Lead UX Designer, Emerging Experiences

Target • Minneapolis, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Product Designer within the Emerging Experience team will be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for guests and contributing to business growth. This role involves bringing ideas to life through interactive prototypes and storytelling. The designer will contribute to UX sprints and future-visioning efforts by designing thoughtful, high-quality prototypes that help teams explore possibilities and align around priorities. The position requires applying creative and technical skills to test assumptions, express ideas with emotional clarity, and support the delivery of best-in-class experiences. The role operates within a team environment that values experimentation, inclusivity, and care for both the work and the people involved. As a Lead on the Target UX team, the individual will play a crucial role in driving the product development process, ensuring designs align with user needs, business objectives, and technological feasibility.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience as a product designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful product design work
• Advanced proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (i.e., in Figma, Principle, Framer, Cursor, Lovable)
• Experience working in design sprints, early-stage concepting, or innovation labs
• Advanced strategic problem-solving, systems thinking, and collaboration skills
• Ability to balance creative exploration with practical delivery
• Proven ability to effectively use data and insights to set your direction and communicate your approach
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills—able to bring others along through your work
• Comfortable working in ambiguity, contributing to complex challenges, and collaborating across teams
• Passionate about inclusive design and creating joyful, purposeful experiences at scale

Responsibilities

• Participate in cross-functional design sprints to explore new guest experiences and technologies
• Contribute to the development of future-state journeys and conceptual models through product design, prototyping and visual storytelling
• Effectively facilitate multiple cross functional working teams and collaborate across multiple design and product teams
• Create design deliverables representative of the design process phase – such as wireframes, user flows, UI design and prototypes
• Guide design process and mentor junior designers
• Hold design work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design
• Contribute to a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and human-centered practice

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed