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Senior Director, Engineering - Cross Border Trade
Walmart
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Position Description
About you:
• You have a passion for technology and an eagerness to apply the latest developments in the engineering field to the commerce of cross border trade.
• You are a strategic and seasoned technology leader with strong eCommerce and retail instincts who is highly motivated by the idea of building a strong engineering team and working with cross-functional partners to develop roadmaps impacting both our stores and our platforms globally.
• Your cadence is a perfect match for the fast pace of Walmart Labs and you’re equally comfortable getting into the details of what it takes to get a great experience out the door as you are thinking about the long-term product and business strategy for our eCommerce and retail assets.
• You are excited to become a global leader within our organization and eager to lead and collaborate with our teams who sit abroad.
• You are an influential leader with vision. Your industry acumen, shopper empathy, and technical depth carry weight when working across business units in the organization.
• International travel is an inherent requirement with this role; you must be willing to travel at least 25% of the time.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the Walmart eCommerce International Cross Border Trade team for Walmart Labs. Understand customer and business needs to successfully translate these requirements into a competent and efficient platform strategy.
• Create a collaborative and effective working relationship with functional leaders around the globe to understand business challenges and prioritize solutions that will enable the success of these functions.
• Build, develop, and guide high-performing talent. Define a long-term talent strategy.
• Adapt and deliver on the Agile strategy for the team.
• Consistently scan the market / competitors and technology landscape for applicable market insights and learnings to improve our engineering approach / strategy.
• Manage resource planning, budget planning, and tracking against these measures for your area of responsibility.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for associates and managers who report into you.
Minimum Qualifications
Technical Experience
- BS/MS/PhD in engineering, information technology, computer science or related experience with 10+ years of experience in software product development and hands-on coding experience in the past.
- Extensive background in leading software engineering product teams.
- 10+ years of experience in various elements of full stack – front end, back end, data and insights.
- Technical leadership in design, implementation, and support of core database services that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable.
- Extremely strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on if required and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.
- Good understanding of the retail and eCommerce technology domain.
Leadership Experience
- Proven track record of strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to communicate and negotiate with both business and technical teams. Great interpersonal skills.
- Good experience of working with globally distributed and cross-functional teams in a collaborative and productive manner to drive business objectives.
- Ability to attract, build, and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps, recruiting, and developing talent, and by supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning.
- When you add the numbers, you will realize that this role will probably help influence the largest pool of customers anywhere in the world. If that gives you goose bumps – then you are the kind of candidate we want!
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she has a strong sense of product ownership and drive, coupled with a strong passion for technology and innovation. He /she is a thought leader, passionate about building nextgen products that delight our customers.
Company Summary
Walmart Lab's mission is simple: to revolutionize how Walmart approaches commerce, both digitally and physically and to deliver innovation through the use of cutting-edge technologies with speed and agility. We have some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley driving our innovation. Join us as we change the future of commerce!