Walmart Connect is looking to build industry-defining omni-channel ad platforms at scale that enable Walmart suppliers and sellers to reach shoppers with relevant Sponsored Ads (PPC/CPC) and high-performing campaigns, while helping shoppers discover products. They are seeking a Staff Product Manager with ML/AI experience to reimagine how they empower brand advertisers with best-in-class omni-channel advertising solutions at scale.
Requirements
- You have strong experience with building ML/AI based solutions and can apply these techniques to implement new Sponsored Ad products
- You have industry expertise in conducting AB testing/experimentations at scale
- Strong industry experience in Machine Learning is required
- Digital advertising industry experience is required
- Experience with information retrieval or ads predictions and recommendations is a strong plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in product management.
- 9 years’ experience in product management or related area.
Responsibilities
- Leading the design and build of products backed by large-scale machine-learning models to improve ad prediction and conversions.
- Serving as a thought leader and collaborating with data scientists and ML engineers to build solutions to improve the information retrieval techniques and predict user interests.
- Driving better yield for the Sponsored Products advertising platform by regular model optimizations and multiple experimentations.
- Working closely with data science, engineering, product analytics, experimentation platform teams, and other XFN partners to design and implement new ad products.
- Driving product lifecycle from requirement definitions, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, KPIs and other launch efforts
- Identifying new opportunities by conducting industry and competitive analysis to understand the emerging trends in the advertising industry.
- Defining vision and strategies for your product family, using domain expertise, internal and external best practices, identifying market opportunities, building business cases, and approving objectives
Other
- You're comfortable influencing others, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly
- You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your team's products
- You're excited about solving complex modern-day advertising challenges
- You're customer-centric in spirit and in execution
- Building collaborative relationships with key partners by driving priorities aligned to business goals, communicating and prioritizing product roadmaps, and gaining buy-in from executive leadership
