(USA) Senior Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics - Walmart Connect (Testing & Monitoring)

Position Summary...

Walmart Connect is key to Walmart’s growth strategy. Walmart has built a closed-loop media business division of America’s largest omnichannel retailer. Walmart Connect offers unparalleled opportunities for brands to reach their desired customers, no matter where, how and when they shop. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-visibility team within the largest company in the world.

What you'll do...

Walmart Connect is a leading ad tech platform, committed to delivering innovative solutions and ensuring the highest standards of compliance and integrity. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Manager to drive and manage compliance testing and monitoring for our fast-growing U.S. retail media network. This role designs and executes a risk-based testing program focused on advertising compliance, data use, and ethical business practices across the campaign lifecycle. This candidate will also ensure ad enforcement by managing monitoring of ads after they go live to ensure they are compliant.  
The highly qualified candidate brings deep experience in advertising controls, measurement and targeting oversight, and continuous monitoring, with the judgment to calibrate controls to business realities. You will partner cross-functionally with teams like Legal, Privacy, Ad Operations, Sales, Product, Data Science, Finance, and Internal Audit to validate control effectiveness, surface insights, and drive remediation that improves compliance outcomes and operational integrity. 
Reporting into the Walmart Connect Director of Compliance and Ethics (US), the Senior Manager, Compliance will play a pivotal role in advertising controls, testing and monitoring, ensuring we meet regulatory requirements and maintain the trust of our partners and clients. 
Key Duties & Responsibilities   

• Design and maintain a comprehensive, risk-based compliance testing and continuous monitoring program covering end-to-end advertising workflows, including audience creation and targeting, creative review and approvals, campaign trafficking and optimization, measurement and reporting, billing and revenue recognition touchpoints, and post-campaign analyses. 

• Manage annual testing plans, sampling methodologies, and testing scripts aligned to regulatory, self-regulatory, contractual, and platform-policy requirements. 

• Lead thematic testing of marketing claims substantiation and restricted categories (e.g., health and wellness, financial services, alcohol), disclosure and native ad labeling, testimonial/influencer compliance, environmental/social claims, and retail price and promotion representations. 

• Establish monitoring for brand safety, viewability, fraud/invalid traffic, and platform policy adherence using ad verification and QA tools; investigate exceptions, escalate issues, and recommend control enhancements. 

• Develop and track corrective action plans; validate remediation; maintain high-quality workpapers and evidence; prepare clear written reports and dashboards communicating testing results, root causes, business impact, and control maturity trends to senior leadership and relevant committees. 

• Coordinate with Global Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management and