Staff, Technology Strategy

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Position Summary...

We are seeking a Staff, Technology Strategy to join the AI Acceleration team within Walmart Global Technology India. This senior individual contributor role will help shape and execute the strategy for responsible, practical and measurable AI adoption across the technology organization. The role sits at the intersection of technology strategy, applied AI, business analysis, change management, enablement and program execution—translating emerging AI capabilities into scalable ways of working that improve associate productivity, leadership decision-making, and business outcomes.

In this role, you will work independently across multiple strategic priorities, converting ambiguous organization challenges into structured strategies, executive narratives, measurement frameworks, enablement programs, and execution plans. You will partner with product, engineering, data, communications, people, finance, legal/risk and other tech stakeholders to build alignment, drive adoption, surface insights and connect AI investments to clear usage, value, and impact metrics.

About Team:

The AI Acceleration team is a small, high-impact team within Walmart Global Technology India focused on making AI a practical, responsible, and measurable part of how associates think, operate and deliver enterprise value. The team works at the intersection of technology strategy, applied AI, business analysis, change management and enablement—building the frameworks, programs, communities, labs, measurement systems and executive narratives that help teams adopt AI with clarity and confidence. This role sits at the strategic and analytical core of the charter, connecting emerging AI capabilities to real business workflows, adoption outcomes, leadership decision-making, and scalable ways of working across the organization.

What you'll do:

1) Understand Business Context

• Synthesize complex unstructured asks into structured problem statements
• Translate requirements into projects, activities and tasks in alignment with the overall strategy
• Serve as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results
• Recommend new processes and AI first ways of working

2) Strategy Planning & Development

• Conduct ongoing industry & internal research on AI, agentic tools, emerging Tech capabilities, AI skilling needs and enterprise AI adoption best practices & trends. 
• Create custom frameworks for evaluating different options and helping with decisions 
• Identify critical success factors and related key performance indicators for successful strategy planning and implementation
• Synthesize insights into crisp point-of-view strategy documents and executive-level storyboards for senior stakeholder presentations. 
• Build a clear point of view on current AI adoption and integration into day-to-day work (what is used, by whom, for which workflows, and why). 

3) Influencing without authority and building stakeholder consensus

• Communicate articulately and concisely in stakeholder meetings involving multiple teams
• Convey complex information and address ambiguity in a simplified manner to bring everyone onto a common understanding
• Build productive, collaborative relationships with stakeholders
• Influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders across levels within StratOps and outside like Communications, People/HR, Finance, Legal/Risk, Product & Tech to initiate and drive change initiatives across the organization. 
• Independently prepare clear, concise, logically structured reusable materials (talking points, FAQs, narrative arcs, showcase content) to support leadership alignment and communications. 
• Seek and provide constructive feedback, anticipate stakeholder needs/questions and respond appropriately
• Design and run change plans for AI initiatives: stakeholder mapping, impact assessments, change journeys, comms plans and reinforcement mechanisms
• Tailor the strategy by stakeholders to garner Buy-in
• Partner & influence cross-functional teams 

4) Measurement, analytics and leadership reporting 

• Define and instrument enterprise measurement framework for AI cultural change and adoption
• Create leadership reporting channels and regular executive updates (dashboards, QBR content, steering committee readouts)

5) Technology Acumen

• Exhibit AI practitioner knowledge with hands on experience in using AI for research, strategy building, storytelling and vibe-coding custom automations/ dashboard
• Understand available tech products, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, to compare choices
• Assesses different programming tools, methodologies, frameworks and the overarching systems architecture
• Understands AI, frameworks, and tools used across multiple products within the domain to make informed discussions with engineering teams to prioritize efforts versus features and assess the risks of certain features
• Owns business and user acceptance testing of products/features

6) Training, enablement and AI literacy 

• Support leadership training programs and role-based AI enablement curriculum curation
• Translate training needs into actionable requirements and coordinate with training team to evaluate content options and deliver it. 
• Run high-touch enablement mechanisms (office hours, workflow labs, clinics) to accelerate adoption and confidence. 
• Work with Tech team to define AI Lab/ assessment requirements and get it setup for experimentation 

7) Program management 

Own program management for the AI acceleration charter initiatives: planning, execution tracking, risk/issue management, and stakeholder coordination. 

• Develop, prioritize and coordinate work plans and reviews project schedules, costs, milestones, communications, and documentation
• Follow project management methodologies by tracking and monitoring work, holding project teams accountable to timelines, and ensuring adherence to project milestones
• Identify potential project risks and develop strategies to mitigate risks, prioritizing and ensuring the resolution of critical issues.
• Create communication plans which determines communication level, frequency, detail and the  distribution of status updates
• Minimize the impacts of project changes
• Maintain a single source of truth for artifacts (roadmaps, playbooks, comms assets, metrics, and decision logs). 

What you'll bring:

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology strategy, management consulting, product strategy or a related senior individual contributor role within a large technology or GCC organization.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous business needs into structured problem statements, workstreams, projects, and measurable outcomes aligned to enterprise strategy.
• Experience developing strategy artefacts such as executive narratives, decision frameworks, business cases, ROI models, roadmaps, dashboards, and senior-leadership readouts.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex technical and business topics into crisp storyboards, written narratives and presentations for Senior and Executive leadership.
• Hands-on working knowledge of generative AI and applied AI concepts, including prompt workflows, responsible-use practices, hallucination and bias risks, retrieval-augmented generation, privacy/IP considerations and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Practical experience using AI tools to improve strategy, analysis, automation, prototyping, reporting or workflow productivity.
• Experience defining adoption, usage, value and impact metrics; building measurement frameworks; and translating insights into action plans for senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on change management experience, including stakeholder mapping, impact assessments, communication plans, enablement journeys, training rollouts and reinforcement mechanisms.
• Demonstrated ability to influence teams & stakeholders cross-functional product, engineering, data, communications, HR, finance and Infosec stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong program management discipline across multiple concurrent workstreams, including planning, prioritization, milestone tracking, risk/issue management, decision logs and single-source-of-truth artefact management.
• Experience designing or scaling internal AI communities, champion networks, role-based enablement programs, AI labs, workflow clinics or centers of excellence within a large technology organization.
• Bias for action, high ownership, strong judgment, and the ability to operate both strategically and tactically in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA/ PGDM
• Has a good understanding of GCC operating model and ecosystem
• Prior experience in big tech, top-tier consulting, a large GCC or a high-growth technology environment where AI strategy, technology transformation or enterprise adoption was a core part of the role.
• Experience building, evaluating, or scaling applied AI, agentic AI, computer vision, retrieval-augmented generation or large-scale generative AI products, platforms, or internal productivity solutions.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, responsible AI principles, model risk, data privacy, legal/IP considerations and enterprise AI risk management.
• Experience with data analysis and visualization tools to build operational dashboards and track AI adoption, usage, productivity and business value metrics.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience developing cost-versus-value analyses, investment cases or ROI narratives for technology initiatives.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

Global Outreach:
Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits of maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Primary Location...

Walmart Global Tech, Bangalore, Karnataka.

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, information technology, engineering, business, finance, strategy, or related area and 6 years’ experience in retail, eCommerce, strategy, operations, technology, management consulting, or related area
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in retail, eCommerce, strategy, operations, technology, management consulting or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Experience in Technology area will be an add on., Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Finance, Strategy, or related area and 5 Years of relevant experience in Retail, eCommerce, Strategy, Operations, Management Consulting or related area.

Primary Location...

Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India