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Overview:

As Creative Director (Fashion), you will lead a talented team of 20+ professionals, including Associate Creative Directors, Art Directors, Designers, and Writers. Your team will be organized into pods tasked with conceptualizing and executing fashion editorial shoots, along with crafting narratives for paid and owned placements across our site, store, digital, and social channels.

This role requires managing multiple overlapping campaigns, demanding exceptional attention to detail, operational expertise, critical thinking, and the ability to seamlessly pivot between teams and projects. Multitasking and maintaining strong organizational skills will be key to your success.

Beyond team leadership, you'll play a pivotal role in presenting creative ideas to cross-functional partners, such as retail marketing teams and senior enterprise leaders. This involves delivering clear, persuasive presentations and gracefully onboarding feedback to refine ideas.

At its core, this role is about creating stunning, on-brand campaigns that captivate and engage fashion-forward audiences while expanding our reach. While your team will often handle the execution, you'll also step onto set as needed to ensure creative excellence. Your mission is to nurture and guide an efficient, dynamic team that consistently delivers exceptional content with style and impact.

The candidate must bring in-house experience at a large-scale organization leading creative teams and, ideally, has additional experience in an agency setting. They combine strong leadership skills with hands-on creative expertise, demonstrating the ability to deliver visually striking campaigns that honor our brand while resonating with new audiences

Key Outcomes

Best-in-Class Work

○ Manage and contribute to a large team that will execute 360-degree fashion campaigns for all channels, e.g. site, store, paid online video, and paid social.

○ Develop strategic concepts in response to marketing briefs that elevate brand awareness, enhance perception, and effectively position our trend-forward products to drive consideration and conversion.

○ Oversee and contribute to pixel-perfect decks that contain strategic ideas, modern moodboards and swipe, brand-right narratives, and compelling adlobs/mocks.

○ Oversee all pre-production decks (music, set, casting, glam, shot lists), have an eye for modern, diverse, and brand right talent/crews to bring our vision alive (directors, photographers, stylists, etc.), execute on set, direct post-production processes overseeing the edit, color, sound, and design of all post-shoot assets, and be accountable for final delivery of campaign toolkits.

○ Ensure all creative materials are considered at various levels of the funnel. ○ Stay abreast of industry trends, consumer preferences, and competitive landscapes to inform creative decisions.

Brand Consistency

○ Strive for a cohesive and unified expression across all fashion campaigns, balancing consistency with the flexibility to adapt for unique private brands and seasonal initiatives when appropriate.

○ Partner with peer Creative Directors to ensure that fashion campaigns align with broader enterprise campaigns, maintaining a distinctly Walmart identity while pushing editorial boundaries and challenging perceptions.

Team Development

○ Mentor, guide, and grow the team with optimism and enthusiasm, pursuing an award-winning in-house agency model.

○ Conduct semi-annual or annual performance evaluations with the goal to up-level our creative output; consider categories such as: swipe, deck design, strategic approaches and ideating, presentation, and critical thinking.

○ Identify new, competitive talent to add to the growing and accelerating team as appropriate.

Efficiency

○ Employ critical thinking to ensure we're always on task; pursue ways that we can work better, faster.

○ Respect time for your teams, peers, and leaders.

○ Take initiative; come to the table with solution-oriented options, not problems.

○ Manage team and projects that are on-brief, strategic, creative, and polished for presentations, mitigating feedback and pivots that will ultimately keep workstreams on track.

○ Partner with Creative Account Management and Operations (CAMO) and Production to manage timelines and executions to concept breakthrough creative on schedule and on budget.

Client Satisfaction

○ Present regularly to key stakeholders and executives.

○ Build strong relationships with WCS peer teams, such as Retail Marketing, Performance Marketing, Fashion Office & Editorial to sustain and grow business. Qualifications

Qualifications
• Proven experience as a Creative Director or similar role in the fashion retail industry
• Strong portfolio showcasing varied 360-degree creative projects in the market at all levels
• Exceptional leadership, collaboration, and team management skills
• Excellent understanding of fashion trends and consumer behavior
• Proficiency in creative software and tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Google Slides, Figma, Microsoft Office 365, Slack
• Minimum 15 years of experience in a creative role
• A mix of in-house and agency experience is preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, or a related field

Reporting & Expectations:
• Reports to Group Creative Director
• Leads and manages pods responsible for 360 degree campaigns, including Associate Creative Directors, Senior Art Director, Designers, and Writers
• This role requires in-office presence and collaboration in our Los Angeles, CA studio

Why Join Us:
• We have a thrilling job to be done: make Walmart style relevant to every American consumer. We'll get there via innovative ideas and exceptional execution. The road ahead of us is wide open and ripe for creative disruption.
• If you are a visionary creative leader with a passion for style and a track record of delivering exceptional results, we invite you to apply and be part of our journey to redefine the retail landscape

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 $132,000.00-$264,000.00

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.

Bachelor's degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 7 years' experience leading creative teams OR 9 years' experience leading creative teams.

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Managing Brand Initiatives for Product Launches, Managing Budgets, Including Budget Forecasting and Reporting Financials, Managing cross-functional teams in a retail creative environment, Managing large scale interactive campaigns in an online creative or related digital field, Managing Vendor Contracts and Relationships, Working for or with creative agencies

Primary Location...

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