Manager, Creative - Sr. Designer

Manager, Creative - Sr. Designer

Overview: Walmart Connect is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and highly creative Senior Designer to join our Lightbox Creative Solutions team. Reporting directly to the Art Director, you'll help shape high impact, omnichannel marketing and advertising campaigns for Walmart Connect advertisers. This is a unique opportunity to influence and execute innovative campaigns that reach millions of customers across digital, social, and in-store channels. You'll work closely with the Art Director, creative strategists, copywriters, and cross-functional partners to bring visual concepts to life that support business goals and deliver exceptional brand experiences. You possess both practical skills and conceptual thinking abilities, with a thorough understanding of storytelling, branding, and retail media environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate creative briefs and strategic insights into compelling visual concepts and executions.
• Collaborate with copywriters, creative strategists, and other designers to ideate and produce omnichannel campaigns across digital, mobile, social, and in-store platforms.
• Contribute to campaign development from initial concept through final execution, ensuring deliverables meet brand standards and creative excellence.
• Provide design support for multiple projects simultaneously, adapting to shifting priorities and feedback in a fast-paced environment.
• Partner closely with the Art Director to align on design direction, campaign consistency, and best practices.
• Stay up to date on current design trends, retail marketing innovations, and consumer behavior to bring fresh thinking to the team.
• Incorporate and maintain both Walmart's brand guidelines and advertiser brand standards in all creative outputs.
• Work with production teams to prepare files for final delivery and ensure pixel-perfect execution.

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in design, preferably in an in-house agency, advertising agency, or retail media network.
• BA/BFA in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Advertising, or related field.
• A portfolio that demonstrates conceptually strong, strategically grounded, and beautifully crafted work across digital and integrated channels.
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign); Figma proficiency required. Motion experience (After Effects) is a plus.
• Experience designing for web, mweb, and app with a strong understanding of UX/UI and shopper behavior.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to receive and incorporate feedback constructively.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.

Primary Location: 850 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066-3031, United States of America