Senior Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics Testing & Monitoring

Position Summary

Position Summary... Walmart Connect is key to Walmart’s growth strategy. Walmart has built a closed-loop media business division of America’s largest omnichannel retailer. Walmart Connect offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers, no matter where, how and when they shop. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-visibility team within the largest company in the world.

Walmart Connect is a leading ad tech platform, committed to delivering innovative solutions and ensuring the highest standards of compliance and integrity. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Manager to drive and manage compliance testing and monitoring for our fast-growing U.S. retail media network. This role designs and executes a risk-based testing program focused on advertising compliance, data use, and ethical business practices across the campaign lifecycle.

This candidate will also ensure ad enforcement by managing monitoring of ads after they go live to ensure they are compliant.

• Design and maintain a comprehensive, risk-based compliance testing and continuous monitoring program covering end-to-end advertising workflows, including audience creation and targeting, creative review and approvals, campaign trafficking and optimization, measurement and reporting, billing and revenue recognition touchpoints, and post-campaign analyses.
• Manage annual testing plans, sampling methodologies, and testing scripts aligned to regulatory, self-regulatory, contractual, and platform-policy requirements.
• Lead thematic testing of marketing claims substantiation and restricted categories (e.g., health and wellness, financial services, alcohol), disclosure and native ad labeling, testimonial/influencer compliance, environmental/social claims, and retail price and promotion representations.
• Establish monitoring for brand safety, viewability, fraud/invalid traffic, and platform policy adherence using ad verification and QA tools; investigate exceptions, escape issues, and recommend control enhancements.
• Develop and track corrective action plans; validate remediation; maintain high-quality work papers and evidence; prepare clear written reports and dashboards communicating testing results, root causes, business impact, and control maturity trends to senior leadership and relevant committees.
• Coordinate with Global Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management and Business Risks and Controls teams (as applicable), to align testing scopes, avoid duplication, and ensure effective second line of defense oversight.
• Maintain current awareness of emerging laws, self-regulatory developments, platform policy changes, and industry best practices; translate regulatory change into updated control objectives and test procedures.
• Support investigations of control exceptions and potential misconduct identified through testing or monitoring; partner with Legal and HR as needed; contribute to training content to address control gaps and embed lessons learned.
• Ensure effective and timely updates and reporting to Director of Compliance, highlighting key issues and remediation plans.
• Develop recommendations for product enhancements and AI use around testing and monitoring.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures and process documentation for Walmart Connect testing and monitoring governance, where relevant to Compliance organization.
• Demonstrate curiosity and a growth mindset; create an environment that supports learning, innovation, compliance and ethics, and exhibit resilience in the face of setbacks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, product, engineering, sales, operations, business operations, strategy, and marketing to identify and implement controls and ensure effectiveness of controls.
• Build strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners.
• Work collaboratively and cross‑functionally to achieve objectives and communicate to a variety of audiences with influence and inspiration to garner commitment and action.

• Professional skills and experience to contribute to an impactful and high performing team, one that is committed to…