sr product designer - design systems

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.

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 Sr UX Designer within our Design Systems Team, you’ll be at the forefront of Target’s evolving digital experience, shaping it for our guests and contributing to business growth. Our Design System is a multi-platform system used by Target product teams to create engaging and consistent user experiences. You will drive the evolution of the Target 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.

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 experience in design systems as a senior UX designer with a strong portfolio showcasing successful design work building complex products with reusable components

You thrive at the intersection of design strategy, scaled solutions, and craft

Expert skills in UX and product design in complex environments, as well as structuring and planning work, and owning the design process

Advanced proficiency in product design and prototyping tools (i.e. Figma)

Advanced strategic problem-solving, systems thinking, and collaboration skills

Advanced understanding of design systems and an ability to communicate its value to a large, complex organizations

Proficient best practices for responsive design, accessible web, ios and android interfaces that meet WCAG Accessibility standards

You are an expert in communicating how design systems connects to, serves, and improves business outcomes

Exhibit a growth mindset