Designer Lead

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a part of Walmart Global Tech, you’ll design digital products that deliver exceptional experiences for Walmart associates. The tools that we build digitally enable users, improve efficiency, and help our fellow associates make more data-informed decisions for their teams and the business. If you are the type of person who enjoys solving complex problems, operates with intention, delivers for the user, knows how to build trust and strong relationships, and advocates for the success of the entire team - then our Lead Designer position could be for you. The ideal candidate will be an experienced UX/UI Design leader, who can communicate design recommendations, execute design ideas, lead discussions, and manage stakeholder relationships.

As a Lead Designer, you’ll set the vision for the best customer experience and create a space for cross-functional colleagues to collaborate. You will use your knowledge of the Design Thinking process to collaborate with partner teams, facilitate conversations, create concepts, run design sprints, and build rapid prototypes to leverage the collective creativity. You’ll employ your great strengths in storytelling to present your vision and product design rationale in a compelling, convincing manner to cross-functional partners and the leadership 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 usable before delivering pixel-perfect designs.

About the Team:
We are dedicated to making Walmart the preferred retail destination for consumers. We believe that great design is about more than just making things look good, and our team exemplifies this philosophy. We create beautiful, engaging, and accessible experiences for everyone. Whether they are designing for traditional platforms or emerging channels, their design formula is almost always simple; it is a space where intuitive usability produces satisfying results. This user-centric design approach is one of the reasons why Walmart customers return again and again.

What you'll do:

• Bring curiosity and dedication to solving problems and delivering value for our users
• Leverage design best practices when creating user flows, mockups, prototypes, workshop documents, and hand-off files
• Use various communication methods to convey data-driven design decisions, document design engagements, share information, and work towards alignment and mutual understanding
• Define vision and strategies for each project through domain expertise, internal and external best practices, and by identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation
• Build collaborative relationships with key partners by driving priorities aligned to business goals, communicating and prioritizing design efforts, and gaining buy-in from executive leadership
• Providing overall design direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs
• Build a team environment by collaborating closely within our team and cross-functionally with our partners across the business
• Mentor Senior Designers, Associate Designers, Designers and Apprentice Designers in UX/UI design methodology and principles as well as providing guidance on project-based design tasks
• Work quickly and efficiently without sacrificing quality and knowing how to adapt to the ever-changing priorities of the Omnichannel business. Capable of working on multiple projects concurrently in a fast-paced environment, ensuring that quality deliverables are achieved on time.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry news and developments.
• Contribute to team processes and standards to help establish best practices for design & research.
• Bring exceptional communication & presentation skills, both written and verbal.

What you'll bring:

• You have a servant leader mentality
• You are a self-starter and relentless problem solver
• You enjoy collaborating, learning, and growing with a team
• You are passionate, driven, and humble in your approach
• You like digging into data and doing some analysis
• You are excited about solving complex challenges
• You are customer-centric in spirit and in execution
• You have a “test and learn” mentality and an agile way of working to improve your team’s products
• You thrive on both finding and leading the way
• You are comfortable influencing others, leading teams, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly
• You have a deep understanding of the product design process and experience collaborating with other researchers, designers, content strategists, product managers, and engineers to help transform complex problems into easy-to-use products.
• You are Adaptable and have a growth mindset, seeking out and welcoming feedback from senior leaders and managers.
• You can produce great work in short timeframes, multi-task across different projects and platforms and adapt to the ever-changing priorities of the business.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
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, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

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