Senior Director, UX Design

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Senior Design Director, Data & Advertising Experiences

About the Team

Our team is designing the future of retail to improve the lives of millions of Americans. We create richly compelling experiences for customers – whether they are at home, in our stores, or on the go. We power these experiences with the enterprise software our merchants, suppliers, and sellers use to offer our customers the best items and services at great value. We also design the consumer-grade tools our 1.2 million employees in our stores and supply chain use every day. Our mission is to bring dignity and access through design excellence to everyone.

The Senior Design Director for the Data & Advertising Experiences plays a critical strategic role. This senior leader will create the comprehensive design strategy for how our business and finance teams cull insights and understand trends to derive and articulate internal strategic omnichannel forecasts. This leader will also grow and evolve our advertising platform that helps brands and businesses connect with our customers in store and online increasing their presence and sales at Walmart. In addition to being a thought partner to our business, engineering, and product partners, this leader will set the standards for easy use and modeling in our forecasting, planning, and advertising tools, and link different software packages together to establish a unified data approach. This leader will also strategically partner with other teams to create awareness and seamless connections to our advertising platform across Walmart’s many offerings for brands and businesses.  This role includes leadership of several strategic data-centric and advertising products and tools, design direction to create a seamless experience across the portfolio, and growth of teams of designers in this area. This leader is a member of the Senior Leadership Team for the Design organization at Walmart, and will influence the entire Design portfolio in addition to running their business.

As the Senior Design Director, you will employ your depth of knowledge and experience designing data-rich enterprise software and services to make the complex simple, clear, and trusted. You’ll demonstrate your natural curiosity to listen, understand, and draw out insights from research and analytics to improve how your portfolio of data and advertising products grow and evolve. While diving into the interaction patterns and business processes of today, you’ll be able to imagine and articulate improved future states of those products through design. You’ll bring your great strengths in storytelling to present your vision and product design rationale in a compelling, convincing manner to the wider team. While working with partners to determine a shared plan forward that balances business and technology considerations, you will create and champion an experience that is highly engaging and usable and deliver pixel-perfect detailed design with your team.

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 Senior Design Director, Data & Advertising Experiences at Walmart could be the fit you’ve been looking for. 

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

• Ability to define and advocate for a design vision and follow through with a plan on how to deliver against it
• Track record of shipping high impact products in a fast-moving and changing environment – one that celebrates experimentation, iteration, and shipping
• Built and led multi-disciplinary teams of designer, writers, and researchers while creating a strong design culture
• Experience leading product design process and building strong cross-functional partnerships
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills and a keen understanding of trends in the marketplace for data tools and visualization
• A strong strategic mindset and a systems thinking approach
• A skilled change maker who is not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• A deep understanding of data and enterprise software
• A high bar for quality, and can set new standards for design delivery
• Ability to communicate concepts in a clear and compelling way to audiences of all levels of understanding and levels of seniority
• 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:

• Driving the design strategy and delivering on the future vision of our data-rich strategic products and services, with a strong focus on advertising tools
• Partnering with the business, engineering, and product partners to create a compelling vision that will inform the roadmap our forecasting and advertising software and services
• Owning and delivering all phases of product design work across the portfolio (these include defining the north star, distilling research, design ideation, prototyping, final spec design, implementation)
• Leading your team in a way that nurtures the unique strengths of each member 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 or higher in a Design related field and 15 years of experience in product design, with at least 8 years managing teams of managers and individual contributors.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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.

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

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.

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

The annual salary range for this position is $208,000.00-$416,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Stock equity incentives

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 7 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area. Option 2: 9 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area.
4 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

Primary Location...

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

Salary : $208,000 - $416,000