Senior Manager, Creative Photography - eCommerce Content Studio

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Photography role is a strategic leadership position that plays a critical role in scaling and elevating our US eCommerce business through world-class visual content. You’ll sweep us off our feet if: · You have deep professional experience in retail and eCommerce photography, including leading high-performing teams · You bring a strong understanding of digital merchandising, customer experience, and visual storytelling · You have demonstrated success setting creative vision and delivering at scale · You are skilled at influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners · You are highly organized, strategic, and able to manage multiple programs simultaneously · You have a track record of building talent, developing teams, and elevating capabilities · You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and are energized by Fortune 1 scale challenges You’ll make an impact by: Leadership & Strategy · Setting the creative photography vision aligned to brand standards and eCommerce business goals · Establishing direction, priorities, and performance standards for photography across programs · Driving brand consistency and elevating the end-to-end customer visual experience · Anticipating industry trends and evolving photography strategies accordingly · Supporting company mission, values, and ethical standards in all business practices Operational Excellence & Delivery · Overseeing photography output and ensuring consistent quality across all programs · Owning team performance, output quality, and key business KPIs · Establishing scalable workflows, tools, and processes to improve efficiency and throughput · Driving continuous improvement across content production and asset management systems Cross-Functional Influence · Partnering with merchandising, marketing, product, and creative teams to align priorities · Influencing senior stakeholders to drive alignment on creative direction and business outcomes · Bringing forward insights, recommendations, and innovative solutions to improve content performance Team Development & Capability Building · Building, mentoring, and developing a high-performing photography team · Creating a strong knowledge base of photography standards, tools, and best practices · Fostering a culture of accountability, creativity, and continuous learning · Adapting to evolving business needs and leading through organizational change Problem Solving & Innovation · Identifying and resolving systemic challenges across photography operations · Leveraging data and insights to improve content quality and business impact · Driving innovation in photography techniques, tools, and workflows The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 3 years' experience in editorial content management or related field OR 5 years' experience in editorial content management or related field.
• Deep professional experience in retail and eCommerce photography, including leading high-performing teams
• Strong understanding of digital merchandising, customer experience, and visual storytelling
• Demonstrated success setting creative vision and delivering at scale
• Skilled at influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners
• Highly organized, strategic, and able to manage multiple programs simultaneously
• Track record of building talent, developing teams, and elevating capabilities
• Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and are energized by Fortune 1 scale challenges

Nice To Haves

• Digital Content Management
• Editorial
• Retail Management
• Supervising Associates
• Working for or with Creative Agencies

Responsibilities

• Setting the creative photography vision aligned to brand standards and eCommerce business goals
• Establishing direction, priorities, and performance standards for photography across programs
• Driving brand consistency and elevating the end-to-end customer visual experience
• Anticipating industry trends and evolving photography strategies accordingly
• Supporting company mission, values, and ethical standards in all business practices
• Overseeing photography output and ensuring consistent quality across all programs
• Owning team performance, output quality, and key business KPIs
• Establishing scalable workflows, tools, and processes to improve efficiency and throughput
• Driving continuous improvement across content production and asset management systems
• Partnering with merchandising, marketing, product, and creative teams to align priorities
• Influencing senior stakeholders to drive alignment on creative direction and business outcomes
• Bringing forward insights, recommendations, and innovative solutions to improve content performance
• Building, mentoring, and developing a high-performing photography team
• Creating a strong knowledge base of photography standards, tools, and best practices
• Fostering a culture of accountability, creativity, and continuous learning
• Adapting to evolving business needs and leading through organizational change
• Identifying and resolving systemic challenges across photography operations
• Leveraging data and insights to improve content quality and business impact
• Driving innovation in photography techniques, tools, and workflows

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Performance-based bonus awards
• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
• Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior