Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Position Summary: Walmart is seeking a visionary and execution-focused Group Director, End-to-End AI to lead the transformation of how AI solutions are discovered, built, governed, deployed, and scaled across the enterprise. This leader will own the enterprise AI delivery experience, creating a seamless operating model that enables builders—from software engineers to citizen developers—to move from idea to production with speed, safety, and confidence. The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, AI platforms, governance, developer experience, and enterprise transformation. The successful candidate will help define the future of AI development at Walmart by eliminating friction across the AI lifecycle, establishing common standards, improving automation, and ensuring governance is embedded into the platforms and workflows where builders operate. This leader will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI while balancing innovation velocity, operational excellence, and responsible AI practices. What You'll Do Define Walmart's End-to-End AI Strategy

• Establish the vision, roadmap, and operating model for the enterprise AI lifecycle.
• Create a unified experience spanning:
  • AI discovery
  • Development
  • Evaluation
  • Governance
  • Deployment
  • Runtime management
  • Continuous improvement
• Partner with senior leaders to align AI priorities with enterprise strategy and business outcomes.

Accelerate AI Adoption at Enterprise Scale

• Drive programs that increase the speed and quality of AI solution delivery.
• Identify and remove process bottlenecks preventing teams from moving AI solutions into production.
• Design scalable onboarding, deployment, and governance mechanisms that reduce weeks of effort to days—or eventually hours.

Build an AI-Native Delivery Ecosystem

• Partner across AI platforms, engineering, product, security, and governance teams.
• Establish standards and best practices for AI development, agentic systems, model lifecycle management, and AI operations.
• Drive adoption of AI-native development patterns and agent-assisted delivery models throughout Global Tech.

Operationalize Responsible AI

• Ensure governance, security, privacy, and compliance capabilities are embedded directly into AI development workflows.
• Champion "governance by design" and automation-first approaches.
• Drive implementation of risk-tiered controls, automated reviews, policy enforcement, observability, and runtime safeguards.

Establish Enterprise AI Visibility and Measurement

• Create executive dashboards and metrics demonstrating AI adoption, business value, builder productivity, deployment velocity, and operational health.
• Provide leadership with actionable insights that influence strategic investment decisions.
• Define success measures focused on outcomes rather than activity.

Lead Large-Scale Transformation

• Build and lead cross-functional teams responsible for enterprise AI enablement.
• Influence without authority across product, engineering, infrastructure, governance, compliance, and business organizations.
• Drive organizational change as Walmart evolves toward AI-native ways of working.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale, enterprise platform or transformation initiatives.
• Proven success delivering products and platforms used by thousands of internal or external users.
• Experience driving software engineering, product management, or platform strategy organizations.
• Strong understanding of modern AI/ML technologies, generative AI, agent frameworks, and software development practices.
• Experience managing senior leaders and distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI, ML, developer platforms, or enterprise productivity ecosystems.
• Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, risk management, or regulatory frameworks.
• Deep knowledge of developer experience (DevEx), platform engineering, and software lifecycle management.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation programs involving multiple business units.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive organizational alignment.

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. 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.
The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00 - $370,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
5 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area, 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.

Primary Location...

703 Associate Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.