About Us: 

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win

Pyramid Overview:

Join the Digital - Guest Experience Design team and collaborate with a group of design, research, and accessibility enthusiasts and experts who have a passion for improving and innovating our digital experiences for Target’s guests, team members and partners. We pride ourselves on designing tangible, inspiring and impactful solutions that serve our guests, team members and business. 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 wherever possible.

Team Overview:

Target’s Global UX team 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.   

Role Overview:  

As a Senior Email Product Designer/Developer within our Guest UX Team, you’ll be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and contributing to business growth. You will designing and developing responsive emails (UI, front-end and back-end code) alongside a global team of Email Designers/Developers. The designer/developer will produce, proof, test, and troubleshoot dynamic HTML emails that follow both brand and current code standards.

You’ll demonstrate clean, high-quality email code that supports templated designs with brand standards and leverages current email best practices across major inboxes/email clients and use tried and true design methodologies such as human centered design thinking to understand guest needs, balance business ideas, deliver best-in-class design from concept to execution, while championing cross-functional experimentation.  

As a member of the team, you will contribute to advancing the broader practice of UX at Target through influence, impact, and craft, while also educating cross-functional teams when needed. We are an engaged, supportive, and increasingly diverse team focused on elevating the impact of our discipline.  

Responsibilities:

• Create world-class, responsive email code for the operational side of Target. com (orders, account, reviews, loyalty, registry, and much more!)  

• Explore how we make these important communications more personalized, human-centered, and actionable by using design and coding techniques that drive results  

• Generate new concepts and hypotheses, facilitate A/B testing ideas, and pivot quickly to new directions based on feedback & learning  

• Follow-through on delivery: own final email code by working primarily in Salesforce Marketing Cloud  

• Create fluid, responsive, precise, front-end HTML designs and connect back-end services and logic using AMPscript and data extensions  

• Execute complete end-to-end testing of each email using Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Litmus testing tools  

• Participate in the UX process, from early discovery and strategic approach to ideation, design, testing, asset delivery and production.  

• Leverage insights, data and research to identify and pursue user-centric outcomes within the Operational Communication space  

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

• Collaborate cheerfully with others, including other designers, developers, product managers, content designers, and accessibility team members  

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

• Proficiency in UX and product design and prototyping tools (i.e., in Figma)  

• Navigate complexity and ambiguity delivering impact for guests and the business   

About you:  

• 4+ years of experience with HTML/CSS front-end coding specifically for email (fluid responsive design layouts, device breakpoints and workarounds for limitations of email clients/browsers) with an eagerness to learn and expand your skills in the email space  

• Minimum of 3 years of coding and email development for Marketing Automation platforms, preferably Salesforce Marketing Cloud but open to other ESPs  

• Expertise using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma or equivalent to manipulate and export email design files  

• Experience working within corporate brand standards   

• Experience with Litmus, Email on Acid or equivalent testing tools  

• Willingness and ability to adopt new technologies, languages and/or frameworks to keep up with new trends and best practices  

• Knowledgeable about design thinking, the design process, and eager to expand your email development and design skillset in the future  

• Possess strong problem-solving skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, action-oriented environment  

• Able to translate technical explanations to non-technical parties  

• A passion for the email space and the specific intricacies of designing and developing emails  

• Experience with AMPscript is a plus