Lead UX Product Designer - Design Systems

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00

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 role

As a Lead UX Designer focusing on design systems, you'll be at the forefront of Target's evolving digital experience, shaping it for our team members and contributing to business growth. Our Design System is a multi-platform system used by our stores and supply chain design team to create engaging and consistent user experiences.

You will drive the evolution of the Design System, including multi-platform libraries, design tokens, versioning, governance, and accessibility, maximizing user adoption and reusability. You will define and deliver exceptionally high quality, usable design components that drive efficiency and consistency across end-to-end guest and employee facing experiences.

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. This role will join a team of passionate designers creating components and supporting partners across Target in creating robust, intuitive, and accessible experiences for our guests and team members.

Responsibilities

• Partner and collaborate with a cross functional team of designers, developers and product managers across teams to identify, prioritize, and create new design components that are reusable, responsive and accessible, leveraging these relationships to drive adoption of the design system
• Drive the creation of components and patterns in Figma, ensuring component consistency with code, Information Architecture, tokens alignment, definition of variants, auto-layout, proper utilization of plugins, version control, accessibility, and best practices
• Ensure the design assets your team creates maintains the highest of quality standards and are thoroughly documented with usage guidelines that connect and resonate with the teams using the design system
• Collaborate effectively with developers to maintain and create coded components that align to our design system
• Foster education, author training resources, and best practices to ensure a top-notch experience for teams adopting the design system
• Bring the latest insights, best practices and design patterns across industries and platforms
• Operate comfortably in agile environments within the parameters of sprints, helping the team prioritize work considering needs, resources and capacity
• Guide the design process, mentor, and coach other designers
• Hold design systems work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, visual design
• Build a network of relationships to enable your vision in service of our guest and team member experiences

About you

• 6+ years of experience in design systems as a senior or lead UX designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful design work building complex products with reusable components
• Advanced understanding of design systems and an ability to communicate its value to a large, complex organizations, including
• Advanced knowledge of Figma designing, governing, and scaling component libraries
• Ability to influence strategy by engaging and collaborating effectively with design, product, and engineering partners
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to articulate design decisions with logic and data
• An ability to evaluate and manage competing priorities and timelines
• Fluency in best practices for responsive design, accessible web, ios and android interfaces that meet WCAG Accessibility standards
• Fluency in best practices and process around governance and maintenance of large-scale design systems

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, 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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

Application deadline is : 07/17/2026

Skills

Agile Programming Methodologies, Android, Best Practices, Business Growth, Coaching, Communication Skills, Cross-Functional, Customer Acquisition, Customer Experience, Customer/Client Research, Design Patterns Programming Methodologies, Establish Priorities, Information Architecture, Large-Scale Systems, Logic Design, Mentoring, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Product Design, Product Development, Product Engineering, Quality Metrics, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Storytelling, Supply Chain, Technical/Engineering Design, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Web Client Plug-ins, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Web Design

About the Company

Target Corp

• The talent, commitment and diversity of our 375,000 team members worldwide contribute to our success.
• At Target, we provide the benefits, tools, resources and support that can help our team members reach their individual well-being goals.
• Every time we open our doors, we continue a commitment that’s been growing since the start: A brighter future for our team members, our communities and the world we live in. Target gives 5% of our profit to the community. That's over $4 million every week.

Find out how at Target.com/careers

Company Size

10,000 employees or more

Industry

Retail

Founded

1946

Website

https://corporate.target.com/