Lead UX Product Designer – Design Systems

• 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.