Principal Designer (US)

Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About Store No8:
We are the incubation arm of Walmart. Store No8 was formed in 2017 as part of Walmart's larger innovation mission to shape the future of commerce. We pursue big ideas and take risks by stepping outside of Walmart's core business to focus on leapfrog capabilities across conversational commerce, mixed reality, in-store digitization, and more. Our ultimate goal : fuel Walmart's core business, create new operational efficiencies, and unlock amazing experiences for our customers in the long-term.
About the Role:
As the Principal Designer for one of Store No8's portfolio companies, you will focus on building 0->1 products with a lean and high-powered team. You will partner with Engineers, Product, business strategy, UX/UI, Data Scientists. You will need to be a self-starter with a bias for action and excellent communication skills.
This is a rare opportunity, moving at the speed of a start-up, with the backing and in-house data (lots of data) of the Fortune 1 company. You will bridge the art of what's possible across today's rapidly evolving customer and food landscape.
What You Will Do:

• Bringing the Product vision to life by creating concepts and prototypes that generate immense value and simplicity for our customers
• Facilitating creative problem-solving across cross-functional partners to drive best-in-class thinking from all parts of the team and seamlessly integrating competitive organizational goals.
• Creating best in class experiments and AB tests that validate user engagement, product user fit and product market fit.

• Driving and holding others accountable to create experiences that celebrate and empower our end-users including design, customer journeys, copy, illustrations and overall brand.
• Proactively soliciting, leveraging, and sharing design research, competitive research, data, and analytics to create full-featured and strategic products.
• Fostering a maker mindset so teams can iterate and experiment collaboratively to challenge the status quo, drive new thinking, and improve processes for creating future-forward product experiences.
• Thinking holistically so that we build true end-to-end experiences.
• Switching gears from deep design thinking to rapid-fire execution to be hands-on in the digital design of the product

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in HCI, Information Architecture, Digital Design, or similar and at least 5 - 7 years of experience in product design.
• Have a fantastic portfolio of elegant design solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Perks and Benefits
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
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Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in UI/UX design, graphic design, visual communication, product design, computer science, information technology, or related area and 5 years' experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area. Option 2: 7 years' experience in UI/UX, interactive and visual design, electronics art, multimedia design, or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Designing front-end user experience solutions for consumer software development using modern web technologies such as responsive design and iOS and Android design best practices., Designing front-end user experience solutions for service-oriented (SOA) architectures, Developing user experience solutions with agile methodology, eCommerce, Software Design
Masters: Architecture, Masters: Artificial Intelligence, Masters: Business, Masters: Cognitive Science, Masters: Computer Science
Primary Location...
221 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030, United States of America