Position Summary...
Role summary: The (USA) Principal Recruiter - Design partners with senior leaders to shape workforce strategy by leveraging market intelligence and hiring data. This role advises on organizational design, capability planning, and sourcing strategies while developing multi-quarter hiring roadmaps aligned with business priorities. The Principal Recruiter drives skills-based evaluation frameworks, enhances candidate engagement, and optimizes offer negotiation processes. By implementing scalable recruiting models and advanced metrics, this position ensures operational excellence and supports continuous improvement to meet evolving talent needs and deliver impactful hiring outcomes across the organization. About the team: The Walmart AI Product and Design Talent Acquisition team leads strategic technology hiring across multiple U.S. locations, focusing on engineering, data, product, and infrastructure roles. Acting as trusted advisors, the team partners with senior leaders on workforce planning, skill segmentation, and hiring velocity. Utilizing market intelligence, data insights, and structured assessments, they enhance hiring quality and develop sustainable recruitment models. Managing complex, high-volume technical recruitment, the team influences organizational design and business outcomes, supporting Walmart’s innovation and growth objectives through effective talent acquisition strategy, market analysis, and stakeholder management.
What you'll do...
What you'll do
- Partner with senior leaders to shape workforce strategy using market intelligence and hiring data.
- Advise on organizational design, build versus buy decisions, and long-term capability planning.
- Develop multi-quarter hiring roadmaps aligned with business priorities and technology strategy.
- Design scalable sourcing ecosystems and evaluate sourcing technologies to optimize talent acquisition.
- Lead skills-based interviewing frameworks and improve hiring decision quality through data analysis.
- Enhance candidate engagement by shaping employer value propositions and digital outreach strategies.
- Drive offer negotiation strategies to improve acceptance rates and reduce time-to-close.
- Implement recruiting operating models and advanced metrics to ensure consistent performance measurement.
What you'll bring
- Proven experience partnering with senior leaders to shape workforce strategy and talent planning.
- Expertise in developing multi-quarter hiring roadmaps aligned with business priorities and capability needs.
- Strong skills in stakeholder management and influencing organizational design decisions.
- Ability to leverage labor market analytics for sourcing strategy, geographic expansion, and compensation guidance.
- Proficiency in designing scalable recruiting operating models and advanced talent metrics.
- Experience driving skills-based interviewing frameworks and improving quality-of-hire outcomes.
- Aptitude for enhancing candidate experience through data-driven engagement and process improvements.
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 $117,000.00 - $234,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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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.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, or related area and 3 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition or other area.
Option 2: 5 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition, or other area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Professional in Human Resources certificationHuman Resources - Professional HR (PHR) CERTIFICATION - Certification
Primary Location...
680 W California Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4834, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
