The Role
Design and evolve enterprise design system components, tokens, patterns, themes, documentation, and libraries for scalable digital products. Lead roadmap initiatives, prototype rapidly, gather stakeholder feedback, and collaborate closely with engineering to align design and code. Promote accessible, AI-assisted workflows, support design system governance, facilitate design thinking, and mentor colleagues while helping product teams deliver consistent, intuitive experiences.
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Position Summary...What you'll do...
As a Senior Designer on the Global Design Systems team, you’ll 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’ll bring clarity to complexity—translating design decisions into scalable tokens and reusable patterns that drive consistency and innovation. You’ll 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. In this role, you will support associates by delivering systems that enable faster, more confident decision-making, contributing to seamless and efficient user experiences throughout Walmart’s extensive ecosystem.
What you'll do:
What you'll bring:
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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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 length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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As a Senior Designer on the Global Design Systems team, you’ll 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’ll bring clarity to complexity—translating design decisions into scalable tokens and reusable patterns that drive consistency and innovation. You’ll 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. In this role, you will support associates by delivering systems that enable faster, more confident decision-making, contributing to seamless and efficient user experiences throughout Walmart’s extensive ecosystem.
What you'll do:
- Designing at a high level of craft for a broad population of users.
- Leading a roadmap of work and collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners through delivery.
- Actively soliciting feedback from peers and cross-functional stakeholders through the product design lifecycle.
- Eagerness to support, bringing a service mindset to daily user questions and feedback.
- Championing AI-native ways of working
- Engaging the design research team at the right points during the design process to ensure the right insights inform the work.
- Rapid prototyping and experimenting in a fast-paced environment.
- Communicating effectively with kindness and empathy.
- Collaborating seamlessly with cross-functional partners.
What you'll bring:
- Strong understanding of enterprisescale design systems, including tokens, patterns, components, theming and 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 (e.g., JSON, CSS variables)
- Builds and maintains system libraries—with an eye toward generative UX and AI-assisted design workflows.
- Actively contributes to design system governance
- Uses systems thinking to simplify complexity and create intuitive, scalable solutions.
- Facilitates Design Thinking to unlock creativity and alignment across cross-functional teams.
- Embraces ambiguity and energizes teams through change.
- Leads by example—mentoring, doing, and shaping team culture.
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 https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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 length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock
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Minimum Qualifications...Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no 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’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area. Option 2: 5 years’ experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area.Preferred Qualifications...Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Design certification (for example, IDEOU - Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate), Driving product development in a user experience area, Master's degree in UI/UX Design, Interactive and Visual Design, Product Design, or related area, Related industry experience (for example, retail, supply chain, eCommerce, healthcare), UI/UX, Interactive and Visual Design, Electronics Art, Multimedia Design, or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.Primary Location...1601 SE 10th St, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in UI/UX design, graphic design, visual communication, product design, computer science, information technology, or a related area, plus 3 years of experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronic art, multimedia design, or a related area
- 5 years of experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronic art, multimedia design, or a related area
- Design certification, such as IDEOU Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate
- Experience driving product development in a user experience area
- Master's degree in UI/UX Design, Interactive and Visual Design, Product Design, or a related area
- Related industry experience, such as retail, supply chain, eCommerce, or healthcare
- Experience creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing WCAG 2.2 AA standards and assistive technologies
Walmart Global Tech Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Walmart Global Tech and has not been reviewed or approved by Walmart Global Tech.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation packages typically include base pay, performance bonuses, and stock awards, with access to an employee stock purchase plan. Feedback suggests annual bonus structures and stock grants are a consistent part of total compensation in many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a company 401(k) match and stock purchase options that support long‑term savings. Feedback suggests these programs are a notable strength within the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family benefits feature paid parental leave and adoption assistance, alongside tax‑advantaged accounts for healthcare spending. Feedback suggests these supports contribute meaningfully to perceived total rewards value.
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The Company
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
