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Walmart Inc. is the world''s largest retailer by revenue, operating a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores, as well as a growing e-commerce presence through Walmart.com. Industry: General Merchandise & Grocery Retail
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The Group Director, Product Management – Search & Recommendations Quality leads the strategy for customer discovery across the digital ecosystem. This leader oversees multiple product organizations responsible for Search Quality, Recommendations, and Discovery Optimization platforms. Day-to-day responsibilities include defining long-term visions for search relevance, retrieval systems, and ranking frameworks while managing recommendation systems that power cross-surface experiences. The role involves building scalable frameworks for multi-objective optimization, explore/exploit capabilities, and diversity optimization. Key technical competencies include machine learning-powered products, experimentation frameworks, and data science integration. The position solves complex discovery challenges by balancing customer relevance with business objectives across international markets and marketplace environments. The successful candidate will align stakeholders across engineering, design, and analytics to improve engagement, conversion, and satisfaction metrics at a massive scale.
Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for Search and Recommendations Quality across the digital ecosystem.
Own the product strategy and roadmap for search relevance, retrieval systems, and ranking optimization frameworks.
Lead the strategy for recommendation systems to improve customer discovery and shopping outcomes across all surfaces.
Drive the development of discovery optimization platforms, including unified ranking, diversity frameworks, and multi-objective optimization.
Oversee multiple product organizations and develop the leadership bench strength for Search, Recommendations, and Optimization teams.
Partner with Engineering, Data Science, and Design to align technical capabilities with customer experience and business objectives.
Communicate strategy, progress, and investment recommendations to executive leadership across various business units.
Establish scalable frameworks that balance customer relevance, exploration, and business priorities at a massive scale.
What we're looking for
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 15 years’ experience in product management.
Option 2: 17 years’ experience in product management or related area.
Experience leading Search, Recommendations, Marketplace, Discovery, or AI-driven consumer platforms at scale (preferred).
Deep understanding of search systems, recommendation systems, experimentation, optimization frameworks, and machine learning-powered products (preferred).
Experience operating across multiple business units, markets, or international organizations (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead through organizational complexity (preferred).
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related area and 14 years’ experience as a product manager (preferred).
Machine Learning
Recommender Systems
Search
Ranking
Personalization
Data Science
Experimentation
Product Strategy
ML Infrastructure
Content Discovery
Data Analysis