Lead Product Designer – Walmart, Reston, VA
What you'll do
Ready to show off your design skills to a larger audience? Imagine designing a product that will be used by associates and customers across the globe. At Walmart, you can have that opportunity! We design crucial enterprise applications for our 2.3 million associates globally, and we are looking for designers to join our team.
We need your user experience and user interface (UX/UI) expertise to design apps for a diverse set of employees, from merchants and pharmacists to truck drivers and store employees stocking shelves. You will help the design team to empathize with our associates. The right designer will be able to make an impact on our enterprise applications at scale through new product launches and incremental product improvements.
What you'll do
Think visually
Possibility to lead a small group of designers within the team
Provide mentorship to less experienced designers
Translate concepts into customer flows, journey maps, and wireframes
Design and deliver wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for multiple devices and interfaces
Inspire and bring new ideas to the team through staying in the know of current design trends
Design for big data and find solutions that to improve the daily lives of our associates
Participate in design critiques by presenting your work, capturing feedback, and giving constructive feedback on your peer’s work
Work within WM established design guidelines and collaborate with team members to ensure consistency across designs
Provide mentorship to less experienced designers
Understand technical limitations
Produce handoff ready work for tech team, including producing redlines and capturing assets
Work with tech team to ensure designs are being implemented correctly and give feedback
Prepare and present work to team, partners, and leadership
Think conceptually
Apply a user-centered approach to requirements and interdependencies to develop engaging interfaces
Meet with key business and tech partners to collect requirements
Collaborate and brainstorm with team to understand, identify, and take on complex business requirements and user needs
Think empathetically
Conduct user research and facilitate interviews and testing to find end user’s issues and needs
Analyze and interpret your research to inform your designs
Looking for someone who
Is excited to be part of a fun and close-knit team, always learning and collaborating with other designers to deliver a cohesive associate centered experience
Is an excellent teammate
Has a sense of humor
Enjoys coffee / breakfast hangouts and team outings
Wants to be involved in design community within and outside of Walmart
Is passionate and creative
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor Degree and 4 years design experience OR Masters Degree and 3 years design experience OR 6 years design experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Portfolio (include a link or an attachment with your application)
5-7 years experience building efficient scalable systems in enterprise applications, eCommerce, SaaS or a related field
Demonstrated experience building efficient scalable systems in enterprise applications, eCommerce, SaaS or a related field
Demonstrated expertise with industry tools such as Sketch, InVision and Zeplin to develop and communicate experiences
Demonstrated experience working in an Agile development process
Familiarity with HTML/CSS
Demonstrated experience working within brand guidelines
Demonstrated experience working with Material Design
About Walmart Labs
Imagine working in an environment where one experiment can catapult an entire industry toward a smarter future. That’s what we do at Walmart Labs. We’re a team of 5,000+ software engineers, data scientists, designers and product managers within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and our enterprise operates.