Senior Design Researcher (US) - Futurist
Position SummaryWhat you'll doWe're offing the opportunity to be a Senior Researcher on a team of professional futurists facilitators and futurists researchers, helping Walmart and our subsidiaries think about what is possible and design a strategy to get there.
We consider ourselves an internal consulting team, specializing in helping business units think further ahead than next year.
As a Senior Researcher, you will lead multiple research engagements with various business units throughout the year.
You will identify and present signals, drivers, and scenarios to help develop artifacts from the future, personas, and other foresight items for both your engagements and other projects within the team.
About the Team:
We are dedicated to making Walmart the preferred retail destination for consumers.
We believe that great design is about more than just making things look good, and our team exemplifies this philosophy.
We create beautiful, engaging, and accessible experiences for everyone.
Whether they are designing for traditional platforms or emerging channels, their design formula is almost always simple; it is a space where intuitive usability produces satisfying results.
This user-centric design approach is one of the reasons why Walmart customers return again and again.
What you'll do:
Partnering with business units to explore related futures and developing action roadmaps to achieve them.
Educating the business on the value of foresight research, and helping your partners understand how these may impact the future of their area.
Bringing your experiences into the team and your engagements, and leveraging a wide network of associates to develop robust and insightful engagement deliverables that spur teams to action What you'll bring:
Communication Skills - You are able to lead medium to large groups through your research findings, and adapt on the fly to changing goals, needs, or energy levels.
If selected for an interview, you should be prepared to highlight these skills.
An Eye for the Future - You love to research disruptive technologies, performing PESTLE (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental) analysis, and envisioning the potential impacts to the future.
Relationship Building - You are a network builder and ready to build new networks of other future thinkers by sharing your passion for research of the like.
You thrive and build on ideas from these networks as much as you contribute to the networks to bring in new signals and drivers.
Desire to Learn - Futurists are naturally curious.
You have a passion for learning and stepping outside your comfort zone and be willing to share what insights you have with the team.
Our team sits in Walmart Global Technology, so you should also be interested in innovative technologies that are on the horizon.
About Walmart Global TechImagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.
That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech.
We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.
People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations.
We are people-led and tech-empowered.
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.
We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career.
Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite.
Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs.
This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:
Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, 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.
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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.
It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
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 3 years' experience in market research, business analysis, UX design research, or related area.
Option 2:
5 years' experience in market research, business analysis, UX design research, or related area.
As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate.
Preferred Qualifications Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position.
If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Driving product development in a design research area, Market Research, Business Analysis, UX Design Research, or related 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), Research or design certification (for example, IDEOU - Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate)Masters:
Economics, Masters:
Human Computer Interaction, Masters:
Psychometrics, Masters:
Statistics Primary Location 508 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712, United States of America Recommended Skills Business Analysis Business Requirements Communication Curiosity E Commerce Economy Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
We consider ourselves an internal consulting team, specializing in helping business units think further ahead than next year.
As a Senior Researcher, you will lead multiple research engagements with various business units throughout the year.
You will identify and present signals, drivers, and scenarios to help develop artifacts from the future, personas, and other foresight items for both your engagements and other projects within the team.
About the Team:
We are dedicated to making Walmart the preferred retail destination for consumers.
We believe that great design is about more than just making things look good, and our team exemplifies this philosophy.
We create beautiful, engaging, and accessible experiences for everyone.
Whether they are designing for traditional platforms or emerging channels, their design formula is almost always simple; it is a space where intuitive usability produces satisfying results.
This user-centric design approach is one of the reasons why Walmart customers return again and again.
What you'll do:
Partnering with business units to explore related futures and developing action roadmaps to achieve them.
Educating the business on the value of foresight research, and helping your partners understand how these may impact the future of their area.
Bringing your experiences into the team and your engagements, and leveraging a wide network of associates to develop robust and insightful engagement deliverables that spur teams to action What you'll bring:
Communication Skills - You are able to lead medium to large groups through your research findings, and adapt on the fly to changing goals, needs, or energy levels.
If selected for an interview, you should be prepared to highlight these skills.
An Eye for the Future - You love to research disruptive technologies, performing PESTLE (Political, Economic, Sociological, Technological, Legal and Environmental) analysis, and envisioning the potential impacts to the future.
Relationship Building - You are a network builder and ready to build new networks of other future thinkers by sharing your passion for research of the like.
You thrive and build on ideas from these networks as much as you contribute to the networks to bring in new signals and drivers.
Desire to Learn - Futurists are naturally curious.
You have a passion for learning and stepping outside your comfort zone and be willing to share what insights you have with the team.
Our team sits in Walmart Global Technology, so you should also be interested in innovative technologies that are on the horizon.
About Walmart Global TechImagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.
That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech.
We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption.
People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations.
We are people-led and tech-empowered.
We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.
We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career.
Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite.
Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs.
This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:
Benefits:
Beyond our great compensation package, 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.
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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.
It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
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 3 years' experience in market research, business analysis, UX design research, or related area.
Option 2:
5 years' experience in market research, business analysis, UX design research, or related area.
As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate.
Preferred Qualifications Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position.
If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Driving product development in a design research area, Market Research, Business Analysis, UX Design Research, or related 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), Research or design certification (for example, IDEOU - Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate)Masters:
Economics, Masters:
Human Computer Interaction, Masters:
Psychometrics, Masters:
Statistics Primary Location 508 SW 8TH ST, BENTONVILLE, AR 72712, United States of America Recommended Skills Business Analysis Business Requirements Communication Curiosity E Commerce Economy Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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