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As of Aug 23, 2026, the average hourly pay for walmart academy lead in the United States is $25.73, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $15.38 and $24.04 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Walmart Academy Lead?

A Walmart Academy Lead is responsible for training and developing associates within a Walmart Academy. They facilitate learning programs, coach employees on company policies and job skills, and support leadership development. Their goal is to ensure associates are well-equipped to provide excellent customer service and uphold Walmart's standards. This role involves working closely with management to identify training needs and improve operational performance.

What are the common responsibilities of a Walmart Academy Lead?

As a Walmart Academy Lead, your week usually involves coordinating and facilitating training sessions for new and existing associates, ensuring curriculum adherence, and monitoring participant progress. You’ll often collaborate with store management, department leads, and HR to identify training needs and support continuous improvement initiatives. The role requires a blend of hands-on training delivery, administrative tasks like scheduling and tracking attendance, and offering feedback to both associates and leadership. This dynamic mix of responsibilities makes the job both engaging and vital to the overall growth of Walmart’s workforce.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Walmart Academy Lead?

To thrive as a Walmart Academy Lead, you need a strong background in retail operations, training facilitation, and team leadership, often supported by previous management experience within Walmart or similar large-scale retailers. Familiarity with learning management systems (LMS), Microsoft Office Suite, and in-house training platforms is typically important. Outstanding communication, coaching, and problem-solving skills help foster team development and create a positive learning environment. These competencies are crucial because Academy Leads play a central role in training associates, driving operational excellence, and supporting the development of future Walmart leaders.

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Infographic showing various Walmart Academy Lead job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 88% Full Time, 9% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 90% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $53,524 per year, or $25.7 per hour.

Director, Learning and Development - AI Upskilling

Walmart

Cave Springs, AR • On-site

$110K - $220K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 10 days ago

Walmart rating

6.0

Company rating: 6.0 out of 10

Based on 22,498 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

25th of 39 rated national retailers

Job description

Position Summary...The Director, AI Upskilling leads enterprise initiatives that prepare Walmart associates for the future of work. This role builds scalable learning solutions that increase AI fluency, accelerate workforce capability, and expand career mobility through programs such as Associate-to-Technician and other skills-based pathways. Partnering across GTL, Walmart Academy, Talent, Operations, and business stakeholders, the director identifies workforce priorities and aligns learning strategies to business needs. This role oversees strategy, scaling, and partnerships with functional teams to deliver measurable workforce and business impact while supporting Walmart’s long-term workforce transformation.
About the team:
The Walmart Academy learning team advances leadership capabilities through innovative, technology-driven talent development. It designs and delivers learning experiences that enhance coaching, communication, and problem-solving skills, preparing leaders to meet evolving business needs. By aligning learning strategies with organizational goals, the team fosters continuous improvement and operational excellence. Collaborating closely with business leaders, it ensures training programs effectively support priorities and develop a strong leadership pipeline equipped to address future challenges and sustain business growth. What you'll do...
  • Lead a high-performing team focused on enterprise AI upskilling, specialty learning programs, and workforce pathways.
  • Develop and execute Walmart Academy’s AI fluency and workforce capability strategy with GTL and business stakeholders.
  • Build scalable skills pathways and career mobility programs aligned to workforce demand.
  • Partner across GTL, Academy, Talent, Operations, and business teams to identify capability needs and deliver learning solutions.
  • Manage program strategy, pilots, scaling, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement.
  • Use insights and data to evaluate impact, guide decisions, manage partnerships, influence leaders, and shape workforce transformation priorities.


What you'll bring:

  • Experience leading teams in learning strategy, workforce development, talent enablement, instructional design, or capability-building functions.
  • Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence outcomes in matrixed organizations.
  • Strong strategic thinking with the ability to connect workforce capability efforts to business priorities and operational outcomes.
  • Experience designing and scaling enterprise learning, career mobility, workforce transformation, or skills-based talent programs.
  • Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, build alignment, and drive execution in fast-changing environments.
  • Familiarity with AI enablement, digital fluency, automation, or emerging workforce trends preferred.
  • Experience using data and insights to evaluate effectiveness and guide decisions.


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 $110,000.00 - $220,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
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Minimum Qualifications...

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Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Communications, Education, or related field and 5 years’ experience in adult learning, training
content development, or related area OR 7 years’ experience in adult learning, training content development, or related area. Preferred Qualifications...

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

Leading a cross-functional team, Project Management, Supervisory Masters: Human Resources, Masters: Learning and Development Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification, Six Sigma - CertificationPrimary Location... 806 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America Walmart 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.

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From our humble beginnings as a small discount retailer in Rogers, Ark., Walmart has opened thousands of stores in the U.S. and expanded internationally. Through innovation, we're creating a seamless experience to let customers shop anytime and anywhere online and in stores. We are creating opportunities and bringing value to customers and communities around the globe. Walmart operates approximately 10,500 stores and clubs in 19 countries and eCommerce websites. We employ 2.1 million associates around the world — nearly 1.6 million in the U.S. alone.

Industry

Retail and transportation and warehousing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Bentonville, AR, US

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