Walmart is hiring: Staff, UX Designer - Data Ventures in Oakland

Position Summary

We're building Walmart Data Ventures from the ground up, and high-quality Product Design is critical to our foundation. Our disruptive data products serve millions of customers, suppliers, and associates across our unique user ecosystem. Join our mission of crafting world-class data experiences with them, for them.

As a Staff Product Designer, Platform, you'll lead design for our Platform team, charged with building the connective tissue across our suite of commercial data products. We work hard to understand the people we're designing for, and to deliver useful and usable products that delight. If you're motivated by solving complex problems alongside some of the brightest folks in the industry, then this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, User Experience, Visual Communications, or other related field, with 7-9 years of professional experience, or Master's Degree in related field with 5-7 years of professional experience, or 10+ years of professional experience
• A portfolio showcasing shipped design work, preferably in high-complexity industries like finance, healthcare, big data, or other enterprise areas
• Deep understanding of design thinking methodologies and user- / human-centered product design and development
• Track record for turning ambiguity and complexity into effective design solutions
• Ability to leverage the "superpowers" of design (visualization, rapid prototyping, pressure testing ideas early and often) to influence product + business direction
• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in UI/UX design, graphic design, visual communication, product design, computer science, information technology, or related area and 4 years' experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area
• 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

Responsibilities

• You'll work across functions and stakeholder groups, contributing your deep knowledge of the user- / human-centered design process to deliver successful outcomes for our users and our business
• Define and drive our platform design vision, strategy, and approach, impacting across our full product portfolio
• Act as a key contributor to our design language and system, identifying and designing high-value, platform-level patterns and components to be used across our suite of products
• Design at the appropriate fidelity - use frameworks, sketches, diagrams, user flows, information architecture, wireframes, and prototypes to communicate and pressure test our ideas
• Use your expertise of design thinking methodologies to facilitate effective cross-functional conversations and workshops, gather and give shape to ideas from our partner teams, and rapidly build prototypes for further testing and iteration
• Drive design consistency across our platform of products, in close collaboration with Engineering
• Collaborate closely with our cross-functional partners in Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and beyond, to ensure we're getting the best out of our teams, maintaining alignment, and translating Walmart's complex data foundation into high-value products
• Act as a leader within our growing Product Design organization, sharing knowledge, mentoring on best practices, shaping our culture, and helping the team stay up to date on how today's high-performing design teams operate

Benefits

• Beyond competitive pay, this role is eligible to receive incentive awards based on performance
• Other great perks include 401(k) match, employee stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more
• 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
• Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart

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