• Job Description

  Req#: WD1632169

  Position Summary...

  What you'll do...

  
  POSITION: Senior Manager II, Data Science – Walmart Creator

  LOCATION: San Bruno, CA or Hoboken, NJ or Bentonville, Arkansas

  About the teams:

  Walmart Marketing is a dynamic, multidimensional organization dedicated to redefining how the world shops through impactful creative and fast-paced innovation – all grounded in customer insights and brand strategy. We live out our company values each day while striving to exceed customer expectations and drive growth for the company. Named Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year in 2022, you’ll join an internationally recognized team of thinkers, creators, and problem solvers passionate about helping people save money and live better.

  Social Commerce Team is focused on creating innovative customer experiences that shape the future of retail and commerce. Walmart is an early pioneer in social commerce —an area that is fundamentally transforming the way people discover and shop — through our efforts in shoppable livestreaming, social shopping tools and partnerships, and platforms like Walmart Creator. Our ultimate goal is to create cutting-edge experiences that shorten the distance between product inspiration and purchase, and make it easy for customers to shop.

  Marketing Analytics team helps drive business strategy by synthesizing data and performance metrics into actionable insights across product categories, customer segments, marketing channels and sales channels. It is a customer-focused, action-biased, data-driven team chartered with driving business by understanding customer behavior using advanced analytics. This is a high-impact and high-visibility role within the organization with expectations to deliver immediate results. The complexity of this role requires one to develop actionable insights from copious amounts of competitive, conversion, and behavioral data from proprietary and third-party data.

  What you will do:

  As the Senior Manager II, Data Science – Walmart Creator, you and your team are responsible for providing insights about Walmart’s Social Commerce works team’s performance and optimization opportunities for our marketers, product category managers, advertising agencies, internal partner teams, and senior leaders. You will help develop a holistic understanding of this workstream and how other business levers work together to grow customer engagement, drive incremental sales, and contribute to longer term strategic objectives. You will be a true thought leader and partner in the Marketing organization that can work across key parts of Marketing (Social Commerce Marketing, Data Engineering, Customer Data science, Campaign Measurement and Experimentation), Product, Finance to bring data-driven decision making to our Social Commerce marketing strategy. This is a rare opportunity to shape the trajectory of emerging customer behavior. You will bridge the art of what’s possible across today’s rapidly evolving social commerce landscape with this highly visible and impactful role.

  You will make an impact by:

  • Your focus will be to build, lead and define measurement and attribution goals, outline a runway to reach them, specifically for Walmart Creator and Social Commerce, leaning heavily on Marketing Mix Models, Multi-Touch Attribution, causal inference, experimentation, and other statistical tools and advanced analytics solutions available within the marketing eco-system.

  • You will design, oversee, and analyze intricate experiments, such as A/B tests, multi-arm bandits, and factorial designs, to evaluate marketing strategies and optimize key performance metrics.

  • Applying causal inference methodologies when live A/B testing is not feasible, and using advanced machine learning techniques including regression (linear, logistic), time series analysis, propensity models, and clustering, to generate predictive models that enhance marketing decision-making.

  • Building customer views to understand the impact of Social Commerce initiatives on customers across all stages of the buying lifecycle including New User Acquisition, Engagement/Retention, and Reactivation.

  • Integrating disparate data sources and partnering with various engineering teams to define data architecture and in-house tool requirements, and improve data quality towards single source of truth.

  • Collaborating with Marketing Business Intelligence team towards creating insightful data visualizations to empower marketers with self-serving data solutions to drive tactical decision making.

  • Consulting with senior leadership/ business partners to understand overall goals/functional objectives, decipher key business challenges, identify tactics to anticipate and mitigate business challenges/issues and develop potential success criteria.

  • Communicating technical material clearly to a range of audiences and building narratives that provides insight into the factors impacting business performance.

  • Leading and managing a team of onshore, nearshore, offshore analysts, providing guidance and support, and ensuring that junior analysts have the resources they need to be successful.

