Staff UX Designer

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Staff UX Designer drives user experience solutions, strategy, and consistency across a portfolio of projects. The role translates business needs into actions and roadmaps; evaluates project scope; and designs scalable, reliable, extensible, and maintainable user experience frameworks while balancing resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity. The designer directs project team members in selecting research methods and oversees the creation of frameworks, process flows, site maps, wireframes, and prototypes that support merchandising, business, marketing, and branding objectives. The role develops flexible design frameworks and patterns, presents designs for review, collaborates with Engineering leads to assess solutions, supervises detailed specifications, and reviews project requirements documents to ensure accurate design translation.

The designer advances experience strategy and innovation by assessing the competitive landscape, analyzing trends and forecasts, creating artifacts that describe current conditions and proposed solutions, and developing transitional roadmaps or clarifying existing frameworks. The role presents recommendations across the organization to build strategic alignment and encourage change. In collaboration with Engineering Architects, the designer formulates project needs and success measures, develops near-term strategies with longer-term portfolio evolution in mind, analyzes user tasks, designs workflows, participates in usability and brainstorming sessions, and presents decisions to senior leadership.

The role also improves UX tools, documentation, and processes; recommends and governs site-standard evolution; incorporates feedback and industry research; reviews projects against best practices; and guides the creation of patterns and styles. It applies user discovery methods and knowledge of consumption trends, analyzes existing data, anticipates risks during information synthesis, and develops interactive design solutions. The designer leads cross-functional projects, advocates for customers, coordinates with Engineering, site merchandising, and customer advocacy partners, and communicates project goals and decisions to stakeholders at all levels.

The position is based at 1375 Crossman Avenue, Sunnyvale, California. The salary range is $200,304 to $286,000 per year, with additional annual or quarterly performance incentives. Walmart offers a benefits package that includes health coverage, financial benefits, paid time off, and other programs, subject to eligibility and plan terms.

Requirements

• Master's degree or equivalent in UI/UX Design, Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Product Design, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related area, plus 2 years of experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronic art, multimedia design, or a related area; OR bachelor's degree or equivalent in one of those areas, plus 4 years of experience in those fields.
• Experience understanding accessibility standards, including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
• Experience writing HTML and CSS in relation to accessibility principles.
• Experience using ARIA roles, properties, and states to enhance accessibility.
• Experience using screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack to assess accessibility and identify issues.
• Experience manually testing web applications with assistive technologies, including screen readers and keyboard-only navigation, for accessibility-standard compliance.
• Experience conducting accessibility audits and producing detailed reports of issues and recommended fixes.
• Experience using automated tools and scripts for accessibility testing, including automated WCAG compliance scans.
• Experience designing inclusive and accessible user experiences.
• Experience solving complex accessibility challenges and educating, training, and guiding design, engineering, and product teams on accessibility standards and shift-left practices.
• Experience with magnification software such as ZoomText, voice-activated tools such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Windows Speech Recognition, and alternative input devices such as switches or adaptive keyboards.
• Experience using browser developer tools, including Chrome DevTools and Firefox Developer Tools, to inspect and debug web accessibility issues.
• Experience using Figma to review accessibility in design mockups and prototypes, including color contrast, typography, and interactive components.
• Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive user experience solutions across a small- to medium-sized portfolio of projects by translating business needs into actions and roadmaps.
• Evaluate project scope and design scalable, reliable, extensible, and maintainable user experience frameworks while balancing resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity.
• Direct project team members in defining or selecting methods such as competitive audits and secondary research.
• Manage creation of user experience frameworks, process flows, site maps, wireframes, and prototypes in support of business, merchandising, marketing, and branding objectives.
• Develop scalable and flexible design frameworks and patterns for simple and cohesive user experiences.
• Present designs to project and business teams for review; collaborate with Engineering leads to assess proposed solutions; supervise detailed specifications; and review PRDs to ensure accurate design translation.
• Evaluate the competitive landscape and future trends, develop artifacts outlining current conditions and proposed solutions, and create transitional roadmaps or clarify existing UX frameworks.
• Present strategy and recommendations across the organization to gain alignment and encourage change.
• Collaborate with Engineering Architects to establish project needs and success measures, develop UX strategy, analyze user tasks, design workflows, and present project decisions to senior leadership.
• Maintain a holistic portfolio perspective while improving UX tools, documentation, and processes; define scalable and global solution frameworks; recommend and govern site standards; collect feedback and industry research; review projects against best practices; and guide patterns and styles.
• Apply user discovery strategies and methods, including interviews, surveys, user journeys, storyboards, and contextual inquiries, to assess gaps between business expectations and UX strategies.
• Use knowledge of user consumption trends to develop or improve interaction design and UX strategies; analyze and interpret data such as web analytics, surveys, and customer support calls.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks during information synthesis and independently develop potential interactive design solutions.
• Lead cross-functional projects by establishing project needs and success measures, directing collaboration, working with partners, driving project goals, creating customer experiences, and advocating for customers in experience workflows.
• Request and attend usability sessions, participate in brainstorming, and present UX flows and project decisions to stakeholders at all levels.
• Conduct accessibility reviews and testing, identify accessibility issues, produce audit reports with recommended fixes, and help teams apply accessibility standards and shift-left practices.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance, including 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts.
• Military service pay.
• Adoption expense reimbursement.
• Annual or quarterly performance incentives. Eligibility and plan terms apply.

What This Job Offers

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