About Us:

Working 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 design, research, content 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 job:

The SeniorEmail Product Designer is responsible for designing responsive emails alongside a team of Content Designers, Email Designers and Developers. The designer will ideate, produce, proof, test, and troubleshoot dynamic emails that follow both brand and UX standards and best practices.    

The successful candidate must be able to show specific work samples and case studies demonstrating clean, high-quality email design that supports templated, dynamic designs with brand standards and leverages current email best practices across major inboxes/email clients.

The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with experience working within established design systems. They should be able to understand and expand on existing email patterns while ensuring consistency with brand and UX standards. This role requires a keen eye for scalable design, creating components that can be reused across various email types while adhering to best practices for responsive and dynamic emails.

Responsibilities include:

• Create world-class, responsive emails 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 UX techniques that drive results  

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

• Create fluid, responsive, precise, designs and have deep understanding of how the designs leverage back-end services and logic and data extensions  

• Execute complete end-to-end QA of each email 

• 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 with partners, 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   

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience with UX design 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  

• 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 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 collaborate well with technical and non-technical partners 

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