Lead UX Designer
Content + Source + Freshness • 11 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value role due to significant experience requirements, strong design influence, and the potential for impactful work on user experiences.
- Significant influence on user design and experience
- High growth potential in senior design roles
- Collaborative dynamic work environment
- Extensive experience requirement (10+ years)
Pros
- Engagement in high-impact design projects
- Strong potential for career growth in design
- Involvement with diverse and collaborative teams
Cons
- Requires extensive experience (10+ years)
- Potentially high-pressure environment
- Work-life balance may be challenging during peak projects
Who it's for
Senior/Lead • Hybrid
Good fit
- Experienced UX professionals
- Design leaders seeking impactful roles
- Individuals who thrive in cross-functional teams
Not recommended for
- New UX designers
- Candidates uncomfortable with high-pressure situations
- Those not willing to adapt to dynamic environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
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
