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Art Director - Entertainment, Electronics and Toys
Walmart
San Bruno, CA, United States
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Position Description
Walmart is looking for an Art Director to join our fun, progressive, rapidly growing e-commerce business. This successful candidate will work together with a talented and motivated team of digital designers to create fluid e-commerce solution. We are looking for a talented Art Director who can push the limits of design, think outside of the box, and have a solid understanding of user experience.
Creative Responsibilities:
•Explore trends and competitive landscape and incorporate appropriate use of color, type, tone and editorial style in digital design standards.
•Develop subject matter expertise and champion unique character of their specific customer/merchandise focus areas.
•Participate in productive brainstorming sessions that result in concrete ideas for execution.
•Design and deliver strategic creative initiatives, targeting business objective(s) while ensuring compliance with brand standards and timeline requirements.
•Assist in reviews, approvals and communications to design and production teams regarding versions and extensions of strategic concepts to ensure projects are delivered with brand compliance.
•Work closely with UI design, IT development, Product and Project teams to ensure flawless integration with back-end technology and a great user experience.
•Mentor, share and supervise digital design expertise with designers.
• Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments
• Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
• Ensures consistent application of the online brand and brand voice
• Facilitates improvements in the creative process
• Manages small to mid-sized creative projects from concept to completion under the guidance of management
• Manages the implementation of the design strategy under the guidance of senior creative management
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates
Minimum Qualifications
•Bachelor of Fine Arts degree required with emphasis on interactive design, graphic design or communications or equivalent work experience.
•Superior knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
•4-5+ years of interactive design experience in:
-Developing digital designs, concepts and templates.
-Collaborating with design and editorial teams.
-Communicating with business partners.
•Strong communication and people skills.
•Strong project and time-management skills – able to balance and prioritize project workload and adjust to shifting business needs/priorities.
•Excellent design sense and ability to articulate design concepts to business partners and design team.
•Presentation abilities – able to communicate design concepts clearly and effectively.
•3+ years of management experience necessary.
•Understanding of components, cycle times, production and distribution requirements of digital creative deliverables.
Bachelor s degree in Design, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 2 years experience in creative project management, including graphic design OR 5 years experience in creative project management, including graphic design.
Additional Preferred Qualifications
1 year experience managing brand initiatives for product launches.
1 year experience managing design teams in a retail creative environment.
1 year experience working for or with creative agencies.
2 years experience developing design concepts in a retail or marketing environment.
2 years experience managing small- to mid-scale interactive campaigns in an online creative or related digital field.
2 years of supervisory experience.
Company Summary
The Walmart eCommerce team is rapidly innovating to evolve and define the future state of shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, we are on a mission to help people save money and live better. With the help of some of the brightest minds in technology, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, talent and more, we are reimagining the intersection of digital and physical shopping to help achieve that mission.