Lead UX Product Designer - Design Systems

The pay range is $ - $

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In 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 selves. Other

benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at

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 UX 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.

About the role:

As a Lead UX Designer focusing on design systems, you'll be at the forefront of Target's evolving digital experience, shaping it for our team members and contributing to business growth. Our Design System is a multi-platform system used by our stores and supply chain design team to create engaging and consistent user experiences. You will drive the evolution of the Design System, including multi-platform libraries, design tokens, versioning, governance, and accessibility, maximizing user adoption and reusability.

You will define and deliver exceptionally high quality, usable design components that drive efficiency and consistency across end-to-end guest and employee facing experiences.

You will play a crucial role in driving the product development process, ensuring that our designs align with user needs, business objectives, and technological feasibility. This role will join a team of passionate designers creating components and supporting partners across Target in creating robust, intuitive, and accessible experiences for our guests and team members.

Responsibilities:

* Partner and collaborate with a cross functional team of designers, developers and product managers across teams to identify, prioritize, and create new design components that are reusable, responsive and accessible, leveraging these relationships to drive adoption of the design system

* Drive the creation of components and patterns in Figma, ensuring component consistency with code, Information Architecture, tokens alignment, definition of variants, auto-layout, proper utilization of plugins, version control, accessibility, and best practices

* Ensure the design assets your team creates maintains the highest of quality standards and are thoroughly documented with usage guidelines that connect and resonate with the teams using the design system

* Collaborate effectively with developers to maintain and create coded components that align to our design system

* Foster education, author training resources, and best practices to ensure a top-notch experience for teams adopting the design system

* Bring the latest insights, best practices and design patterns across industries and platforms

* Operate comfortably in agile environments within the parameters of sprints, helping the team prioritize work considering needs, resources and capacity

* Guide the design process, mentor, and coach other designers

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

* Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest and team…