Lead UX Designer - Inspire & Motivate

• Set the vision and strategy for the future of content presentation across Homepage, Category and beyond, influencing investment, partnerships, and the balance of new vs. iteration.
• Design dynamic, adaptive experiences where content is assembled, sequenced and personalized in real time based on guest context and business goals.
• Establish governance, design principles and guardrails for dynamic and AI driven content, so experiences stay on brand, accessible, trustworthy and consistent at scale.
• 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.
• Integrate AI into the design practice, using AI tools to accelerate exploration, prototyping and content variation. Help shape how the broader team adopts AI responsibly.
• Create design deliverables that fit each phase of the process, such as journey maps, system models, wireframes, user flows, UI design and prototypes.
• Guide design process and mentor junior designers.
• Investigate using both qualitative and quantitative research methods and use experimentation and performance data to inform and evolve the system.
• Hold design work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design and 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.

• 7+ years experience as a product designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful product design work.
• An activator: you energize teams and partners, build momentum around a vision and turn ambiguity into clear direction.
• A systems thinker: you design frameworks, patterns and rules that scale, not just individual screens.
• Hands on fluency with AI in your design practice, using AI tools for ideation, prototyping and content exploration and a point of view on designing AI powered experiences responsibly.
• 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 (e.g., Figma), including AI assisted and code based prototyping.
• 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.
• You exhibit a growth mindset and stay curious as tools and technology evolve.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's 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.