilities at scale.
• Translate customer and business needs into scalable product strategies and roadmaps.
• Partner effectively with engineering, data science, product, and business teams.
• Apply knowledge of supply-chain optimization, fulfillment systems, experimentation, causal analysis, or decision intelligence.
• Influence senior leaders, navigate ambiguity, and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Define success through customer, operational, financial, reliability, and adoption metrics.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and executive-presentation skills.

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. 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.
The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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 computer science, engineering, or related area and 11 years’ experience in product management. Option 2: 13 years’ experience in 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.

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 10 years’ experience as a product manager, ideally working on consumer-facing, large-scale, highly complex B2B/C products, Supervisory experience, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture. Masters: Business Administration, Masters: Computer Engineering, Masters: Computer Science Primary Location... 802 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.