Overview
As a Senior Designer on the Global Design Systems team at Walmart, you will help shape the foundational building blocks that power product experiences across millions of users. Your focus will be on creating modern, high-performing components, maintaining the system's visual and interaction foundations, and ensuring design-to-code alignment through close collaboration with engineering.
You will bring clarity to complexity, translating design decisions into scalable tokens and reusable patterns that drive consistency and innovation. You will contribute to a system that empowers product teams to build faster, better, and more accessible experiences, while advancing how AI and automation streamline workflows for designers and developers alike.
About the Team
The Global Design Systems team develops and maintains standards that enhance experiences across Walmart's products and services worldwide. This team creates engaging digital solutions for customers, associates, and partners in various environments, including home, stores, and mobile platforms. Their work spans a broad portfolio, from consumer-facing platforms to supply chain applications.
What You'll Do
- •Design at a high level of craft for a broad population of users
- •Lead a roadmap of work and collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional partners through delivery
- •Actively solicit feedback from peers and cross-functional stakeholders through the product design lifecycle
- •Bring a service mindset to daily user questions and feedback
- •Champion AI-native ways of working
- •Engage the design research team at the right points during the design process to ensure the right insights inform the work
- •Rapid prototype and experiment in a fast-paced environment
- •Communicate effectively with kindness and empathy
- •Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional partners
What You'll Bring
- •Strong understanding of enterprise-scale design systems, including tokens, patterns, components, theming, usage documentation, and system-compliant AI context management
- •Experience in AI-native tools like Cursor, Claude, or similar
- •Familiarity with engineering workflows, versioning, and how design tokens translate into code such as JSON and CSS variables
- •Ability to build and maintain system libraries with an eye toward generative UX and AI-assisted design workflows
- •Active contribution to design system governance
- •Systems thinking to simplify complexity and create intuitive, scalable solutions
- •Ability to facilitate Design Thinking to unlock creativity and alignment across cross-functional teams
- •Comfort embracing ambiguity and energizing teams through change
- •Leadership by example through mentoring, doing, and shaping team culture
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 3 years of experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area
- •Option 2: 5 years of experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area
Preferred Qualifications
- •Design certification such as IDEOU Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate
- •Master's degree in UI/UX Design, Interactive and Visual Design, Product Design, or related area
- •Experience driving product development in a user experience area
- •Related industry experience in retail, supply chain, eCommerce, or healthcare
- •Knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and inclusive digital experience design
Compensation
- •Annual salary range: $90,000 to $180,000
- •Additional annual or quarterly performance bonuses
- •Stock compensation
- •Health benefits including medical, vision, and dental coverage
- •401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance
- •Paid time off including PTO, parental leave, family care leave, and bereavement
- •Short-term and long-term disability
- •Company discounts and other benefits
- •Live Better U: Walmart-paid education benefit covering tuition, books, and fees for programs from high school completion to bachelor's degrees
Location
1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America