Lead UX Designer – Design Systems
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Minneapolis, MN - USA
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Job Summary
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and 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 benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.Learn more about Target here.
Target UX is a group of designcontentresearch 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 therole:
As a Lead UX Designer on our Design Systems teamyoullhelp shape the future of Targets digital experiences across guest and team member products. Our design systems power experiences across platforms enabling product teams to create consistent accessible and scalable solutions with greater speed and quality.
You will lead the creation and evolution of reusable components patterns documentation and governance that enable teams to build exceptional experiences. As product creation evolves through AI-assisted workflows prompt-based interfaces and emerging builder toolsyoullhelp ensure our design systems remain structured scalable and ready to support both human and machine consumers.
This role combines systems thinking design craft and technicalpartnership.Youllwork closely with designers engineers product teams and platform partners to create robust design system foundations while helping shape how those systems are consumed through modern development workflows automation and AI-enabled experiences.
Responsibilities:
Partner with designers engineers product managers and platform teams toidentify prioritize and deliver reusable components and patterns that drive consistency efficiency accessibility and adoption across products.
Lead the creation and evolution of components and patterns in Figma ensuring alignment with code design tokens accessibility standards governance practices and emerging AI-enabled workflows. Create system assets that can be effectively consumed by both humans and machines.
Create andmaintaindocumentation usage guidance metadata implementation standards and educational resources that help teams successfully adopt the system while supporting automation tooling and machine-readable consumption.
Collaborate closely with engineering partners to ensure system assets are accurately represented in code and support modern development workflows across platforms.
Contribute to the evolution of design system governance and architecture ensuring the systemremainsscalable maintainable and adaptable as product creation evolves.
Evaluate emerging technologies tooling and AI-assisted workflows and help teams adopt new ways of working through education mentorship andadvocacy forsystems thinking.
About you:
6 years of experience in design systems as a Lead UX Designer with a portfoliodemonstratingthe successful evolution and adoption of large-scale multi-platform design systems serving a broad ecosystem of products and teams.
Deepexpertisein design systems including tokens components patterns governance accessibility documentation and system adoption.
Experience designing governing and scalingcomponentlibraries in Figma across web iOS and Android platforms.
Strong understanding of how design systems are implemented and consumed in code with experience partnering closely with engineering teams to bring systems to life.
Familiarity with emerging AI-assisted design and development workflows including prompt-based interfaces code generation Figma Make MCP-enabled tooling and other technologies shaping the future of product creation.
Understanding ofintent-driven design approaches and how patterns metadata and system structures enable consistent outcomes across human-authored automated and AI-assisted workflows.
Strong systems-thinking skills with the ability to balance immediate product needs with long-term platform sustainability and scalability.
Proven ability to influence strategy and drive alignment across design engineering product accessibility and platform partners.
Strong communicationand storytelling skills with the ability to advocate for systems thinking articulate design decisions and build support fornew approaches.
Fluency in responsive design accessibility standards and best practices across web iOS and Android platforms.
About Company
1234 employees
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index.
