(USA) Senior Manager, Creative - Associate Creative Director, (Design & Art Direction) Brand Campaigns

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Associate Creative Director, (Design & Art Direction) Brand Campaigns,

Location: Jandy Hub, CA (Los Angeles)

About us: Walmart Creative Studio (WCS) is the in-house creative agency for Walmart. Our team develops breakthrough and distinctive omnichannel brand design systems that meet customer needs and drive business objectives while keeping our Fortune #1 brand relevant in culture. We use creativity and design to make Walmart an obvious choice for all.

We are positioned as an internal creative agency hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels, categories, campaigns, and touchpoints. We are ruthlessly focused on our customers, insight-driven creative strategies, and integrated solutions that build the brand and grow the business.

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

Overview:

The Associate Creative Director (Design & Art Direction) Campaigns will support the Walmart Creative Studio in concept through execution for marketing/brand/seasonal campaigns that translate across multiple channels including 360 full funnel paid, social, digital, email, site, print and in-store. Our ideal candidate must be a strategically minded problem solver, conceptual thinker and able to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. They should be organized, detail-oriented and exhibit outstanding creative judgement while dreaming big and pushing boundaries. In this role, the ACD (Design & Art Direction) will partner with an ACD (Concept & Copy) and work alongside the Creative Director to connect the overarching marketing strategy and executional 360 full funnel campaign. This role works collaboratively with other team leads (within creative & cross-functionally) and focuses on primarily on Toys and Walmart+ membership campaigns. You will also help lead external agency partners using a blend of strong leadership and hands-on creative expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaboration: Ideate, create, and execute 360 campaign creative across all channels (owned & paid).  Work cross-functionally with marketing, ops teams, integrated strategy and external agencies to ensure creative cohesion at every touchpoint.
  • Build trust and effective relationships with key partners in a large, highly matrixed organization.
  • Develop creative leadership and marketing pitch decks to gain alignment setting the team up for success.
  • Manage projects, growth, and development of mid and junior level creatives.
  • Self-directed / critical thinker.
  • Pursue ways that we can work better, faster.
  • Manage projects that are on-brief and on-brand, mitigating feedback, ultimately keeping workstreams on track.

• Trend Analysis: Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, culture and consumer behaviors to inform creative decisions and maintain our brand’s competitive edge.

• Quality Assurance: Maintain high standards of quality and craft throughout the conceptual and execution process, ensuring that the final work meets or exceeds expectations.
  • Attend & oversee production shoots as needed.
  • Ability to design assets and brand campaigns as needed

• Project Oversight: Manage team & high-profile projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, advertising, or a related field.
• 10+ years