Director, UX Design

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What you'll do...

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