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Design Director, Connect

**Location:** San Bruno, CA

About the Team

Join our award-winning design team and help shape the future of Walmart’s retail media network. Our mission is to bring dignity and access to all through design excellence—regardless of zip code or bank account. We craft compelling experiences that enhance the daily lives of millions of customers, whether at home, in-store, or on the go.

As part of a team at the forefront of retail innovation, you’ll design best-in-class experiences that drive continuous improvement for one of the world’s largest companies. We build the tools that enable advertisers to extend their sales and reach across Walmart’s digital and physical experiences. If you thrive on solving complex challenges and want to redefine commerce and consumer services, a design role at Walmart could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

About the Role

As a Design Director, you will play a strategic leadership role in defining the advertiser experience across their entire journey. You will lead a high-performing team to shape the strategy and design from onboarding to campaign management and optimization—empowering businesses to promote their brands seamlessly across the Walmart ecosystem.

In this role, you will drive innovation by designing intuitive, consumer-grade experiences that simplify onboarding and campaign management while integrating insightful recommendations to help advertisers optimize sales and reach. Leading with design excellence, you will ensure our tools are not only trusted and delightful but also uniquely tailored to advertisers’ needs. You will champion simplicity, transforming complex workflows into seamless and engaging experiences. With strong storytelling skills, you will communicate your vision and product design rationale and influence cross-functional teams and leadership. Balancing business and technology considerations, you will create high-impact, pixel-perfect designs that drive meaningful results in the rapidly evolving retail media landscape.

By innovating on the world’s biggest stage, you will have the chance to shape the future of retail and beyond. If you are motivated by complex, purposeful challenges, being **Design Director, Connect** at Walmart could be the fit you’ve been looking for.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if you have...

+ A strong strategic mindset and a systems thinking approach.

+ Expertise in developing enterprise advertising solutions and tools that enhance campaign performance, streamline workflows, and drive engagement and growth

+ Excellent visual and interaction design skills and a keen understanding of trends in the marketplace – in and out of retail.

+ Ability to communicate concepts in a clear and compelling way to audiences of all levels of understanding and levels of seniority.

+ Track record of shipping high impact customer-facing products in a fast-moving and changing environment – one that celebrates experimentation, iteration, and shipping.

+ Experience leading product design process and building strong cross-functional partnerships.

+ Ability to produce great work in short timeframes, multitask across different projects and platforms and adapt to the ever-changing priorities of the business.

+ Deep experience with business requirement gathering, end-to-journey mapping, facilitating sessions like Design Sprints, conducting competitive analysis, and leading rapid concepting and prototyping.

+ Champion of a design philosophy that is inclusive of all people.

You’ll make an impact by:

+ Leading the Connect Product Design team in a way that nurtures the unique strengths of each member of the team and brings them together in a way that has multiplying effect.

+ Facilitating creative problem-solving across cross-functional partners to drive best-in-class thinking from all parts of the organization and seamlessly integrating competitive organizational goals.

+ Driving and holding others accountable to create experiences that celebrate and empower our end-users.

+ Proactively soliciting, leveraging, and sharing design research, competitive research, data, and analytics to create full-featured and strategic products.

+ Fostering a maker mindset so teams can iterate and experiment collaboratively to challenge the status quo, drive new thinking, and improve processes for creating future-forward product experiences.

+ Thinking holistically so that we build true end-to-end experiences.

+ Switching gears from deep design thinking to rapid-fire execution.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Business, Communications, Fine Arts, or related field and 10+ years of experience in Product Design or related field. 3+ years of experience building and leading high performing teams. 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams.

Perks and Benefits

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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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.

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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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices .

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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.

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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.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart (https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J) .

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The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00-$338,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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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 UI/UX design, graphic design, visual communication, product design, computer science, information technology, or related area and 6 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area. Option 2: 8 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area.

3 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Design certification (for example, IDEOU - Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate), Driving product development in a user experience area, Master's degree in UI/UX Design, Interactive and Visual Design, Product Design, or related area, Related industry experience (for example, retail, supply chain, eCommerce, healthcare), UI/UX, Interactive and Visual Design, Electronics Art, Multimedia Design, 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...

850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.