  You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

  • You have strong grasp of statistical concepts including hypothesis testing, Bayesian inference, and causality.

  • You have in-depth understanding of machine learning frameworks (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch) for model development and validation.

  • You have proven record of developing predictive models using various machine learning algorithms, tailored to solve marketing challenges.

  • You have experience contributing to a high-performance culture delivering multiple projects, priorities in a fast-paced and growing segment of Walmart ecommerce business.

  • You have affiliate and budget planning experience and understand how fees and commission work together .

  • You have experience driving understanding of customers and their interaction with products through in-depth analyses of user behavior and engagement.

  • You have a track record of solving challenging & transformational analytics and data science problems in scale – applying your skills, experience and leadership to deliver innovative analytics solutions which drive the company forward.

  • You can collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

  • You have experience managing delivery of forecasting models, and related presentation to stakeholders under strict timelines, while understand growth and risk factors of new and future product releases.

  • You have hands on experience and skill communicating complex quantitative information and insights to a broad audience of senior leaders & decision makers.

  • You are curious, proactive and comfortable working in unstructured environments.

  Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics of related filed and 4 years’ experience in data analytics or related field.

  • Expert at SQL and Excel - ability to manipulate large quantities of data to drive business decisions is a must.

  • 2+ years of experience leading cross functional teams and influencing Product, Finance, Business Operations and Engineering.

  • Strong organizational skills, a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the ability to lead projects, communicate effectively, and be a self-starter.

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in Marketing Analytics, Digital Analytics, or eCommerce Analytics with experience working with marketers to maximize marketing contribution to business performance goals.

  • 5+ years of experience leading cross functional teams and influencing partner teams.

  • MBA or Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

  • Strong organizational skills, a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and the ability to lead projects, communicate effectively, and be a self-starter.

  • Extensive experience designing and analyzing controlled experiments and observational studies, including multivariate testing and factorial designs

  • Proficiency in experimental design methodologies for marketing campaigns, with the ability to address potential biases and confounding factors. Skilled in evaluating experiment results, identifying statistically significant differences, and making data-backed recommendations.

  • Expertise in feature engineering, model regularization, and hyperparameter tuning to enhance model performance.

  • Experience in developing synthetic control groups for causal impact modeling and measuring intervention effects.

  • Experience and a working understanding of different marketing attribution methodologies (rule-based attribution, multi-touch attribution, Media Mix Models).

  • Polished communication skills with ability to clearly convey complex data and information across a broad landscape of clientele.

  • Passion for working in a fast-paced agile environment.

  • We're moving toward 3 days in the office per week, with flexibility. The team is based across San Bruno, CA, Bentonville, AR, and Hoboken, NJ. For this role, preference will be given to candidates based in or willing to relocate to within commuting distance of one of the 3 offices. For exceptionally strong candidates, remote option can be considered.

  How you’ll thrive at Walmart:

  • Performance-based incentive awards

  • 401k with company match

  • Discounted employee stock purchase plan

  • Paid parental leave,

  • New surrogacy & adoption benefits

  • Unlimited Flex Time Off

  • Working alongside a diverse group of collaborative and innovative team members

  • Opportunity for growth and development across several areas of the Fortune 1 organization

  • And much more

  Equal Opportunity Employer

  Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

  Who We Are

  Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

  At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .

  The annual salary range for this position is $184,000.00-$260,000.00

  Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

  Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

  - Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

  - Stock equity incentives

  Minimum Qualifications...

  Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

  Option 1: Bachelors degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 2: Masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 3 years' experience in an analytics related field. Option 3: 7 years' experience in an analytics or related field.

  Preferred Qualifications...

  Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

  Data science, machine learning, optimization models, PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Information Technology, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Successful completion of one or more assessments in Python, Spark, Scala, or R, Supervisory experience, Using open source frameworks (for example, scikit learn, tensorflow, torch)

  Primary Location...

  850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America

• About the company

  Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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