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Position Summary...

As the Associate Creative Director reporting to the Creative Director, Fashion, you’ll be responsible for leading the creative ideation and execution of seasonal fashion initiatives and campaigns. You’ll develop innovative, insight-driven concepts, set the bar for modern, relevant, compelling, and aspirational fashion campaigns, and oversee elevated, consistent graphic design application in post-production. Additionally, you’ll bring a blend of leadership skills and hands-on creative expertise to the table. The ideal candidate has both in-house and agency experience, with a unique ability to blend visual world-building and concepting with organization, agility, and accuracy.

What you'll do...

+ **Best-in-Class Work:** In response to creative briefs, develop strategic ideas that enhance KPIs around brand awareness, engagement, and loyalty. Employ critical thinking to ensure alignment with tasks.

+ Lead the ideation, design, and execution of conversion-driven seasonal fashion initiatives and campaigns. Manage and contribute to a team responsible for designing modern, on-brand visual worlds, writing scripts, partnering with production to identify collaborators (e.g., casting director, editor), overseeing casting, music, location, shot lists, and other sub-workstreams and decks. Attend shoots, manage post-production (including editing and color grading), and ensure the final delivery of asset suites.

+ Stay abreast of industry trends, consumer preferences, and competitive landscapes to inform creative decisions.

+ **Brand Consistency:** Ensure all creative materials maintain brand consistency across various levels of the consumer funnel.

+ **Team Development:** Mentor, guide, and grow the team with optimism and enthusiasm, aiming for an award-winning in-house agency model.

+ **Client Satisfaction:** Build relationships with WCS peer teams, such as marketing, fashion office, and editorial, to sustain and grow business.

Qualifications:

+ Proven experience as an Associate Creative Director or similar role in the fashion retail industry

+ Strong portfolio showcasing a range of 360-degree creative projects in the market at various levels

+ Strong leadership and team management skills

+ Excellent understanding of fashion trends and consumer behavior

+ Proficiency in creative software and tools, including Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Figma, Microsoft Office 365, and Slack

+ Minimum of 10 years of experience in a creative role

+ A mix of agency and in-house experience strongly preferred

+ Bachelor’s degree in Design or a related field

Reporting:

+ Reports to Director, Creative (Fashion)

+ Manages Senior Art Directors, Art Directors, Senior Designers, and Designers

About Walmart Creative:

Walmart Creative Studio (WCS) is the in-house creative agency for Walmart. Our team develops breakthrough and distinctive design systems and creative conversations that drive business objectives and keep our Fortune #1 brand in the culture. We use creativity and design to win hearts, minds, and wallets.

We are uniquely positioned as the internal creative agency of record to be hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels, categories, and campaigns. We are ruthlessly focused on human truths, insight-driven creative strategies and integrated creative solutions that build the brand and grow the business – not just with ads but through brand acts and experiences.

We value talent, innovation, curiosity, collaboration, culture, insights, and results, and we are committed to helping people – all people – live better.

About Walmart Marketing

Named Ad Age's Marketer of the Year in 2022, you'll join an internationally recognized team of thinkers, creators, and problem solvers passionate about helping people save money and live better.

Walmart Marketing is a dynamic, multidimensional organization dedicated to redefining how the world shops through impactful creative and fast-paced innovation - all grounded in customer insights and brand strategy. We live out our company values each day while striving to exceed customer expectations and drive growth for the company.

We orchestrate marketing campaigns and experiences that reach millions of daily shoppers. Our work spans the digital and physical spaces and combines the work of numerous internal teams and external advertising and media agencies. Our teams work together to show our customers how they can save money and live better. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to build the future of commerce and consumer services, a Marketing role at Walmart could be what you've been looking for.

Benefits & Perks:

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.

Who We Are

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

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 $108,000.00-$216,000.00

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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._

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 3 years' experience in editorial content management or related field OR 5 years' experience in editorial content management or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Digital Content Management, Editorial, Retail Management, Supervising Associates, WE-Working for or withCreative Agencies

Primary Location...

5404 Jandy Plc, Los Angeles, CA 90066-7006, 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.