About the position
Join our award-winning design team and help us shape the future of retail. Our mission is to bring dignity and access to all through design excellence to all regardless of zip code or bank account. We design richly compelling experiences that improve the daily lives of millions of customers - whether they are at home, in our stores, or on the go. We also craft world-class experiences that enable our merchants, suppliers, sellers and 2.1 million in-store associates to deliver great value to our customers on a daily basis. The Data Experiences design system team builds and maintains a sub system and standards for data centric tools that are used in products and services at Walmart, which enhance the lives of millions of Americans. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to equip our design, product, and engineering partners with a system that enables them to move faster, and with more confidence, a design role at Walmart could be what you've been looking for. As a Senior UX Designer for design systems, you'll be an integral part of driving inclusive, scalable, and useful solutions to a broad set of teams, transforming complex information and tasks into easy-to-use patterns for millions of customers and associates. To do this, you'll create scalable solutions that balance business, technology, and brand considerations. You will create and champion an experience that is highly engaging, usable and deliver pixel-perfect detailed designs. You will build relationships with your product, engineering, and design partners to evangelize the power of design systems and embed them across the organization. In addition, there are opportunities help on conventional feature driven work from time to time, so you can see through patterns and help connect them into workflows for launch. 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 a Senior UX Designer for design systems at Walmart could be the fit you've been looking for.
Responsibilities
- Crafting the best experiences for millions of Walmart users and customers.
- Driving projects and collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners through delivery.
- Helping create the experience strategy and setting the design direction that delivers on the user needs and business goals.
- Partnering with design research to create insightful design solutions.
- Constantly balancing business goals with user needs.
- Actively soliciting feedback from peers and cross-functional stakeholders through the product design lifecycle.
- Rapid prototyping and experimenting in a fast-paced environment.
- Multitasking across different projects and adapting to changing priorities.
- Advocating the Design Thinking philosophy throughout the business.
- Communicating effectively with kindness and empathy.
- Collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrated ability to receive feedback and improve over time.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in UI/UX design, graphic design, visual communication, product design, computer science, information technology, or related area and 3 years' experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area.
- 5 years' experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area if no degree.
- A strong understanding of design system that includes design patterns, components, and guidelines.
- A collaborative mindset to influence cross-functional teams, such as engineering, product and design to ensure consistent design across all touchpoints.
- Strategic and tactical points of view to maintain and build design guidelines, such as style guides, pattern libraries, and components that ensure consistency in visual design, interaction design, and user experience.
- A vested interest in the governance of our design system, providing feedback on designs submitted by other teams to ensure alignment with the design system.
- A strategic mindset and a system thinking approach to taking the complex and make it simple.
- Ability to produce great work in short timeframes, multi-task across different projects and platforms and adapt to the ever-changing priorities of the business.
- Experience facilitating Design Thinking in your cross-functional teams.
- Comfort with ambiguity. You embrace constraints and the unknown; you help discover and define the problem space.
- A growth mindset and keen sense of curiosity, always looking to improve things and new ways to do so.
- Find joy in leading by doing. You inspire, coach, and contribute to our team culture.
Nice-to-haves
- Degree in HCI, Information Architecture, Digital Design, Graphic Design or similar and 2+ years of experience in UX design.
- Have a fantastic portfolio of thoughtful design solutions.
- Experience creating and/or maintaining a design system.
- Domain experience in data, analytics, or AI tools and a keen eye towards industry trends.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
Benefits
- Competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards.
- Health benefits including medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits including 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits including PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- Live Better U education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates.
