(USA) Distinguished, Product Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 2026. Walmart scores A on the Alion truth index.
Position Summary...
Sparky is Walmart’s customer-facing AI shopping assistant-helping build a new, conversational, multimodal, and agentic way for customers to shop.The team is defining how advances in generative AI, multimodal experiences, personalization, reasoning, and agents can transform the customer shopping journey-from inspiration and discovery through consideration, purchase, and post-purchase.
Working closely across product, design, engineering, data science, and business, the team is shaping how Sparky becomes an integral part of the broader Walmart ecosystem, creating connected, intelligent experiences across discovery, search, personalization, item experiences, cart, checkout, services, and post-purchase-and redefining how customers engage with Walmart across the end-to-end shopping journey.
What you'll do...
Contribute to and help shape the long-term product vision and strategy for Sparky, bringing deep customer, product, market, and technology insights into the direction of the experience.
Own major strategic problem spaces and product initiatives within Sparky, translating the broader vision into clear customer problems, product strategies, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
Help define how Sparky evolves from a conversational shopping assistant toward increasingly multimodal and agentic experiences that can understand customer goals, reason across complex needs, and help customers complete shopping missions.
Identify emerging opportunities created by advances in AI and determine where those capabilities can create differentiated and durable customer value for Walmart.
Shape how Sparky becomes an integral part of the broader Walmart ecosystem, creating connected, intelligent experiences across discovery, search, personalization, item experiences, cart, checkout, services, and post-purchase.
Develop strategic frameworks that help Walmart determine where AI-native experiences can fundamentally improve shopping and where existing interaction models remain more effective.
Partner across the organization to turn Sparky’s product vision into an actionable portfolio of experiences and capabilities that can be tested, learned from, and scaled to hundreds of millions of customers.
What You’ll Bring...
Deep customer, product, market, and technology insights that can help shape the direction of Sparky and the broader customer experience.
Strong product vision and strategy, with the ability to translate a broader vision into clear customer problems, product strategies, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
Deep understanding of advances in generative AI, multimodal experiences, personalization, reasoning, and agents, and how those capabilities can create differentiated and durable customer value.
The ability to identify and develop the highest-impact customer opportunities and translate them into product strategies and experiences that can operate at Walmart scale.
The ability to think across the end-to-end shopping journey, from inspiration and discovery through consideration, purchase, and post-purchase.
Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to work closely with product, design, engineering, data science, and business leaders.
The ability to operate in emerging and complex problem spaces, develop strategic frameworks, and turn product vision into experiences and capabilities that can be tested, learned from, and scaled.
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.
Bellevue, Washington US-11663: The annual salary range for this position is $156,000.00 - $312,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-30008: 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