About Target:

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’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.

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About the job:

As a Senior Product Designer within our Guest Experience team, your mission is to deliver best-in-class digital shopping experiences for our guests by delivering both functional proof of concepts and in-market launches in partnership with product, engineering, and other cross-functional peers and leaders through UX sprint frameworks (i.e., discovery, co-creation, future-visioning).In this role, you will focus on deeply understanding the human need, changes in consumer trend and behavior, business opportunity, and Target’s brand potential to design and prototype new experiences for a small portfolio of actionable, multi-horizon strategies. You will bring meaningful guest journeys and experiences to life by thinking holistically, pragmatically, and through the lens of innovation while setting a high bar for craft and quality.

You are a skilledprototyper, fluent in selecting the right tools to explore new and emerging interaction, technology, and experience paradigms. You deliver the right fidelity at the right time—ranging from rapid, low-fi interactions perfect for iteration in user studies to more emotive prototypes featuring high-craft visuals, motion, and sound.You understand guest needs, omni-channel retail, and the role that UX plays in driving engagement, loyalty, delight, and trust while delivering business results. You are proactive, curious, ask questions, and are driven to connect the dots. You will leverage both your technical expertise and tried-and-true design craft to understand and prioritize guest needs, co-develop near and long-term design strategies, and deliver a best-in-class guest experience for Target.

Responsibilities:

Participate inUX sprints for discovery, co-creation, future-visioning, and functional proof of concept delivery for emerging experiences in partnership with product, engineering, and other cross-functional peers and leaders

Lead and contribute high-quality visual, interaction, and motion designs and protoypes for digital and omni-channel experiences and platforms

Leverage insights, data and quantitative/qualitative research to identify and pursue user-centric outcomes within your product space

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

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

Contribute to a culture of human-centered practice within UX, product, and engineering teams

Navigate complexity and ambiguity delivering impact for guests and the business

About you:  

You’re an experienced product designer with 4+ years of relevant product design work

Intermediate skills in UX and product design, as well as structuring and planning work, and owning the design process

Proficiency in product design and prototyping tools ( i.e., Figma, Principle, Framer; ability to write markup and/or develop in HTML, JS, SwiftU, Jetpack Compose is a plus)

Experience working in new product development within large enterprises (i.e., co-creation sprints)

Demonstrate strategic problem-solving, systems thinking, and collaboration skills

You lean into complex problems, challenge the status quo, and seek to understand the ‘why’ behind human behavior and their mindsets

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

You value outcomes and strive toward design that is welcoming, inspiring, and clear

You understand how design connects to, serves, and improvesbusiness outcomes

Exhibit a growth mindset