About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s
leading retailers.
Our purpose is to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. As a Lead
Product Designer you’ll bring that purpose to life across Target.com, the Target
app and more through the design of new retail experiences, evolution of existing
ones and by enriching the user experience of our enterprise applications which
today are the underlying factors of our Target’s business and strategies. You will
work closely with Product Owners and users on deep discovery work that informs
the iterative design of processes and UI that help guide users in Minneapolis and
India to create the best experience for Target’s guests and team members.
About you:
You thrive at the intersection of design craft and strategy. You’re a curious
person who falls in love with problems and enjoys iterating toward a solution.
You’re passionate about making an impact and effectively connect data insights,
business goals and users’ needs to set your direction. You present work clearly
and effectively to educate others and gain support. You value design that is
welcoming, inspiring and simple.
As a Lead Product Designer, you’ll...
• Own the full design process, from early discovery and testing to asset
delivery and pixel-tweaking with engineers
• Design flows that are intuitive, elegant and provide value for our guests
while accounting for a wide variety of scenarios
• Leverage data, business and internal users’ needs to inform and advocate
for your direction
• Have full ownership and match the global standards of experience for
enterprise applications used by team members at headquarters offices.
• Apply Lean UX with an Information Architect lens
• Define/be an prominent contributor of Design processes/disciplines and
tools WoW around the agile methodologies with the Product and the
Engineering teams which help our design team members in efficiently
designing and delivering valuable solutions and experiences to our end-
users
• Make sense of raw data from various sources and proficiently
communicate the impact, foreseen challenges and next steps via data
visualization
• Proactively identify and pursue design opportunities within your team
• Gracefully articulate and defend design decisions to peers, partners
stakeholders and leaders
• Collaborate wildly well with others including Product designers, writers,
engineers, product managers, QA, accessibility team members, UX
researchers and partners in marketing
• Consult with other teams across Target(design systems, guest facing,
internal tools and accessibility) to ensure cohesiveness in the team
member experience
• Utilize & contribute to a pattern library maintained by our design systems
team
• Work well independently
• Be open to experimenting with new ways to work
• Gracefully give and receive critical design feedbacks
• Show ownership in the overall quality of design deliverables and
effectively guide the design efforts of other product designers by helping
and mentoring them
• Evolve as an SME in your product space with the help of business
partnering, prioritising, communicating, directing and also behold a
broader level vision of the overall Big picture
Minimum requirements:
• 10+ years of visual and interaction design experience
• A portfolio featuring digital design work enclosing in-depth case studies
and clean/modern design thought process
• Experience shipping digital products (web, apps or software) and
Customer facing portals/ modules in preferably in retail domain
• Demonstrated expertise with modern design, prototyping and
collaboration tools (such as Figma and Miro)
• Awareness of data and research methodologies and ability to conduct or
partner with research experts
• Proficiency in building metric-based-apps through data visualization
Excellent collaboration and influential skills
• Able to work well in a large organization with many partners
• Able to articulate and defend design decisions with grace, logic and data
• Able to translate technical requirements into simple, engaging designs
• Track record of leading design on significant projects involving