Lead Product Designer - Vendor Experience

The pay range is $126,600.00 - $227,900.00

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 Us:

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's vendor partner-facing tools are key to the company's success in helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. The Vendor Experience UX team is dedicated to creating and maintaining the systems that drive collaboration between internal and external partners, empowering them to deliver the brands and products our guests love.

About The Job:

As a Lead Product Designer on the Vendor Experience team, you will join a community of kind and highly skilled UX designers, content designers, service designers, accessibility experts and UX researchers. You'll benefit from robust onboarding, and personal and career development opportunities. In your day to day, you will partner closely with product, process, and engineering partners to develop new and emerging applications. You'll craft UX strategy, drive and facilitate product discovery through testing and research, sketch concepts, define interaction and visual design with the support of our design system, and build prototypes. You'll have access to internal users and vendor partners for remote research. You'll balance innovation with thoughtful iteration to drive great outcomes for our t eam m embers, vendor partners, our guests , and our business.

On our Vendor Experience team, we are reinventing our vendor-facing tools by uniting multiple systems and capa bilities with in a single, scalable platform . We are seeking a Lead Product Designer to lead design for the vendor platform homepage, global component s, and shared services . This role will partner closely with our design systems team and with other UXers in the vendor space in both the US and India to ensure consistency , clarity , and continuity . Additionally, you'll partner with a peer counterpart in our India office. If you fall in love with complex problems and excel in systems thinking , this is the job for you! Critical responsibilities include:

• Self-start to navigate a cross-functional team that is rapidly growing and evolving

• Facilitate collaborative sessions to build alignment and engage peers and partners in the design process

• Develop information architecture for the vendor platform using tree testing, card sorting, and taxonomy frameworks

• Pair user research and desk research to identify common patterns and ensure scalability in shared services

• Drive concepting, iteration , prototyping, and detailed design to explore and refine high quality experiences , while aligning peers, partners, leaders, and vendors to a shared vision

About You:

• 5-7 years' experience leading end to end design process, methods, and outputs using the skills listed above

• Experience leading cross-functional partners and more junior designers through the work at the scale of an entire product or initiative

• Proficiency in scalable interaction design for internal tools, including prototyping tools (i.e., in Figma) and working within a design system

• Excellent visual design skills

• Effectively use data and insights to set your direction and storytell your approach

• Skilled at navigating a corporate hierarchy and building relationships to influence decisions

• Exhibit a growth mindset, comfort finding direction within ambiguity and complexity

• Demonstrate strong design hygiene, including a reliance on critique, rigorous ideation, clear communication, and evidence-based decision making

The application process will include a series of interviews as well as a portfolio review with three case studies that showcase your design process from beginning to end, giving examples of the various skills described in this job posting . Please include a link to your online portfolio (may be different from what you present) and any required passwords with your application.

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].

Application deadline is : 01/31/2025
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