Senior UX Product Designer, Emerging Experiences

Target • Minneapolis, MN

2d • $98,000 - $176,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Target’s Global UX team includes design, content, research, and accessibility practitioners focused on improving and innovating digital experiences for Target’s guests, team members, and partners. The Emerging Experiences team explores future-forward guest experiences across digital and physical touchpoints, using immersive, high-fidelity storytelling and collaborating across product, engineering, brand, stores, and enterprise strategy to prototype future experiences.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will translate guest insights, business opportunities, and system constraints into clear experience direction. You will work with cross-functional partners to identify pain points, map journeys and services, and align teams around human-centered solutions. The role combines design craft with systems thinking and supports more senior team members in framing and delivering connected guest experiences that scale across channels.

The position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (“Flex for Your Day”) arrangement, depending on Target’s needs. Remote team members work full-time from home or another non-Target location, without a desk at a Target location, and may travel to headquarters up to four times a year. Hybrid team members may work remotely or onsite at a Target location depending on role, team, and daily tasks. Work duties must be performed within the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in UX, with a portfolio demonstrating strong design thinking and systems awareness.
• Proficiency in service design methods, such as journey mapping, ecosystem modeling, and service blueprinting.
• Experience working within cross-functional teams and navigating complexity.
• Ability to structure work, manage time, and independently deliver high-quality design.
• Skill with modern design and prototyping tools, such as Figma.
• Ability to use guest insights and business data to guide design decisions.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining work clearly and collaborating effectively with non-design stakeholders.
• Ability to ask thoughtful questions, engage with ambiguity, and design inclusive, scalable experiences.
• A portfolio showcasing end-to-end design work from ideation through implementation; journey or service design artifacts; and clear rationale for decisions with examples of impact on the experience or business.

Nice To Haves

• A growth mindset and desire to learn, evolve, and improve experiences for guests, teams, and the business.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to UX strategy and vision for multi-touchpoint guest experiences.
• Create service design artifacts, including journey maps, blueprints, and storyboards, to align teams and identify opportunities.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, marketing, and store operations partners to align on experience outcomes.
• Participate in design sprints and co-creation sessions to explore, prototype, and refine new concepts.
• Deliver design work across phases, from early journey concepts to mid-fidelity flows and wireframes.
• Apply qualitative and quantitative data to understand guest needs and prioritize opportunities.
• Maintain a high standard of craft, considering accessibility, interaction patterns, information architecture, and brand alignment.
• Contribute to a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and guest-first thinking within the immediate team.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Financial, education, and well-being benefits.

What This Job Offers

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