(USA) Manager, Creative - Motion Design Lead

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Motion Design Lead, Content Studio

Content Studio, Walmart Creative Studio

Walmart Creative Studio (WCS) is the in-house creative agency for Walmart. Our team develops breakthrough and distinctive design systems and creative conversations that drive business objectives and keep our Fortune #1 brand in the culture. We use creativity and design to win hearts, minds, and wallets.

We are uniquely positioned as the internal creative agency of record to be hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels, categories, and campaigns. We are ruthlessly focused on human truths, insight-driven creative strategies and integrated creative solutions that build the brand and grow the business - not just with ads but through brand acts and experiences.

The Content Studio is WCS’s on site production capability. We are a team of creative makers who are experts in the intersection of craft and technology necessary to tell the most innovative and compelling stories through experiences, art, design, video, photography, motion graphics, animation, and sound. Our Playa Vista state of the art production facility sits in the heart of silicon beach.

We value talent, diversity, innovation, curiosity, collaboration, culture, insights, and results, and we are committed to helping people - all people - live better.

Position Summary

You are a creatively skilled and passionate designer/animator with strong technical capabilities to help build our motion graphics pipeline and workflows.  You lead by example and inspire team members to elevate their skillsets put forward the best creative output on a daily basis.  You'll be part of a fast-paced, fast-growing content studio team with the opportunity to work on projects big and small—directly impacting revenue on a Fortune #1 company.

You are entrepreneurial, resilient, and able to pivot to problem solve. You are excited by the potential to leverage the scale of Walmart to make an impact within the production community; and your ability in this role to inform and drive this impact.

About Walmart Marketing

Named Ad Age's Marketer of the Year in 2022, you'll join an internationally recognized team of thinkers, creators, and problem solvers passionate about helping people save money and live better.

Walmart Marketing is a dynamic, multidimensional organization dedicated to redefining how the world shops through impactful creative and fast-paced innovation - all grounded in customer insights and brand strategy. We live out our company values each day while striving to exceed customer expectations and drive growth for the company.

We orchestrate marketing campaigns and experiences that reach millions of daily shoppers. Our work spans the digital and physical spaces and combines the work of numerous internal teams and external advertising and media agencies. Our teams work together to show our customers how they can save money and live better. If you are motivated by complex challenges and want to build the future of commerce and consumer services, a Marketing role at Walmart could be what you've been looking for.

Our preference for this role would be centered to Los Angeles, CA. We’re moving toward 3 days in the office per week, with flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead Motion Design team as both a individual to creatively inspire as well as setting best practices for workflows and pipeline.
• Create both 2D and 3D original content across multiple business lines and media formats. 
• Explore emerging technologies to empower the team with new tools and ways of working.
• Focusing primarily on advertising and performance marketing, you’ll be a hands-on maker helping create the content that drives our growth.
• You’ll help identify creative opportunities that improve the creative output, and help find unique tactics to leverage creative assets and outputs from other campaigns.
• Put repeatable processes in place that help the team plan, manage multiple parallel projects, and run our business.
• Act as team player --  help ensure smooth operations, a friendly and calm workspace for our teams to be inspired; and a studio experience that leaves our clients and partners wanting more.

  

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of design & motion design experience in a creative setting.
• A portfolio of work showcasing a wide range of styles and aesthetics that utilize multiple toolsets to achieve the best creative possible.
• Advanced knowledge and experience of Photoshop, After Effects (and traditional plug-ins), C4D (and traditional plug-ins), and additional 3D animation tools. 
• Strong visual effects skills/knowledge an added bonus.   
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with rapidly shifting priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Marketing/creative agency experience, in-house experience.
• Experience in the Marketing, Retail or eCommerce industry.
• Strong desire to look past the task at hand and find additional creative opportunities that others may not identify. 

Equal Opportunity Employer 

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. 

Who We Are

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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The annual salary range for this position is $96,000.00-$186,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 1 year's experience in interactive design,
editorial content management, or related field OR 3 years' experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Content Management Systems, Managing interactive projects in an online creative or related digital field, Working for or with creative agencies, Working with Design Software (For example, Adobe Creative Suite), including proficiency in advanced functions (For example, multi-layer masking and compositing)

Primary Location...

5404 Jandy Plc, Los Angeles, CA 90066-7006, United States of America