Lead Product Designer Guest UX Design

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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 Targets 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 Targets digital experience by increasing ease simplicity value and delight for every touchpoint.

About the role

Join Targets UX team to lead the Wayfinding experience across external traffic channels SEO Dynamic Landing Pages and emerging AI-powered search and shopping pathways. As we evolve how guests discover navigate and shop across Targets digital ecosystem you will shape the connective tissue of the experience ensuring guests feel oriented supported and confident at every entry point.

In this role you will bring a systems mindset and a high degree of craft excellence to designing the frameworks that guide guests into and through their shopping journeys. Youll elevate how content motion hierarchy structure and semantics work together to make Wayfinding coherent and intuitive. Your work will influence some of the most guest-visible and high-traffic surfaces in Targets digital footprint from SEO-informed landing experiences to AI-generated pathways and dynamically assembled discovery flows.

You will collaborate deeply with engineering product data science marketing and other UX teams to define new standards and scalable systems that flex across surfaces. Youll help the organization shift from designing pages to designing adaptive intelligent systems that guide guests in thoughtful future-forward ways.

Were looking for a designer who obsesses over detail understands how complex systems come together and has the motion and visual design skills to express clarity through elegant interactions. If youre excited to design the scaffolding that shapes how millions of guests begin and navigate their journeys youll drive the next generation of Wayfinding at Target.

Responsibilities

• Develop and contribute to UX strategy and vision for product experiences across digital platforms influencing investment collaborations and the balance of new vs. Iteration

• Use your influence to identify and pursue user-centric outcomes within and across products

• Effectively facilitate multiple cross functional working teams and collaborate across multiple design and product teams

• Create design deliverables representative of the design process phase such as journey maps wireframes user flows UI design and prototypes

• Guide design process and mentor junior designers

• Investigate using both qualitative and quantitative research methods

• Hold design work to a high standard of craft including accessibility user research information architecture interaction design visual design

• Advance a culture of human-centered practice within UX product and engineering teams

• Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest experience and Target as a whole

About you

• 7 years experience as a product designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful product design work

• You thrive at the intersection of design strategy scaled solutions and craft

• Expert skills in UX and product design as well as structuring and planning work and owning the design process

• Advanced proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (i.e. in Figma)

• Advanced strategic problem-solving systems thinking and collaboration skills

• Proven ability to effectively use data and insights to set your direction and communicate your approach

• You balance the need for near-term solutions and long-term vision

• You are an expert in communicating how design connects to serves and improves business outcomes

• Exhibit a growth mindset

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually 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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.