Lead UX Product Designer – Design Systems

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Pay is based on several factors that vary based on position, including labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member so you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs—medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more—to support your whole self.

Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), an employee discount, short‑term disability, long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

Target UX is a group of design, content, research, and accessibility practitioners and experts, passionate about improving and innovating our digital experiences for Target’s guests, team members, and partners. We design tangible, inspiring, and impactful solutions that serve all aspects of our business, and you will play a critical role in enhancing Target’s digital experience by increasing ease, simplicity, value, and delight for every touchpoint.

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—to maximize 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.

• Partner and collaborate with a cross‑functional team of designers, developers, and product managers to identify, prioritize, and create reusable, responsive, and accessible design components, driving adoption of the design system.
• Drive the creation of components and patterns in Figma, ensuring consistency with code, information architecture, token alignment, definition of variants, auto‑layout, proper utilization of plugins, version control, accessibility, and best practices.
• Ensure design assets maintain the highest quality standards and are thoroughly documented with usage guidelines that resonate with the teams using the design system.
• Collaborate effectively with developers to maintain and create coded components that align with 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 sprint parameters, helping the team prioritize work considering needs, resources, and capacity.
• Guide the design process, mentor, and coach other designers.
• Hold design system work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
• Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest and team member experiences.

• 6+ years of experience in design systems as a senior or lead UX designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful design work building complex products with reusable components.
• Advanced understanding of design systems and the ability to communicate its value to a large, complex organization.
• Advanced knowledge of Figma for designing, governing,…