Product Talk Walmart Sr Product Lead on Transforming Enterprise Portfolio Systems
Dec 22, 2025
Sangita Raj, a Senior Product Lead at Walmart with over 15 years of experience, dives into her journey transforming internal portfolio systems into productivity powerhouses. She shares insights on transitioning from engineering to product leadership, with key lessons from T-Mobile, Microsoft, and Amazon. Sangita discusses her innovative work at Walmart in user research, data integration, and driving adoption metrics like a 44% drop in duplicate reporting. Passionate about mentorship, she emphasizes continuous learning and her social impact work tackling period poverty in India.
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Data Is The Currency In Big Companies
- Data is critical in large enterprises; it enables decision-making and ties product work to business and ESG outcomes.
- Sangita learned that measurable analytics underpin credibility and strategic influence at scale.
Engineering Trains Systems Thinking
- Sangita's engineering background fuels credibility with engineers and systems thinking across product strategy.
- Understanding architecture and root causes lets her define achievable, high-impact slices of work.
From Fragmented Tools To One Backbone
- Sangita inherited Clipper as a fragmented set of 15 internal tools and reframed it into a unified enterprise portfolio system.
- She modularized features by persona, integrated execution data, and turned a decommission candidate into Walmart's portfolio backbone.