Group Director, Technical Program Management - Strategic Partnerships - AI Natives
Walmart IL · Posted Nov 6, 2026
- San Bruno, California, United States
- Full-time · Director
- $254K–$481K per year
- 15+ years
Lead Walmart’s most strategic foundation-model partnerships (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), translating frontier AI capabilities into differentiated consumer experiences and enterprise advantage at scale.
Compensation
The annual salary range for this position is $254,000.00 - $481,000.00
Responsibilities
- Define and lead Walmart’s partnership strategy and multi-year roadmap with OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities across consumer AI experiences, agentic commerce, enterprise productivity, developer tooling, foundation-model access, and new technical capabilities.
- Develop executive-ready recommendations that clarify strategic value, tradeoffs, investment requirements, and buy, build, or partner implications.
- Lead end-to-end deal execution, from exploratory discussions and internal alignment through term sheets, commercial negotiation, contract execution, and renewal strategy.
- Structure complex agreements involving model access, API and platform integrations, capacity and commercial commitments, data rights, intellectual property, security, privacy, governance, co-development, and go-to-market collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, quantitative discipline, technology, or a related field
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
- Nice to have: Retail
- Nice to have: E-commerce
- Nice to have: Enterprise technology