Senior Manager, Creative- Senior Brand Design Lead

Position: (USA) Senior Manager, Creative- Senior Brand Design Lead
Position Summary...

We are seeking a self-starting and experienced Senior Design Lead to spearhead design efforts across Walmart Brand campaign teams. You will be responsible for applying and maintaining consistency of the 'visual world' for our brand, ensuring our stories, voice, and business come to life cohesively. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in brand development, design, advertising, and art direction.

This Senior Design Lead will be responsible for crafting strategy-based big ideas rooted in human truths and translating them into experiences, designing systems that can connect a networked narrative, maintaining brand guidelines, and building identities across a wide variety of platforms. The ideal candidate has in-house, and agency experience bringing a blend of strong leadership skills and hands-on creative expertise, with a love for visual storytelling and driving a brand forward.

What you'll do...

Strategic Leadership

* Define and drive the creative vision for design systems aligned with overall brand strategy and business objectives.

* Exhibit outstanding creative judgment, consistently raising the creative bar and pushing work beyond advertising into culture.

* Proactively identify problems and opportunities to extend campaigns.

* Act as an informed design expert and trusted partner to Creative Directors, providing recommendations that uphold brand integrity.

Team Management

* Collaborate with senior leadership, marketing, production, and internal/external partners (including agencies) to implement design systems and extend creative elements for seasonal campaigns.

* Identify ways to improve workflow efficiency and speed.

* Interpret marketing briefs, ask clarifying questions, and consider all aspects of projects-concept, bandwidth, team needs, deadlines, and audience.

Brand Cohesion & Craft

* Lead design direction and development of creative elements, including:

* Graphic design

* Branding and identity development

* Typography

* Design systems

* Digital and site design

* Motion design

* Maintain a holistic view of the brand while perfecting details.

* Ensure consistent implementation of visual identity guidelines and best practices for brand attribution and impact.

Trend Awareness

* Stay current on industry, cultural, and technology trends.

* Apply practical AI tools in design execution and bring fresh, relevant references to shape creative work.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in graphic design, advertising, or related field.

* 5+ years of experience in brand design for digital and physical experiences.

* Exceptional portfolio demonstrating taste, judgment, and craft, with proven success in creating brand identities and design systems for large-scale enterprises.

* Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and Figma.

* Bonus:

Experience with Cinema 4D, After Effects, and other 3D/motion design software.

* Strong communication skills with a positive, solution-oriented, and collaborative approach.

* Ability to present concepts and campaign strategies through comps, storyboards, and visual narratives to influence decisions.

* Experience leading brand design work in fast-paced, high-stakes environments (in-house or agency).

Why Join Us

* Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

* Opportunities for professional growth within a global industry leader.

* Dynamic, collaborative environment with a thrilling mission: make Walmart relevant to every American consumer through world-class creativity and execution.

* If you are a visionary with big ideas, compelling stories, and strategic craft-and ready to help build the best in-house creative agency for the biggest name in retail-we want to hear from you.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus 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…