Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Principal Product UX Designer - Ecommerce
About the Team
The Walmart Design team crafts experiences and designs the websites, tools, and mobile solutions for millions of customers and associates. As a part of the Product Design team that is at the forefront of retail, you will be responsible for building best-in-class experiences that drive continuous improvement and innovation on the world’s largest company. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to build the future of commerce and consumer services, a Design role at Walmart could be what you’ve been looking for.
As a Principal Product UX Designer on the Ecommerce team, you'll lead design for one or more key parts of the Walmart.com and mobile app shopping experiences and continually iterate on and evolve features and functionality our customers use most. You’ll integrate business needs into design strategy and own activities and deliverables for multiple projects and engagements. You’ll be an indispensable individual contributor, modeling leadership in problem-solving, design craft excellence, coaching others, communicating effectively with team and partners, and delivering very strong work on time.
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.
You’ll sweep us off our feet if you have...
- A strong visual and interaction design aesthetic that ties brand expressions and systems thinking together.
- Mastery of a wide spectrum of design disciplines, with visual design being your strong suit.
- A track record of shipping successful products in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- A strategic mindset and a system thinking approach to take the complex and make it simple.
- Expertise to explore a variety of design ideas and iterate quickly.
- Excellent presentation and storytelling skills. You know how to articulate a persuasive vision, share your loosely held strong opinions, and present your design and rationale in a compelling, convincing narrative.
- Experience facilitating design sprints, workshops, or research sessions.
- Comfort with ambiguity. You embrace constraints and the unknown; you enjoy discovering and defining the problem space.
- Ability to motivate, influence and inspire teams and partners. You find joy in leading by doing. You foster and contribute to a good team culture.
- A growth mindset and keen sense of curiosity, always looking to improve things and new ways to do so.
- A genuine way to connect with people, you are good at communicating, listening, and sharing, with kindness, humility, and empathy.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Crafting human centered experiences for millions of Walmart customers and associates.
- Leading the end-to-end design process and working closely with business partners, engineers, product managers, and researchers to ship impactful products and services.
- Creating user-centered design strategy and solutions that deliver on the user needs and business goals.
- Actively soliciting feedback from peers and cross-functional stakeholders through the product design lifecycle.
- Engaging the design research team at the right points during the design process to ensure the right insights inform the work
- Rapid prototyping and experimenting in a fast-paced environment.
- Efficiently organizing, managing, and adapting to changing priorities.
- Creating scalable experiences in partnership with our Design System team.
- Championing the Design Thinking philosophy throughout the business.
Minimal qualifications:
- Degree in HCI, graphic design, visual communication, Digital Design, Information Architecture, or similar and at least 7 years of experience in product design.
- A fantastic portfolio.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Interest, if not experience, in healthcare and e-commerce domains.
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.
Perks and Benefits
Beyond competitive pay, 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.
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At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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.
The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00-$286,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
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 5 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area. Option 2: 7 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area.
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, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Masters: Architecture, Masters: Artificial Intelligence, Masters: Business, Masters: Cognitive Science, Masters: Computer Science
Primary Location...
850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America
Top Skills
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
