Manager, Creative - Art Director, Brand Campaigns, Experiences

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About us: Walmart Creative Studio (WCS) is the in-house creative agency for Walmart. Our team develops breakthrough and distinctive omnichannel brand design systems that meet customer needs and drive business objectives while keeping our Fortune #1 brand relevant in culture. We use creativity and design to make Walmart an obvious choice for all.

We are positioned as an internal creative agency hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels, categories, campaigns, and touchpoints. We are ruthlessly focused on our customers, insight-driven creative strategies, and integrated solutions that build the brand and grow the business.

We value talent, diversity, innovation, curiosity, collaboration, culture, insights, and results, and we are committed to helping all people save money and live better.

Overview:

The Art Director, Brand Campaigns, Experiences role will support the Walmart Creative Studio in concept through execution for brand campaigns that translate across multiple channels, but are firmly rooted in social-first thinking and execution. Our ideal candidate must be a strategically minded problem solver, conceptual thinker and able to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. They should be organized, detail-oriented and exhibit outstanding creative judgement while dreaming big and pushing boundaries.

In this role, the Art Director will partner with a Copywriter and work alongside creative leadership to connect the overarching marketing strategy, experiential strategy, and execute campaign content at the scale of Walmart and the speed of culture. This role works collaboratively with other team leads (within creative & cross-functionally) and focuses primarily on experiential brand campaigns but will flex onto other 360 campaign work as needed. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaboration: Ideate, create, and execute culturally relevant creative work. Work cross-functionally with marketing, operations, strategy and production teams, as well as external partners where needed, to ensure creative cohesion at every touchpoint.
  • Build trust and effective relationships with key partners in a large, highly matrixed organization.
  • Assist creative leadership and marketing pitch decks to gain alignment setting the team up for success.
  • Manage projects, growth, and development of mid and junior level creatives.
  • Self-directed / critical thinker
  • Expert in social platforms and best practices
  • Pursue ways that we can work better, faster.
  • Manage projects that are on-brief and on-brand, mitigating feedback, ultimately keeping workstreams on track.

• Trend Analysis: Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, culture and consumer behaviors to inform creative decisions and maintain our brand’s competitive edge.
• Quality Assurance: Maintain high standards of quality and craft throughout the conceptual and execution process, ensuring that the final work meets or exceeds expectations.
  • Attend & oversee production and post-production as needed.
  • Ability to design assets and brand campaigns as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, advertising, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in professional advertising agency Art Direction experience, with at least 2 years management experience.
• Exceptional portfolio featuring big campaign ideas and experiential-first executions
• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools and software including the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Google Slides, Slack and Figma.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate external agency partners and connect across Walmart Creative Studio.
• Clearly articulates vision and provides contextual feedback.
• Organized with diligent follow-through on every task.
• Excellent written, communication and presentation skills.

Reporting:

• Reports to Senior Art Director Creative Director, Experiential

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.

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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.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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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.

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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.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $96,000.00-$186,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- 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.

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 1 year's experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field OR 3 years' experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Content Management Systems, Managing interactive projects in an online creative or related digital field, Working for or with creative agencies, Working with Design Software (For example, Adobe Creative Suite), including proficiency in advanced functions (For example, multi-layer masking and compositing)

Primary Location...

221 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America