Lead UX Designer, Emerging Experiences

The pay range is $128,000.00 - $231,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About Target: 

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

Target UX is a group of design, content, research, and accessibility practitioners and experts, with a passion for improving and innovating our digital experiences for Target’s guests, team members, and partners. Here, we pride ourselves on designing tangible, inspiring, and impactful solutions that serve all aspects of our business– and being a part of the team means you will play a critical role for Target’s digital experience by increasing ease, simplicity, value, and delight for every touchpoint.  

About the team 

The Emerging Experiences team focuses on future-forward guest experiences that are seamless, inspiring, and full of possibility. We imagine what’s next for Target’s digital and physical touchpoints—and bring those ideas to life through immersive, high-fidelity storytelling.  

This team works across the ecosystem—collaborating with product, engineering, brand, stores, and enterprise strategy—to prototype the future and make it real. We're here to create clarity in complexity. At Target, design isn’t just how something works—it’s how it feels. It’s how we bring joy to everyday life, through moments of clarity, emotion, and care. 

About the role:  

As a Lead Product Designer within our Emerging Experience team you’ll be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and contributing to business growth. You’ll bring ideas to life through interactive prototypes and storytelling. You’ll contribute to UX sprints and future-visioning efforts by designing thoughtful, high-quality prototypes that help teams explore what’s possible and align around what matters.

You’ll apply your creative and technical skills to test assumptions, express ideas with emotional clarity, and support the delivery of best-in-class experiences for our guests. You’ll work within a team environment that values experimentation, inclusivity, and care for both the work and the people doing it.

As a Lead on the Target UX team 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.

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 

About you:  

• 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 

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs.  A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.  A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.  

Application deadline is : 03/22/2026