Designer Lead

Design Lead - Design Systems

The Design Systems team builds and maintains a family of systems and standards that are used in products and services across Walmart, enhancing the lives of millions of Americans. We create richly compelling digital experiences for customers and our associates - whether they are at home, in our stores, or on the go. At Walmart, design systems are used across a diverse and expansive portfolio, from our primary consumer experiences to the apps our supply chain teams use to move items around the world. 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 Design Lead, 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 and usable and deliver pixel-perfect detailed designs. You will build relationships with your product, engineering, and brand partners to evangelize the power of design systems and embed them across the organization.

You'll sweep us off our feet if you have:

• A deep understanding of design system that includes design patterns, components, and guidelines.
• A collaborative mindset to influence cross-functional teams, such as engineering, Marketing, and Brand 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 Walmart's 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 and ability to motive teams and partners.
• Find joy in leading by doing. You inspire, coach, and contribute to our team culture.
• A self-starter mindset who is well organized and always looking to improve things.

You'll make an impact by:

• Designing at the highest level of craft for a broad population of Walmart customers.
• Leading a program of work and collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners through delivery.
• Creating the experience strategy and setting the design direction for the program that delivers on the user needs and business goals.
• Actively soliciting feedback from peers and cross-functional stakeholders though 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.
• Multitasking across different projects and adapting to changing priorities.
• Creating scalable experiences in partnership with our Design System team.
• Working with our Design System team to expand the component library.
• Championing the Design Thinking philosophy throughout the business.
• Communicating effectively with kindness and empathy.
• Collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners.
• Staying up to date with the latest trends, in and out of retail.

Preferred qualifications:

• Degree in HCI, Information Architecture, Digital Design, or similar and at least 5-7 years of experience in product design.
• Have a fantastic portfolio of elegant design solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

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.

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

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

The annual salary range for this position is $112,000.00-$192,000.00

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 4 years' experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area. Option 2: 6 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

Primary Location...

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