Senior Manager, Product Management, Self Serve UI, Sponsored Products

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About The Team

As the leader of the Self-Serve Sponsored Search (Sponsored Products) Ads team, you'll build industry defining ad platforms at scale that enable Walmart suppliers and sellers to reach shoppers with relevant ads and high performing campaigns while helping shoppers discover products to enhance their shopping journey.

The experience and skills required for this role aligns closely with 'Group' level titles used at other organization in the industry.

If you are motivated by complex, purposeful challenges, this role at Walmart Connect could be the fit you've been looking for. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Product Management of Sponsored Search Self-Serve Ads Platform to help reimagine the way we empower Suppliers and Sellers/Marketplaces with best-in-class omni-channel advertising tools at scale. This role will lead the adoption of our advertising products across customer segments.

• You're comfortable influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly.
• You're great at building high performance product management teams.
• You have a test and learn mentality and an agile way of working to improve your team's product.
• Y ou are resourceful, disciplined for execution, and have a can-do attitude.
• You like digging into data and doing some analysis.
• You're able to use metrics to improve performance.
• You enjoy building strategy for increasing demand of your product.
• You're excited about solving complex challenges.
• You're customer-centric in spirit and in execution.
• You have hands on experience of driving product adoption.
• You have extensive knowledge in Digital and Retail Media Advertising.
• You have knowledge in Digital Ad Stack, Retail Media Advertising, Sponsored Search, Paid Search, Marketplace, and Sponsored Brands
• You have experience in working hand in hand with Design UX and Researchers.
• You have experience in building user friendly platforms.

• Driving product lifecycle from requirement definitions, research, metrics analysis, technical specifications, development, testing, KPIs, and other launch efforts
• Working with engineering , and Walmart partners to define the data requirements, measurement methodologies.
• Working with Design team and researchers to define user experience.
• Conducting industry and competitive analysis to understand the emerging trends in the advertising industry to identify new opportunities. Conduct customer research to define customer segments and identify needs to inform product roadmap.
• Partnering with advertising marketing team and Walmart retail teams such as Marketplace teams to create unique, compelling experiences that benefit shoppers and our advertising clients
• Developing and enhancing products - you will manage product roadmaps, align business and technical needs, analyze customer and product data, turn customer insights into actionable initiatives, determine rollout strategy, and manage risks.
• 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
• 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.
• Providing overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs

• 9 to 11 years of experience in product management or related field
• 3+ years of experience managing other product managers
• 3+ years in one of the following: Sponsored Search / Paid Search / Sponsored Products (preferably as a product manager or marketer)
• Experience with Ad-Tech, Mar-Tech, Marketplaces, Keyword bided marketing channels (PPC, CPC, Product Listing Ads)
• Experience in end-to-end product delivery, self-serve platforms, design, customer experiences, automation, optimizations, and data analytics
• Sound business judgment as well as ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements and prioritize
• Must be able and willing to think and act strategically and tactically
• Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, proven ability to influence others internally and externally

• MBA a huge plus!
• Business or Engineering background
• 1-2+ years User Experience and User interface experience with Sponsored Search / Sponsored Product self-serve platforms
• Experience leveling up and building high performance product managers.