Walmart

(USA) Principal, UX Designer -AI Shopping

Walmart$143K — $286K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field or 5+ years of experience in related design roles
  • Mastery in visual, interaction, and systems design
  • Proficient in facilitating design sprints and workshops across teams
  • Ability to communicate complex AI-driven designs effectively
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, particularly in AI and automation
  • Human-first approach with strong empathy and alignment skills

Responsibilities

  • Design innovative AI-driven shopping experiences focusing on usability
  • Create AI-assisted shopping journeys that enhance customer engagement
  • Ensure consistency and integrity across various platforms and AI tools
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams for impactful design solutions
  • Balance user needs with business and technical considerations
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate concepts in a dynamic environment
  • Promote design thinking and responsible AI principles organization-wide

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) and stock purchase options
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Generous paid time off policies including parental and bereavement leave
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Discounts for employees
  • Education benefits covering tuition and fees for a variety of programs
Full Job Description
Position Summary...

What you'll do...
Role summary:

The Principal, UX Designer - AI Shopping leads the development and enhancement of user experience strategies by conducting comprehensive research, including user interviews and journey mapping. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to translate insights into innovative design solutions that improve customer interactions. The position requires expertise in prototyping, usability testing, and visual design to create scalable, user-centered products. The Principal Designer also drives continuous improvement by evaluating emerging trends and ensuring alignment with business objectives, fostering effective partnerships to deliver exceptional user experiences across digital platforms.
What you'll do:
  • Design best-in-class AI shopping experiences with a high bar for craft and usability
  • Shape agentic shopping journeys where AI proactively assists customers across discovery, decision-making and purchase
  • Design experiences that span Walmart-owned surfaces and 3rd party AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini), ensuring consistency, trust, and brand integrity
  • Partner closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and UXR to translate AI capabilities into meaningful customer value
  • Balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints in a rapidly evolving AI landscape
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on concepts in a fast-paced environment
  • Champion design thinking and responsible AI principles throughout the organization

What you'll bring:
  • Mastery across a wide spectrum of design disciplines, including visual, interaction, and systems design
  • The ability to clearly communicate and negotiate complex, AI-driven flows through compelling narratives, designs, and prototypes, both to internal partners as well as external partners
  • A strategic mindset with the ability to envision future states with north star experiences, and a systems-thinking approach to simplifying highly technical and ambiguous problem spaces for quick iteration and learning
  • Experience facilitating design sprints, workshops, or research sessions across cross-functional teams
  • Comfort with ambiguity-especially in emerging spaces like AI, automation, and agentic behavior
  • A human-first mindset: you are authentic, empathetic, and skilled at building alignment


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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The annual salary range for this position is $143,000.00 - $286,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

- Stock








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.

Design certification (for example, IDEOU - Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate), Driving product development in a user experience area, Master's degree in UI/UX Design, Interactive and Visual Design, Product Design, or related area, Related industry experience (for example, retail, supply chain, eCommerce, healthcare), UI/UX, Interactive and Visual Design, Electronics Art, Multimedia Design, or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart's accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Masters: Architecture, Masters: Artificial Intelligence, Masters: Business, Masters: Cognitive Science, Masters: Computer Science

Primary Location...

809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America

About Walmart

WalmartLabs is accelerating their development to redefine the shopping experience to meet the changing needs of our customers wherever they are —in a store, on our website, or on their mobile device.

Walmart Careers

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Size
2,300 employees
Market Cap
$387 billion
Industry
Net Income
$13.5 billion
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+3.3%
Revenue
$559.1 billion
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