(USA) Senior Manager, Creative

Posted: 2026-10-02

Location: LOS ANGELES, CA, United States

Salary: $108000 - $216000/year

Type: Full time / Regular/Permanent

Company: Walmart

Role summary: As an Associate Creative Director on the Fashion team, you'll partner with Creative Directors to shape and execute integrated Fashion campaigns that bring Walmart's brand to life across every channel. You'll lead and mentor art directors, copywriters, and designers to craft high-quality, 360-degree creative solutions that resonate with customers and drive results. This role requires a creative leader who is equally comfortable concepting big ideas, directing teams, and rolling up their sleeves to refine and polish the work. You'll help ensure campaigns are strategically sound, visually compelling, and consistently on brand.

About the team: Walmart Creative 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 brand in culture. We use creativity and design to win hearts, minds, and wallets. We are uniquely positioned to be hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels, categories, and campaigns. We are focused on human truths, insight-driven creative strategies and integrated solutions that build brand and grow the business. We value talent, innovation, curiosity, collaboration, culture, insights, and results, and we are committed to helping people – all people – live better.

What you'll do: Translate Fashion briefs into strategic, high-impact ideas that strengthen KPIs; drive perception changing work. Drive ideation and concept development, craft compelling brand worlds, and create polished presentations. Support Creative Director to oversee pre-production, direct on-set execution, and guide through final delivery. Utilize AI-powered tools to enhance creative ideation, world-building, & presentations. Ensure all creative executions are consistent & cohesive across the funnel and total enterprise. Manage, elevate, and inspire a team of creatives. Promote smarter, faster creative processes: keeping work on time, on strategy, and on budget. Build trust cross-functional by delivering excellent creative that meets goals. Confidently present work, articulating the strategy and creative rationale behind ideas.

What you'll bring: Proven experience as an Associate Creative Director or similar role in an agency or in-house creative environment. Portfolio that demonstrates integrated, 360-degree campaign experience. Leadership and collaboration skills with a track record of mentoring creative talent. Deep understanding of brand storytelling, customer insights, and creative strategy. Proficiency in key creative tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Google Slides, Microsoft Office, Slack).Proficiency in utilizing AI-powered tools to enhance creative ideation, world-building, and creative presentations. Minimum 8 years of creative experience across art direction, copywriting, or design. Bachelor's degree in Design, Marketing, Communications, Creative Writing or related field preferred. 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 .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 $108,000.00 - $216,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :- Stock Minimum qualifications["

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 3 years' experience in editorial content management or related field OR 5 years' experience in editorial content management or related field."]Preferred qualifications["Retail Management", "WE-Working for or with Creative Agencies", "Supervising Associates", "Digital Content Management", "Editorial"]