{"id":47734,"date":"2021-08-16T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47734"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:50:42","slug":"walmart-posts-vacancy-for-crypto-focused-product-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/walmart-posts-vacancy-for-crypto-focused-product-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart posts vacancy for crypto-focused product leader."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest American retailer Walmart has opened a vacancy for a product leader linked to cryptocurrencies. This is stated <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.walmart.com\/us\/jobs\/WD704706-usa-senior-director-ii-corporate-development-and-integration\">on the company&#8217;s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new role entails creating and managing the development strategy in the area of digital assets. The successful candidate will be &#8220;identifying cryptocurrency-related opportunities for investment and collaboration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;As an expert [&#8230;], you will define the product direction and roadmap,&#8221; the job description says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to domain knowledge and experience in the cryptocurrency industry, the candidate is expected to have experience in <span data-descr=\"mergers and acquisitions\" class=\"old_tooltip\">M&#038;A<\/span>, investment banking and project management.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 The Block, citing a Walmart patent application, reported plans to launch its own stablecoin.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the retailer patented a blockchain-based energy-grid technology that could restrict electricity supply and be settled in cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, Walmart was named among billionaire companies,<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/forbes-names-50-blockchain-using-companies-with-annual-revenue-or-market-capitalisation-over-1-billion\"> actively using blockchain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest American retailer Walmart has opened a vacancy for a product leader related to cryptocurrencies. This is stated on the company&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2233],"class_list":["post-47734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-walmart"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47735,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47734\/revisions\/47735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}