Staff, Product Manager, Localization

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

Staff, Localization Product Manager The Staff, Localization Product Manager drives globalization readiness across priority platforms within the Global Product organization, ensuring multilingual and AI-enabled experiences meet defined quality, compliance, and launch standards. This role defines enterprise language and AI governance frameworks and ensures they are operationalized at scale. This person will drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Platform, and market stakeholders to ensure multilingual readiness is embedded into roadmaps, release processes, and platform capabilities. The role combines strategic product thinking with enterprise-level orchestration - translating market and linguistic requirements into scalable systems, measurable quality thresholds, and launch readiness criteria.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field and 7+ years of experience in Localization Program Management, Localization Strategy, Global Product Governance, or related area; or equivalent experience
• Experience embedding localization or internationalization standards into product development lifecycles
• Experience working with AI/MT systems, LLMs, or automated translation evaluation methodologies
• Experience defining LQA programs or governance models for AI-enabled or multilingual content
• Familiarity with TMS platforms, translation automation, or CI/CD-integrated localization systems
• Experience operating across multiple international markets and navigating regulatory or compliance considerations
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic standards into actionable product requirements and influence enterprise platform or infrastructure roadmaps
• Experience driving cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, and regional market stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• Professional proficiency in Spanish strongly preferred
• Experience building or scaling enterprise localization governance models
• Experience in large-scale retail, marketplace, or eCommerce platforms
• Advanced degree in a related field
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise localization standards across platforms and content types
• Establish risk-tiered localization and AI usage models based on product surface, regulatory exposure, and customer impact
• Standardize terminology, quality expectations, and approval frameworks across markets
• Embed multilingual governance requirements into product discovery, roadmap planning, and development milestones
• Define and institutionalize multilingual launch readiness criteria, including measurable quality thresholds and market validation requirements
• Integrate language and AI readiness controls into release processes and decision checkpoints
• Partner with Product and Engineering to proactively identify and mitigate multilingual and AI-related risks
• Drive cross-functional resolution of systemic localization issues impacting release timelines, customer experience, or compliance
• Own AI/MT output quality standards and acceptance criteria for customer-facing experiences
• Establish governance frameworks for AI-generated content, defining release criteria and human review requirements aligned to risk and regulatory exposure
• Partner with Platform Product, Engineering, and Data Science to design evaluation benchmarks, monitoring mechanisms, and feedback loops
• Translate AI quality insights and defect trends into prioritized platform enhancements
• Convert governance standards into clear, testable product requirements for localization infrastructure and tooling
• Provide data-driven prioritization input into Platform roadmap decisions
• Ensure platform capabilities support scalable, compliant, multilingual releases
• Partner with market teams and linguistic experts to incorporate market-specific business, regulatory, and language requirements into enterprise standards
• Align on launch readiness validation prior to release
• Establish structured feedback loops to capture in-market quality signals and systemic language issues
• Lead cross-market quality reviews and coordinate systemic remediation efforts

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level