Overview As Senior Director, you will define and scale AI-powered, rich-media content experiences across Walmart's digital shopping surfaces. You'll lead a multi-pillar engineering org to deliver customer-first innovation at enterprise scale, shaping AI, immersive tech, and content platforms. You'll influence executive-level technology investments and partner globally to productionize advanced models and media systems. This role offers high impact across shopping experiences, from VTO to AR/XR, with a strong emphasis on customer trust and growth.
Compensation / Benefits- incentive awards for performance
- 401(k) match
- stock purchase plan
- paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO and health plans
- life insurance and disability benefits
Responsibilities- Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for AI-driven rich-media experiences across Walmart's surfaces and regions
- Influence executive leadership on technology investments, priorities, and innovation areas
- Identify and execute opportunities to enhance product discovery, engagement, conversion, and trust through rich media and intelligent content
- Own development, scaling, and global deployment of foundational capabilities (rich media, immersive commerce, content generation and intelligence)
- Architect and maintain resilient, high-performance full-stack platforms with worldwide consistency
- Collaborate with business, product, design, and data teams to translate priorities into scalable tech solutions
- Work with AI research teams to operationalize advanced models into enterprise systems
- Champion adoption of generative AI, agentic systems, and computer vision to enable automation and personalization
- Lead a global, multi-pillar engineering organization with succession planning and talent development
- Mentor and develop senior leaders while fostering an inclusive, accountable, innovative culture
Key requirements- 15+ years in software engineering, platform development, or AI-driven systems
- 10+ years leading leaders and large engineering organizations (management of managers)
- Proven track record delivering consumer-facing platforms at enterprise scale in ecommerce or media
- Strong expertise in frontend and full-stack engineering at scale, distributed systems and platform architecture
- Deep knowledge of AI/ML (generative AI, computer vision, content understanding) and content/media pipelines
- Experience delivering large-scale, cross-functional programs with executive stakeholder influence
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (master's preferred)
- strategic thinking and vision setting
- excellent stakeholder management and executive influencing
- collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Frontend and full-stack engineering at scale
- Distributed systems and platform architecture
- AI/ML: generative AI, computer vision, content understanding
