Description
As a Lead UX Designer on our guest facing Inspire & Motivate team, you will shape how guests discover, get inspired and shop across Target's web, mobile web and native apps.
Responsibilities:
- Set the vision and strategy for the future of content presentation across Homepage, Category and beyond, influencing investment, partnerships, and the balance of new vs. iteration.
- Design dynamic, adaptive experiences where content is assembled, sequenced and personalized in real time based on guest context and business goals.
- Establish governance, design principles and guardrails for dynamic and AI driven content, so experiences stay on brand, accessible, trustworthy and consistent at scale.
- Use your influence to identify and pursue user centric outcomes within and across products.
- Effectively facilitate multiple cross functional working teams and collaborate across multiple design and product teams.
- Integrate AI into the design practice, using AI tools to accelerate exploration, prototyping and content variation.
- Create design deliverables that fit each phase of the process, such as journey maps, system models, wireframes, user flows, UI design and prototypes.
- Guide design process and mentor junior designers.
- Investigate using both qualitative and quantitative research methods and use experimentation and performance data to inform and evolve the system.
- Hold design work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design and visual design.
- Advance a culture of human centered practice within UX, product and engineering teams.
- Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest experience and Target as a whole.
Requirements:
- 7+ years experience as a product designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful product design work.
- An activator: you energize teams and partners, build momentum around a vision and turn ambiguity into clear direction.
- A systems thinker: you design frameworks, patterns and rules that scale, not just individual screens.
- Hands on fluency with AI in your design practice, using AI tools for ideation, prototyping and content exploration and a point of view on designing AI powered experiences responsibly.
- You thrive at the intersection of design strategy, scaled solutions and craft.
- Expert skills in UX and product design, as well as structuring and planning work and owning the design process.
- Advanced proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma), including AI assisted and code based prototyping.
- Advanced strategic problem solving, systems thinking and collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to effectively use data and insights to set your direction and communicate your approach.
- You balance the need for near term solutions and long term vision.
- You are an expert in communicating how design connects to, serves and improves business outcomes.
- You exhibit a growth mindset and stay curious as tools and technology evolve.