Walmart is hiring: (USA) Director, Creative in Bentonville
New Yesterday
Position Summary Sam’s Club is elevating its creative standards and design excellence—and we need a Director of Creative Design to lead the way. This role goes beyond asset management; it’s about shaping a cohesive, innovative design vision that inspires teams and resonates with millions of members. You’ll champion generative AI adoption, ensure design consistency across all touchpoints, and bring a retail-savvy approach to every campaign. If you’re a hands-on design leader with a passion for innovation and collaboration, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.
What You’ll Do Set the Standard for Design Excellence: Establish and maintain design guidelines that ensure consistency and elevate the quality of creative work across all channels.
Elevate Day-to-Day Creative: Improve the impact of promotional design by introducing best-in-class practices and tools, resulting in measurable engagement lift.
Champion Generative AI: Develop and implement a roadmap for integrating Gen AI into creative workflows, training and inspiring the team to adopt AI-driven design solutions.
Deliver Retail-Centric Creative: Launch at least three major retail-focused campaigns that showcase design innovation and drive conversion metrics.
Build and Mentor a High-Performing Team: Coach and develop designers to achieve 90%+ performance goal attainment, fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration.
Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with Marketing Strategy, Category Management, and external agencies to deliver cohesive, brand-aligned creative solutions.
What You’ll Bring Design Leadership Expertise: 8+ years in design direction (agency or in-house), with experience elevating design standards and leading creative innovation.
Retail Experience: Proven ability to create impactful design for retail environments and promotional campaigns.
Generative AI Vision: Familiarity with AI-driven design tools and strategies, with a passion for innovation.
Hands-On Approach: Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to guide design execution while inspiring your team.
Collaboration Skills: Strong communicator who thrives in cross-functional and agency partnerships.
People Development: Track record of mentoring and building high-performing design teams.
At Sam's Club, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet! Our benefits include medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance, as well as paid time off, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00-$220,000.00, with additional compensation including annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 7 years' experience leading creative teams OR 9 years' experience leading creative teams.
Preferred Qualifications Managing Brand Initiatives for Product Launches, Managing Budgets, Including Budget Forecasting and Reporting Financials, Managing cross-functional teams in a retail creative environment, Managing large scale interactive campaigns in an online creative or related digital field, Managing Vendor Contracts and Relationships, Working for or with creative agencies.
Primary Location 2101 Se Simple Savings Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712-4304, United States of America.
Walmart 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. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates.
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- Location:
- Bentonville
- Job Type:
- FullTime