The pay range is $126,600.00 - $227,900.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About Target: 

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

Target UX is a group of design, content, research, and accessibility practitioners and experts, with a passion for improving and innovating our digital experiences for Target’s guests, team members, and partners. Here, we pride ourselves on designing tangible, inspiring, and impactful solutions that serve all aspects of our business– and being a part of the team means you will play a critical role for Target’s digital experience by increasing ease, simplicity, value, and delight for every touchpoint.

About the role:  

As a Lead UX Designer within our Design Systems Team, you’ll be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and contributing to business growth. Our Design System is a multi-platform system used by Target product teams to create engaging and consistent user experiences. You will drive the evolution of the Target Design System, including multi-platform libraries, design tokens, versioning, governance, and accessibility, maximizing user adoption and reusability. You will define and deliver exceptionally high quality, usable design components that drive efficiency and consistency across end-to-end guest and employee facing experiences.

As a Lead on the Target UX team you will play a crucial role in driving the product development process, ensuring that our designs align with user needs, business objectives, and technological feasibility.

Responsibilities:

Partner and collaborate with a cross functional team of designers, developers and product managers across teams to identify, prioritize, and create new design components that are reusable, responsive and accessible, leveraging these relationships to drive adoption of the design system
Drive the creation of components and patterns in Figma, ensuring component consistency with code, Information Architecture, tokens alignment, definition of variants, auto-layout, proper utilization of plugins, version control, accessibility, and best practices
Ensure the design assets your team creates maintains the highest of quality standards and are thoroughly documented with usage guidelines that connect and resonate with the teams using the design system
Collaborate effectively with developers to maintain and create coded components that align to our design system
Foster education, author training resources, and best practices to ensure a top-notch experience for teams adopting the design system
Bring the latest insights, best practices and design patterns across industries and platforms
Operate comfortably in agile environments within the parameters of sprints, helping the team prioritize work considering needs, resources and capacity
Guide the design process, mentor, and coach other designers
Hold design systems work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design
Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest and team member experiences

About you:  

Proven experience in design systems as a lead UX designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful design work building complex products with reusable components
You thrive at the intersection of design strategy, scaled solutions, and craft
Expert skills in UX and product design in complex environments, as well as structuring and planning work, and owning the design process
Advanced proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (i.e. Figma)
Advanced strategic problem-solving, systems thinking, and collaboration skills
Advanced understanding of design systems and an ability to communicate its value to a large, complex organizations
Proficient best practices for responsive design, accessible web, ios and android interfaces that meet WCAG Accessibility standards
You are an expert in communicating how design systems connects to, serves, and improves business outcomes

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as Flex for Your Day) work arrangement based on Targets needs.  A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location thats not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.  A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.

Application deadline is : 01/17/2025