Job Description

What you'll do...

We are seeking a Design Lead professional in our Sunnyvale, CA office.

Duties: Lead and deliver design initiatives within the Walmart Global Data practice area. Leverage extensive knowledge of technical and business data products to increase design impact. Create a framework based approach for the Data UX Ecosystem considering data and engineering dependencies that define the product. Drive discussions and meetings with business leadership and product teams to understand the product vision and derive UX design requirements. Present and lead discussions with leadership and business and product teams to evangelize the UX design process and culture. Create a detail UX execution plan and approach for new and existing products along with design scope, deliverables, timelines, and plan resources for each initiative. Conduct user studies in various locations with business operation teams, Wal-Mart stores, and distribution center users across different locations teams. Use qualitative and quantitative data to create design opportunities by working closely with data scientists and data analysts to derive the maximum outcome for designs considering business needs. Leverage knowledge of advanced analytic tools like Looker, ThoughtSpot, Tableau, RShiny, and Cognos to recommend design best practices. Conduct heuristics and competitive analysis as required. Manage and deliver high caliber designs on multiple products and applications simultaneously in a timely manner. Build a data visualization design language through insight-driven modifications and suggestions and drive re-usability across applications and products. Identify opportunities for collaboration through design thinking workshops with product and technology teams to discuss ideas and opportunities for design. Create a re-usable design library and guidelines that can be applied effectively across multiple data rich applications and products for all designers on the team. Work with the customer success team to validate the usability of designs by conducting methodical surveys and feedback gathering processes. Conduct usability test sessions to validate designs. Engage in conducting design training sessions for new project managers and other business teams.

Minimum education and experience required: 6 years of design experience; OR Bachelors degree or the equivalent in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Information Science, Design, Engineering (any), or related field and 4 years of design experience; OR Masters degree or the equivalent in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Information Science, Design, Engineering (any), or related field and 2 years of design experience.

Skills required: Experience working with large datasets and complex data structures and developing intuitive information architecture. Experience designing complex technical products and business data applications. Experience conducting design thinking workshops and focus groups with stakeholders to derive goals and visions for data and designs. Experience conducting qualitative primary and secondary research including conducting user interviews and field studies. Experience conducting quantitative data research using Microsoft Excel and BI tools to derive metric data correlations. Experience working with data scientists and data analysts to understand model and algorithm outputs for frontend UX designs. Experience creating a re-usable design framework and design system for complex data technical and data business products. Experience delivering UX detail designs using Sketch and Adobe Suite. Experience conducting Heuristic and Competitive Analysis. Experience creating high-fidelity prototypes and designing assets using Sketch, Invision, and Zeplin. Experience conducting usability testing sessions. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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